{"id":89225,"date":"2025-08-23T05:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T05:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/89225\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T05:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T05:08:09","slug":"coco-gauffs-enormous-tennis-pay-compared-to-novak-djokovic-and-carlos-alcaraz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/89225\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff’s enormous tennis pay compared to Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coco Gauff has become the highest-paid female athlete in the world, according to the latest Forbes Tennis Rich List, with four women in the top seven over the last 12 months<\/p>\n

00:01 ET, 23 Aug 2025Updated 00:01 ET, 23 Aug 2025<\/p>\n

\"CocoCoco Gauff is earning a serious amount of money(Image: Robert Prange, Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Coco Gauff, the world’s highest-paid female athlete<\/a>, is now out-earning Novak Djokovic<\/a>, according to the latest Forbes Tennis Rich List.<\/p>\n

With four women in the top seven earners over the past 12 months, the list comes just before the US Open<\/a> kicks off this weekend. Carlos Alcaraz holds onto his title as the world’s best-paid tennis player, raking in an estimated $48.3M over the past year before taxes and agent fees.<\/p>\n

However, his biggest on-court rival, Jannik Sinner, has narrowed the gap after the Wimbledon champion’s earnings increased by $26.6M to $47.3M.<\/p>\n

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Interestingly, the Italian won more money on court ($20.3M) than the Spaniard ($13.3M) this year.<\/p>\n

French Open champion Gauff ranks third – and is the top woman at only 21 years old – with $37M, including $25M from off-court earnings.<\/p>\n

The American sensation has lucrative sponsorship deals with Bose and New Balance and has invested in the women’s professional three-on-three basketball league Unrivaled.<\/p>\n

Despite Djokovic’s impressive career on-court earnings of $188,934,053, the Serbian superstar falls to fourth place behind Gauff this year, having won only $4.6M.<\/p>\n

\"2025Novak Djokovic has fallen below Coco Gauff on the Forbes Rich List(Image: Getty)<\/p>\n

Aryna Sabalenka, Qinwen Zheng, and Iga Swiatek also make it into the top seven, with the top ten male and female players combined earning a total of $285M between them.<\/p>\n

This figure is a drop from the $343M set in 2020 when tennis legends Roger Federer, Rafa Nadal, and Serena Williams earned $106.3M, $40M, and $36M respectively.<\/p>\n

According to Forbes<\/a>, Federer has joined the exclusive billionaire club, becoming only the seventh athlete to do so, thanks to a significant increase in the value of his minority stake in Swiss footwear and apparel brand On.<\/p>\n

The other members of this elite group are soccer stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, NBA player LeBron James, golfers Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, and boxing champion Floyd Mayweather.<\/p>\n

British tennis sensation Emma Raducanu tied for sixth place among female athletes on the Forbes list last year with earnings of $12.9M – the same as Naomi Osaka. This included $12M in endorsements for the British No. 1 through sponsorship deals with major brands such as Nike, Christian Dior, Tiffany & Co, and Porsche. So far this year, World No. 35 Raducanu has earned $1.1M on court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff has become the highest-paid female athlete in the world, according to the latest Forbes Tennis Rich…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,18937,3592,85,747,12741],"class_list":{"0":"post-89225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-coco-gauff","11":"tag-novak-djokovic","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-us-open-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89225","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=89225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}