Being a female tennis star pays off big.
Confirmation with the ranking established by Forbes, a benchmark in the field which calculates all the earnings of athletes including, salaries, premiums and bonuses recorded on the sporting level, but also an estimate of advertising and marketing earnings.
Seven of the top 10 athletes are tennis players.
With income estimated at 51.1 million dollars (about 48 million euros) this year, the Japanese Naomi Osaka, 25, who has fallen to 42nd place in the world, is nevertheless considered by the American magazine as the highest paid sportswoman. in 2022. The freshly retired Serena Williams is his runner-up with 41.3 million dollars (38.1 million euros).
The 19-year-old Chinese Eileen Gu, double Olympic champion in freestyle skiing (big air and half-pipe) at the Olympic Games