Naomi Osaka is allowed according to the American business magazine Forbes call the highest paid female athlete in the world. The two-time Grand Slam winner replaces Serena Williams as number one on the list.
According to Forbes In the last 12 months, the only 22-year-old Osaka has earned $ 37.4 million (about EUR 34.3 million) in prize money and other earnings. With that, she raised 1.4 million dollars more than the 38-year-old Williams, who has been the highest paid female athlete for the past four years.
The top tennis players both broke the record that was held by Maria Sharapova. The Russian earned $ 29.7 million in 2015, and no one passed it until this year. Since 1990, then Forbes began calculating incomes, the highest rank in the ranking is occupied by a tennis player.
On the list of women and men, Osaka occupies 29th place, while Williams occupies 33rd position. It is the first time since 2016 that two women are in the top hundred highest paid athletes in the world. The full list will be released next week.
Osaka, who defeated 23-time Grand Slam winner Williams in the controversial US Open final of 2018, is not going through the best period of her still early career: her last tournament win dates from January 2019, when she won the Australian Open.
In the four Grand Slam tournaments that Osaka played after that, she never reached the quarter finals. Due to the corona crisis, Osaka was only on the track eight times this year. The tennis season has been stopping since March and anyway until July 31.
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