{"id":425233,"date":"2025-12-05T00:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T00:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/425233\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T00:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T00:09:10","slug":"gauff-is-the-highest-paid-female-athlete-for-third-straight-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/425233\/","title":{"rendered":"Gauff is the highest-paid female athlete for third straight year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sportico has released its annual list of the highest-paid female athletes<\/a>, and tennis players again populated the majority of it, most notably at the top.<\/p>\n

Two-thirds of the top 15 earners play on the Hologic WTA Tour, including the three highest-paid athletes.<\/p>\n

In determining earnings, Sportico factored in prize money, salaries, bonuses and endorsements.\u00a0<\/p>\n

World No. 2 Coco Gauff, who earlier this week was selected to Forbes’ prestigious 30 Under 30 list<\/a>, was the highest earner for the third consecutive year, bringing in an estimated $31 million. A shade under $8 million was earned on the court, and the rest came from lucrative endorsement deals, including partnerships with New Balance, Mercedes-Benz, Rolex, Head, Bose, Baker Tilly and Fanatics, among others.<\/p>\n

Gauff barely edged World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, who came in second with an estimated $30 million. Half of that came from prize money, including a record $5 million from her second consecutive US Open title, and the other half was earned through endorsement deals with such brands as Nike, Wilson, Whoop and Audemars Piguet.<\/p>\n

Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek came in third with $23.1 million ($10.1 million in prize money, $13 million in endorsements).\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The other tennis players in the top 10 include Qinwen Zheng ($20.6 million) — who earned just $1.6 million in prize money but brought home $19 million in endorsements — Australian Open champion Madison Keys ($13.4 million), WTA Finals champion Elena Rybakina ($12.6 million) and four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka ($12.5 million).<\/p>\n

Rybakina, who earned $8.6 million in prize money and $4 million in endorsements, was buoyed by the $5.23 million WTA Finals payout, the largest in the history of women’s sports.<\/p>\n

Amanda Anisimova, who made two major finals in 2025, cracked the list with $10.8 million, just ahead of countrywoman Jessica Pegula, who earned $10.5 million.<\/p>\n

And returning to the top 15 was Venus Williams, who only earned $219,000 over the course of three tournaments, but added a healthy $10 million in endorsements.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The non-tennis players who made Sportico’s list were freestyle skier Eileen Gu ($23 million), WNBA star Caitlin Clark ($16.1 million), golfer Nelly Korda ($13.8 million), legendary gymnast Simone Biles ($11 million) and golfer Jeeno Thitikul ($10.1 million).<\/p>\n

No player on the list earned less than $10.1 million in 2025.<\/p>\n

To check out the full rankings, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sportico has released its annual list of the highest-paid female athletes, and tennis players again populated the majority…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":425234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[62,1464,4063,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-425233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-text","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115664058039472780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}