The Japanese woman set a record earnings in 2019. Never had a sportswoman made so much money in a year.
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Naomi Osaka won’t forget 2019 anytime soon.
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22-year-old Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka, winner of two Grand Slam tournaments, became the highest-paid sportswoman in history in 2019 with $ 37.4 million (36.4 million francs) in revenue, dethroning Serena Williams, said Friday the magazine “Forbes”.
The two athletes break the record for the Russian Maria Sharapova, five-time Grand Slam winner who retired in February and pocketed $ 29.7 million (28.9 million francs) in 2015. “For people in – outside the tennis world, Osaka is a fairly new face with a great story, “said David Carter, professor of sports business at the University of South Carolina, for” Forbes “.
Global sports marketing icon
“In addition to that, she is young and has a double culture (her father was born in Haiti and her mother is Japanese), attributes that allow a greater number of young people to identify with her. The result is the emergence of a global sports marketing icon, ”said David Carter.
Naomi Osaka is in 29th place in the ranking of the 100 best paid athletes established by “Forbes”, four places ahead of the American Serena Williams and her 23 titles in Grand Slam, the female athlete with the highest salaries in the last four years.
The magazine also said that the list, which should be published entirely next week, had not counted two women since 2016.
((AFP)
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