Looking back at 2021, the Us "Forbes" magazine in the past year, after the income of female sports athletes in the past year, released the annual income ranking, following 2020, the American Japanese tennis genius Naomi Osaka reached the top for the second time, and the American star Serena Williams relegated to the second place. Naomi Osaka's total revenue in 2021 is a staggering $57.3 million, or about 360 million yuan, making her undoubtedly the richest woman in sports.
From 2005 to 2019, two women's tennis superstars Sharapova and Serena Williams monopolized the sports rich list, with the retirement of Sharapova, Serena Williams is old, the outside world has been mentally prepared for someone to replace their dominant position, but not many people think that the person who broke the monopoly is 24-year-old Naomi Osaka. In fiscal 2020, Naomi Osaka's total revenue was a record 37.4 million US dollars, after the previous high of 29.7 million US dollars for Sharapova. We all know that in 2020, due to the impact of the epidemic, tennis events have been suspended for a period of time, but even so, Naomi Osaka still created a record high in personal income, which shows how strong her ability to absorb money is.
After entering 2021, tennis matches returned to normal, and Naomi Osaka's personal performance was getting better and better, which allowed her income to climb further, reaching a staggering $57.3 million, even in the top 100 of the world sports income rankings. Despite this, Naomi Osaka's popularity is not high, and many people who do not pay attention to tennis also know Federer, Nadal, Sava, Serena, Serena, and other tennis superstars. But if you ask who Naomi Osaka is, I believe many people don't know, and you can only judge her by her name that she is Japanese.
In fact, Naomi Osaka's father was from Haiti and later moved to the United States, and her mother was Japanese. Therefore, Naomi Osaka is a mixed-race child. When she was 3 years old, Naomi Osaka moved to the United States with her father and began to contact the game of tennis, the tennis foundation in the United States is very good, but the competition is also fierce, her father thinks that Osaka Naomi may not be able to get ahead, so he proposed to let her return to Japan to develop. So in 2013, Naomi Osaka, who was less than 16 years old, returned to Japan, which turned out to be a turning point in her tennis career.
Tennis is a strong point in Europe and the United States, and the development of Asian countries is relatively weak, so the return of such a mixed-race athlete will inevitably cause a huge sensation. Naomi Osaka quickly became a commercial darling in Japan, and various endorsement advertisements rushed to cooperate with her, which allowed her to gain a lot of wealth that could only be earned by top celebrities at the beginning of her career. But it cannot be denied that Naomi Osaka is very talented in tennis, in 2016, at the age of 19, she broke through the top 40 in the world rankings, and won her first world championship of her career in 2018. In 2019, Naomi Osaka soared as fast as a rocket and successfully ascended to the world's number one throne, setting a record for an Asian female tennis player.
On the eve of last summer's Olympic Games, Naomi Osaka ushered in the second turning point in her career, choosing to play for the Japanese national team, thus winning the extreme favor of the Japanese people, and the major sponsors preferred to risk losses and sign contracts with her. Since then, although Naomi Osaka has stopped in the top 8 of the Olympic Games, in the past 2 years, she has won the Chinese Open, the US Open and the Australian Open consecutively, laying the foundation for the status of the world's top women's singles player, which has made her commercial influence not decrease but increase. There is no doubt that Naomi Osaka is already the most gold-sucking athlete in the world women's tennis world, which also makes her black boyfriend, who is 1 year younger, lose her work motivation and concentrate on accompanying her girlfriend to train and compete.