{"id":324016,"date":"2025-12-04T03:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324016\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T03:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:23:09","slug":"highest-paid-women-in-sport-tennis-claims-10-of-the-top-15-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324016\/","title":{"rendered":"Highest-paid women in sport: Tennis claims 10 of the top-15 spots"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new update on the ranking of the world’s highest-paid female athletes in 2025 once again features tennis players as leaders in terms of monetary prizes, including both on-court earnings and endorsements. Ten tennis players are included in the top-15, led by Coco Gauff<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The top-3 in earnings precisely matches the top-3 of the WTA ranking, and all owe a large part of their income to endorsements with brands outside the court. In this sense, the leader is American Coco Gauff, who accumulated $8 million in on-court earnings for the year, plus another $23 million from off-court deals, as part of her agreements with brands like New Balance, Rolex, and Emirates Airlines.<\/p>\n

She is followed by World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka<\/a>, who earned $15 million on the court \u2013 the female athlete who earned the most money strictly from sports prize money \u2013 and added another $15 million from endorsements. Her sponsors include Nike, Wilson, Electrolit, and IM8 (a vitamin supplement owned by former footballer David Beckham).Third place goes to Poland’s Iga Swiatek<\/a> (World No. 2 in the WTA Ranking), who earned just over $10 million on the court \u2013 about 30% solely from her Wimbledon title \u2013 and another $13 million in sponsorships, including On, Porsche, Rolex, Visa, Infosys, Lanc\u00f4me, and Lego.Zheng Qinwen break the Top 5<\/p>\n

Only in 4th place do athletes outside the tennis world appear. American skier Eileen Gu \u2013 a gold medalist at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games \u2013 reached $23 million, just behind \u015awi\u0105tek’s $23.1 million.<\/p>\n

Further back is China’s Zheng Qinwen to complete the top-5. Despite being out of competition for several months and earning ‘only’ $1.5 million in on-court winnings, she manages to exceed the $20 million barrier thanks to her sponsors. The Tokyo 2024 gold medalist reaches 5th place due to her agreements with brands like Nike, Rolex, Dior, Audi, and Gatorade.<\/p>\n

Following Zheng are WNBA basketball player Caitlin Clark with $16 million and golfer Nelly Korda \u2013 sister of ATP player Sebastian Korda \u2013 who reaches $13.8 million.<\/p>\n

Rybakina bucks the trend in endorsement-heavy top 10<\/p>\n

The rest of the top-10 is dominated by another high-profile tennis player. The 2025 Australian Open champion Madison Keys takes 8th place with $13.4 million, followed by Elena Rybakina with $12.6 million. The Kazakh player is a unique case in the ranking, being the only one in the top-10 with more prize money earned on the court ($8.6m) than from endorsements.<\/p>\n

Naomi Osaka joins in 10th place with $12.5 million in earnings \u2013 $10 million of which came from endorsements. The 4-time major champion pushed gymnast Simone Biles out of the top-10, who did not earn money in competitions this year and was left with $11 million in earnings solely from endorsements.<\/p>\n

The other tennis players who complete the ranking are Amanda Anisimova, Jessica Pegula, and Venus Williams, all above the $10 million earnings mark.<\/p>\n

AthleteSalary\/Winnings\u00a0EndorsementsTotal1Coco Gauff$8M$23M$31M2Aryna Sabalenka$15M$15M$30M3Iga Swiatek$10.1M$13M$23.1M4Eileen Gu (ski)$20K$23M$23M5Zheng Qinwen$1.6M$19M$20.6M6Caitlin Clark (basketball)$114K$16M$16.1M7Nelly Korda (golf)$2.8M$11M$13.8M8Madison Keys$4.4M$9M$13.4M9Elena Rybakina\u00a0$8.6M$4M$12.6M10Naomi Osaka$2.5M$10M$12.5M11Simone Biles (artistic gymnastics)-$11M$11M12Amanda Anisimova$7.3M$3.5M$10.8M13Jessica Pegula$5.5M$5M$10.5M14Venus Williams$219K$10M$10.2M15Jeeno Thitikul (golf)$7.6M$2.5M$10.1M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new update on the ranking of the world’s highest-paid female athletes in 2025 once again features tennis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[6005,49,48,4305,616,82,593,4306],"class_list":["post-324016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-aryna-sabalenka","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-coco-gauff","tag-iga-swiatek","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-wta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}