Iga Swiateknumber 1 in the world, is the athlete with the most economic income in 2023, the year in which He earned $23.9 million, 9.9 of them on the track and 14 off it.
Forbes list of the twenty highest paid athletes of course with twelve tennis players, led by the winner of the last WTA finals and five other tournaments in 2023, including Roland Garros. Visa and Infosys are some of its sponsors.
The surprising number two in the ranking is Chinese freestyle skier Eileen Gu, who earned 22.1 million.. Gu, an American model who competes for the Asian country, is a publicity machine. In the competition he won 0.1 million, but for his contracts with different brands (Louis Vuitton, Victoria’s Secret…) he received 22 million.
Eight other 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 of them are not in court because she is on maternity leave)Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka (14.7), Americans Jessica Pegula (12.5) and Venus Williams (12.2, despite very few tournaments), Kazakh Elena Rybajina (9.5) and Canadian Leylah Fernandez (8.8). .
In eleventh place they tied, With 8.2 million dollars in earnings, golfer Nelly Korda and, in her retirement year, soccer player Megan Rapinoe, both American.
His countrymen are basketball players Candance Parker and soccer player Alex Morgan were thirteenth and fourteenth with 8.1 million and 7.8 million.
Chinese tennis player Qinwen Zheng, who earned 7.2 million, was fifteenth and American gymnast Simone Biles and Indian badminton player PV Sindhu share the sixteenth position, with 7.1 million.
The Tunisian tennis player closes the list of twenty athletes with the most income Ounce Jabeur (5.7)Canadian golfer Brooke Henderson (5.4) and Czech tennis player Marketa Vondrousova (5.2 million).
The numbers are calculated before paying taxes and commissions to agents.
The youngest on the list is Coco Gauff, 19 years oldand the oldest is Venus Williams, who is 43.
Source: La Verdad
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