{"id":324727,"date":"2025-12-04T11:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324727\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T11:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:43:10","slug":"highest-paid-female-athletes-2025-nelly-korda-jeeno-thitikul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324727\/","title":{"rendered":"Highest-Paid Female Athletes 2025: Nelly Korda & Jeeno Thitikul"},"content":{"rendered":"

Both Nelly Korda<\/a> and Jeeno Thitikul<\/a> have made the top 15 of the world’s highest-paid female athletes in 2025.<\/p>\n

The list, compiled by Sportico<\/a>, includes prize money and salary earnings along with estimates of endorsement deals and sponsor bonuses from industry experts and insiders.<\/p>\n

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And it shows there is money to be made at the very top end of women’s golf, with Korda cracking the top 10 despite a winless season<\/a> and Thitikul scraping in at 15 thanks to a bumper late-season bonus.<\/p>\n

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Finishing as the seventh-best earner in female sports is an extra bonus to end the year for Korda, with the 27-year-old recently annoucing her engagement.<\/a><\/p>\n

Korda pocketed a total of $13.8 million according to Sportico, but with a whopping $11m of that coming from endorsement deals – with $2.8m in prize money after finishing the season without a win.<\/p>\n

She claimed seven victories in 2024<\/a> and earned slightly more in total with $14.4m, thanks to $4.4m in prize money, but in 2025 she has had a boost in off-course earnings.<\/p>\n

As the biggest name in women’s golf, Korda has an army of sponsors, and endorsement deals with Nike, TaylorMade and T-Mobile among others helped her rise one place in the rankings.<\/p>\n

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Korda is just one place behind WNBA sensation Caitlin Clark, who has a whopping $16m in endorsement deals but after an injury-hit season has minimal on-court earnings.<\/p>\n

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Women’s World No.1 Thitikul has dropped down three places from her 2024 ranking of 12th, but has increased her earnings from $9.1m to $10.1m.<\/a><\/p>\n

Most of her wealth comes from on the course, with $7.6m in prize money largely thanks to again winning the lucrative CME Group Tour Championship<\/a> for the second year running.<\/p>\n

Thitikul won $4m alone just for her victory at Tiburon Golf Club, and added a further $2.5m in endorsement deals in 2025.<\/p>\n

Female tennis players again dominate the list, with Coco Gauff retaining her position as the highest paid woman in sport with $31m banked for 2025.<\/p>\n

Aryna Sabalenka came in second despite earning far more on the court in 2025 ($15m) but Gauff’s superior endorsement deals meant she finished just in front.<\/p>\n

Lydia Ko made the top 15 last year but not this year, with just two female golfers in the list this time around.<\/p>\n

Highest-paid female athletes in 2025<\/p>\n

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Name<\/p>\n

Sport<\/p>\n

Winnings\/Deals<\/p>\n

Total<\/p>\n

1. Coco Gauff<\/p>\n

Tennis<\/p>\n

$8m \/ $23m<\/p>\n

$31m<\/p>\n

2. Aryna Sabalenka<\/p>\n

Tennis<\/p>\n

$15m \/ $15m<\/p>\n

$30m<\/p>\n

3. Iga Swiatek<\/p>\n

Tennis<\/p>\n

$10.1 \/ $13m<\/p>\n

$23.1m<\/p>\n

4. Eileen Gu<\/p>\n

Skiing<\/p>\n

$20K \/ $23m<\/p>\n

$23m<\/p>\n

5. Zheng Qinwen<\/p>\n

Tennis<\/p>\n

$1.6m \/ $19m<\/p>\n

$20.6m<\/p>\n

6. Caitlin Clark<\/p>\n

WNBA<\/p>\n

$114K \/ $16m<\/p>\n

$16.1m<\/p>\n

7. Nelly Korda<\/p>\n

Golf<\/p>\n

$2.8m \/ $11m<\/p>\n

$13.8m<\/p>\n

8. Madison Keys<\/p>\n

Tennis<\/p>\n

$4.4m \/ $9m<\/p>\n

$13.4m<\/p>\n

9. Elena Rybakina<\/p>\n

Tennis<\/p>\n

$8.6m \/ $4m<\/p>\n

$12.6m<\/p>\n

10. Naomi Osaka<\/p>\n

Tennis<\/p>\n

$2.5m \/ $10m<\/p>\n

$12.5m<\/p>\n

11. Simone Biles<\/p>\n

Gymnastics<\/p>\n

$0 \/ $11m<\/p>\n

$11m<\/p>\n

12. Amanda Anisimova<\/p>\n

Tennis<\/p>\n

$7.3m \/ $3.5m<\/p>\n

$10.8m<\/p>\n

13. Jessica Pagula<\/p>\n

Tennis<\/p>\n

$5.5m \/ $5m<\/p>\n

$10.5m<\/p>\n

14. Venus WIlliams<\/p>\n

Tennis<\/p>\n

$219K \/ $10m<\/p>\n

$10.2m<\/p>\n

15. Jeeno Thitikul<\/p>\n

Golf<\/p>\n

$7.6m \/ $2.5m<\/p>\n

$10.1m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both Nelly Korda and Jeeno Thitikul have made the top 15 of the world’s highest-paid female athletes in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-324727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324727","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=324727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}