The world's most well-known rich list is the Forbes rich list, and the sports industry also has its own rich list, recently, the 2022 global women's sports rich list was released, it instantly burst the Internet, causing heated discussions among the majority of sports fans.
Let's take a look at who are the top 10 female sports athletes. In first place is Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka, who earned $52 million in 2022, which surprised fans, after all, she is $17 million more than the second-place American tennis star Williams Jr.'s $35 million, which is a big difference.
In third place is Raducanu, in fourth place is Gu Ailing with $23 million, in fifth place is American gymnastics legend Biles, in sixth place is South Korean female golfer Ko Jinrong, and Swiatek, currently the world's No. 1 in women's tennis, is only 7th on this list, earning about $5.6 million. The bottom three on this list are Gauff, Barty and Fernandez. Careful netizens found that among the top 10 female athletes in this ranking, in addition to Gu Ailing is a skier, Biers is a gymnast, Gao Zhenrong is a golfer, and the remaining 7 people are all tennis players without exception, which also makes people sigh that "tennis players are too good at absorbing gold."
Naomi Osaka, number one, is a Japanese person who may not be well known to us Chinese sports fans, but her career is also very legendary. She is Japan's most famous tennis player, winning her first WTA women's singles title at the 2018 BNP Paribas Open, and a year later she was crowned Australian Open women's singles champion at the Australian Open. She was not only the youngest Australian Open champion at the time, but also set a new record, becoming the first Asian player in history to reach the number one position in the world singles.
In this list, we are most familiar with Gu Ailing, Gu Ailing entered this list, but also for Chinese female athletes to raise their eyebrows, Gu Ailing in this year's Winter Olympics, as a Chinese athlete to compete, and achieved two gold and one silver good results, in one fell swoop fame, and then with her own advantages to receive a lot of commercial endorsements, now she is only 19 years old, her future has unlimited possibilities, perhaps next year's list, Gu Ailing ranked higher.