{"id":325492,"date":"2025-12-03T18:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/325492\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T18:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:37:10","slug":"who-are-the-top-earning-female-athletes-tennis-players-dominate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/325492\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are the top earning female athletes? Tennis players dominate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sportico dropped its list of the top earning women’s athletes<\/a> and, again, tennis players dominated. Ten of the top 15 earners in 2025 came from the sport, with Coco Gauff leading the way<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The American tennis phenom totaled $31 million, $23 million of which came from endorsements. Eileen Gu<\/a>, who has competed for China in the halfpipe, slopestyle and big air events since 2019, is the first non-tennis entry on the list. She has made nearly all of the her money — $23 million — off endorsements.<\/p>\n

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Two golfers, one gymnast and one basketball player make up the rest of the list.<\/p>\n

Caitlin Clark<\/a> comes in sixth. The Indiana Fever guard’s lack of court time — she played only 13 games due to injuries — did not hurt her earning ability. Clark, who has numerous endorsement deals, including being a Nike signature athlete, made $16.1 million in 2025 with $16 million coming from those deals.<\/p>\n

Simone Biles<\/a> is also continuing to earn big despite making no money from competitions in 2025. The gymnast scored $11 million in endorsements.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the top 15, according to Sportico:<\/p>\n

Rank<\/p>\n

Name<\/p>\n

Salary\/winnings<\/p>\n

Endorsements<\/p>\n

Total<\/p>\n

Coco Gauff<\/p>\n

$8M<\/p>\n

$23M<\/p>\n

$31M<\/p>\n

Aryna Sabalenka<\/p>\n

$15M<\/p>\n

$15M<\/p>\n

$30M<\/p>\n

Iga Swiatek<\/p>\n

$10.1M<\/p>\n

$13M<\/p>\n

$23.1M<\/p>\n

Eileen Gu<\/p>\n

$20,000<\/p>\n

$23M<\/p>\n

$23M<\/p>\n

Zheng Qinwen<\/p>\n

$1.6M<\/p>\n

$19M<\/p>\n

$20.6M<\/p>\n

Caitlin Clark<\/p>\n

$119,000<\/p>\n

$16M<\/p>\n

$16.1M<\/p>\n

Nelly Korda<\/p>\n

$2.8M<\/p>\n

$11M<\/p>\n

$13.8M<\/p>\n

Madison Keys<\/p>\n

$4.4M<\/p>\n

$9M<\/p>\n

$13.4M<\/p>\n

Elena Rybakina<\/p>\n

$8.6M<\/p>\n

$4M<\/p>\n

$12.6M<\/p>\n

Naomi Osaka<\/p>\n

$2.5M<\/p>\n

$10M<\/p>\n

$12.5M<\/p>\n

Simone Biles<\/p>\n

$0<\/p>\n

$11M<\/p>\n

$11M<\/p>\n

Amanda Anisimova<\/p>\n

$7.3M<\/p>\n

$3.5M<\/p>\n

$10.8M<\/p>\n

Jessica Pegula<\/p>\n

$5.5M<\/p>\n

$5M<\/p>\n

$10.5M<\/p>\n

Venus Williams<\/p>\n

$219,000<\/p>\n

$10M<\/p>\n

$10.2M<\/p>\n

Jeeno Thitikul<\/p>\n

$7.6M<\/p>\n

$2.5M<\/p>\n

$10.1M<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Ranking top earning female athletes? Caitlin Clark, Simone Biles, more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sportico dropped its list of the top earning women’s athletes and, again, tennis players dominated. Ten of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,6554,18937,182781,81194,116139,10731,70702,182782,85,747,29759],"class_list":["post-325492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-coco-gauff","tag-eileen-gu","tag-endorsement-deals","tag-endorsements","tag-indiana-fever","tag-simone-biles","tag-sportico","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-players"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}