By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Thursday December 7, 2023
Coco Gauff grew to become a US Open champion in 2023 and, in response to Sportico, the 19-year-old American additionally out-earned all different feminine athletes.
The teenager wunderkind topped Sportico’s record of highest-paid feminine athletes for the primary time with an estimated annual earnings of $22.7 million.
There’s a new tennis 👑 on prime@CocoGauff is the highest-paid feminine athlete on this planet at $22.7m- ($16m of that are endorsements.)
For twenty years, the title of highest-paid feminine athlete has belonged to one in all a trio of tennis stars in @serenawilliams, @MariaSharapova… pic.twitter.com/KL1qDFekkN
— Sportico (@Sportico) December 6, 2023
Gauff earned $6.7 million in prize cash this yr, and added $16 million in endorsement earnings that comes from contracts along with her attire and racquet corporations, New Stability and Head, in addition to different mega offers with with the likes of Barilla pasta, Bose, UPS and Rolex.
Ladies’s tennis dominated the record of 20 high-powered feminine athletes, with 9 of the 20 personalities on the record coming from the WTA Tour.
Emma Raducanu ($16.2 million), Naomi Osaka ($15 million), Aryna Sabalenka, Elena Rybakina and Jessica Pegula ranked fourth by way of eighth on the record, respectively.
Rounding out the record had been former US Open runner-up Leylah Fernandez and Ons Jabeur.