Sabalenka wears custom Material Good necklace at Roland Garros

Aryna Sabalenka took high jewelry where it rarely gets to go: onto the red clay at Roland Garros, in a custom three-strand Material Good necklace worn with her Nike kit. The piece was built around more than 200 carats of garnets and 23 carats of diamonds, a weighty combination that still had to hold up in motion, not just under arena lights.

That matters because Material Good did not design the look as a static trophy piece. The brand says Sabalenka is its first-ever Jewelry Ambassador, and it has already dressed her in custom MG Atelier designs at the Australian Open in Melbourne before bringing the relationship to Paris. The partnership is framed around fearless self-expression and craftsmanship, but the real test is whether fine jewelry can move with an athlete through a Grand Slam match and still read as elegant rather than fragile.

Material Good’s French Open 2026 high-jewelry suite was inspired by the legendary red clay courts of Stade Roland Garros, and the brand’s own product pages describe the pieces as engineered for fluid movement and lightweight wear. That language is more than marketing polish. On a court, where every shift, sprint and serve depends on freedom of movement, a necklace cannot behave like red-carpet costume. It has to sit close, stack cleanly and avoid looking theatrical when the match starts.

The numbers behind the Terre Rouge pieces make the construction clearer. One necklace is listed with 81.64 total carats of garnets and 8.58 total carats of white diamonds. Another carries 49.16 carats of garnets and 4.75 carats of brilliant white diamonds. Coverage also noted matching garnet-and-diamond earrings, reinforcing the idea that the set was built as a coordinated performance look rather than a single statement jewel.

Sabalenka wore the necklace set while defeating Jessica Bouzas Maneiro 6-4, 6-2 in the first round of the 2026 French Open on May 26, 2026. The timing gave the jewelry extra visibility, coming as players continue to press questions of prize money and revenue share at the Grand Slams. For jewelers, that kind of exposure may now be more valuable than a traditional red-carpet placement: it is live, repeated, and attached to a star who is seen in motion, under pressure, and at full attention.