{"id":791342,"date":"2026-07-10T12:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/791342\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T12:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:36:08","slug":"rybakina-among-worlds-top-10-highest-paid-tennis-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/791342\/","title":{"rendered":"Rybakina Among World\u2019s Top 10 Highest-Paid Tennis Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALMATY \u2013 Kazakhstan\u2019s top-ranked tennis player Elena Rybakina has been named one of the world\u2019s 10 highest-paid tennis players in 2026, according to the latest annual rankings compiled by the sports business publication Sportico.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/astanatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-255.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-117165\" class=\" wp-image-117165\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-255-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"182\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-117165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elena Rybakina. Photo credit: Kazakhstan Tennis Federation.<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina ranked 10th with $16.3 million in total earnings over the 12 months from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026. Her income included $11.3 million in on-court prize money and $5 million from endorsement deals and other off-court activities.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish star Carlos Alcaraz topped the list with $62.9 million in total earnings, followed by Italy\u2019s Jannik Sinner with $59 million. American Coco Gauff ranked third with $40.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>The remainder of the top 10 includes American tennis legend Serena Williams, Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, Serbian Novak Djokovic, China\u2019s Zheng Qinwen, Poland\u2019s Iga \u015awi\u0105tek, and Germany\u2019s Alexander Zverev.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Sportico, the earnings estimates combine tournament prize money, including the ATP bonus pool, with off-court income from sponsorships, appearance fees, licensing agreements, royalties, memorabilia, media projects, and businesses linked to athletes\u2019 public profiles.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALMATY \u2013 Kazakhstan\u2019s top-ranked tennis player Elena Rybakina has been named one of the world\u2019s 10 highest-paid tennis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-791342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791342","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=791342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}