Female athletes earn half of the top ten tennis balls naomi Osaka leads the way

Source: Sports Weekly

After counting the total income on and off the court, Forbes announced the 2021 global female athlete income list, and the tennis project once again became the biggest winner, not only five out of the top ten were from tennis events, but also the top three were all covered by tennis!

The five are Naomi Osaka, Serena Williams and Serena Williams in the top three, as well as Muguruza in fifth place and Barty in eighth place. The top two have annual revenues of $57.3 million and $45.9 million, respectively, while the third place, Dawei, is "only" $11.3 million, and Muguruza and Barty are 8.8 million and 6.9 million, respectively, which is a very large gap, and Naomi Osaka and Serena Williams are far behind the others.

For the first two, most of their income is still from the sidelines, Osaka Naomi last year, although she won the fourth Grand Slam at the Australian Open, but the overall performance of the year was not good, the year-end ranking fell to 13th place, the annual bonus income was only 2.3 million US dollars, but the off-site income was as high as 55 million US dollars, which was largely due to the hosting of the Tokyo Olympic Games, as the ignition person Naomi Osaka, in the past year and a half, there have been more than a dozen brands of sponsorship.

In addition, Naomi Osaka has also flourished in the investment field in the past year, not only acquiring the equity of several companies, entering the NFT market, but also launching a skin care brand. Japanese nationality, long-term residence in the United States, so that Osaka Naomi sits in both major markets at the same time, coupled with the often appeared as an "opinion leader", there is never a lack of topics, have become an important reason why she has such a strong ability to absorb gold, others may not be able to replicate in a short time.

Compared with Naomi Osaka, Serena's results in the past year are even more dismal, the best result is only the Australian Open top four, the year-end ranking fell to 40 miles away, the annual bonus income is only 900,000, but her off-site income is still as high as 45 million, in this year in addition to the traditional brand sponsorship, Serena also entered the film and television industry in one fell swoop, serving as an executive producer in "King Richard", this film based on her father's life is still a hit in this year's Oscar season. Sister Dawei only won three games in 2021, and her off-field income mainly comes from appearances at various events, as well as individual clothing brands.

The income gap between the other two players is not as high as the top three, Spain's Muguruza ushered in the second spring of her career last year, she won the year-end finals for the first time, and the year-end ranking also reached the third place, in the 2021 season her bonus income is 2.8 million US dollars, although with its high-quality appearance is also favored by sponsors, but the 6 million US dollars of off-field income is only a fraction of Naomi Osaka. Barty, the only player of the five to earn more on the field, finished first last year for three consecutive years, winning five titles, including Wimbledon, with a full-year prize money of $3.9 million, but only $3 million off-court.

In other sports, gymnastics queen Byers ranked fourth, although she only won a bronze medal in the individual event of the Tokyo Olympics and earned only $100,000 in annual prize money, but her off-field income was still as high as $10 million. The other two top ten Americans are Tokyo Olympic golf champion Nellie Koda, who is now no. 1 in the world, and WNBA star Candice Parker, who are in ninth and tenth place with $5.9 million and $5.7 million, respectively.

The other two in the top ten are: South Korean golfer and now the world's second-ranked Ko Jin-young, and Indian badminton player and Tokyo Olympic runner-up Sindu, who ranked sixth and seventh with 7.50 and 7.2 million US dollars respectively, and they also have higher off-field income than on-field, mainly because they are super idols or even heroic figures in their respective countries, and the huge domestic consumer markets in Japan, South Korea and India make their ability to absorb money so strongly.