Forbes ranked Osaka, the Williamses, Biles and Muguruza among the 10 highest-paid female athletes

The Highest-Paid Female Athletes Score A Record $167 Million https://t.co/9aDqfisZCg

—Forbes (@Forbes) January 14,

Japanese Naomi Osaka, from 24 years old, fourteenth best tennis player in the world, heads this select list of female athletes at the end of last year with income of $45.3 million dollars, although of that amount, $50 million were the product of his multiple sponsorship contracts .

On the court, Osaka added $2.3 million dollars. The best prize came from winning the Australian Open last February, the fourth Grand Slam title in her career.

Another tennis player, the Spanish Garbiñe Muguruza, was the fifth athlete who obtained the most dividends in 2021 with $8.8 million dollars, of these $2.8 million for his performance in tournaments.

Muguruza, from 28 years old, she had an outstanding year by becoming the first Iberian to win the WTA Finals in November in the Mexican city of Guadalajara.

Ended the season in third place in the WTA ranking and off the field earned $6 million dollars.

At 2021, Muguruza added Jaguar and Nivea to its portfolio of brands, which joined others that had supported it for some time, such as Adidas and Babolat.

Tennis dominated the club of millionaire athletes in 2021 because behind Osaka and before Muguruza were the Williams sisters.

Serena Williams repeated and earned most of her income, $45 millions of dollars, from the payment of advertisers such as Nike, Gatorade and DirecTV.

In the field, the player of 40 years, received $900,000 dollars by participating in only six tournaments. In total closed 2021 with $45,9 million dollars.

Osaka and Serena Williams are the only women who appeared on the list of the 50 highest paid athletes in the world. The Japanese was in twelfth place and the American in 28.

Her older sister Venus, according to Forbes, joined 11,3 million dollars, of them derived from advertising and sponsorship contracts.

The gymnast Simone Biles was the fourth best on the Forbes list with income for 10,1 million dollars.

A detail that is not minor: $ millions of dollars entered your account for reasons other than your participation in sports competitions.

The other members of the Forbes ranking are the South Korean golfer Jin Young Ko, with $7.5 million dollars in sixth place; the Indian badminton player PV Sindhu, with $7.2 million dollars in the seventh, and the Australian tennis player Ashleigh Barty, $6.9 million dollars in the eighth.

They completed the ‘Club of the 10 millionaire athletes’ American golfer Nelly Korda, $5.9 million dollars in the ninth, and the American basketball player Candance Parker, with $5.7 million.

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