Polish tennis star Iga Swiatek, the world number one, was the female athlete to earn the most in 2023, the year in which she earned $23.9 million, of which 9.9 on the court and 14 off the court.
Forbes’ list of the 20 highest-paid athletes on the trail includes 12 tennis players, led by the winner of the last WTA Finals and five more tournaments in 2023, including Roland Garros.
Visa and Infosys are some of the sponsors.
The surprising number two on the rankings is Chinese freestyle skier Eileen Gu, who raised 22.1 million. Gu, an American model competing in the Asian country, is a publicity machine. In the competition he earned 0.1 million, but for his contracts with various brands (Louis Vuitton, Victoria’s Secret…) he received 22 million.
Another eight tennis players occupy the following places on the list: the American Coco Gauff (21.7 million), the British Emma Raducanu (15.2), the Japanese Naomi Osaka (15 million, all on the court because she was on maternity leave ), the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka (14.7), the Americans Jéssica Pegula (12.5) and Vênus Williams (12.2, although she has played few tournaments), the Kazakh Elena Rybajina (9.5) and the Canadian Leylah Fernández (8.8).
In eleventh place they are tied with the golfer with 8.2 million dollars in earnings Nelly Korda and in the year of her retirement the footballer Megan Rapino and the two Americans.
His compatriot is basketball player Candance Parker and football player Alex Morgan. With 8.1 million and 7.8 million they are in thirteenth and fourteenth place.
Chinese tennis player Qinwen Zheng, who earned 7.2 million, is fifteenth and the American gymnast shares sixteenth with Simone Biles and Indian badminton player PV Sindhu with 7.1 million.
The Tunisian tennis player completes the list of the twenty athletes with the most earnings: Over Jabeur (5.7), Canadian golfer Brooke Henderson (5.4) and Czech tennis player Marketa Vondrousova (5.2 million).
The values are calculated before taxes and commissions are paid to brokers.
The youngest on the list is Coco Gauff, 19, and the oldest is Venus Williams, 43.
Source: La Neta Neta
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