The world’s highest-paid female athletes 2024
Explore the 2024 Forbes ranking, spotlighting the top-earning female athletes and featuring influential women in tennis, soccer, basketball and more.
Tennis
These billionaire daughters just advanced to the US Open quarterfinals
The tournament’s remaining competitors will feature the daughters of an oil magnate and a former Citigroup vice president.
The world’s ten highest-paid tennis players 2024
Novak Djokovic got his Olympic gold, but he isn’t number one among the top 10 players, who collectively earned $246 million over the last 12 months.
Love and Money: Why the girlfriends of top tennis players are making millions
Paige Lorenze, Morgan Riddle, Ayan Broomfield and others dating tennis pros are signing up as many sponsorship deals as their romantic doubles partners. Inside the lucrative racket that advertisers can’t resist.
World No.1 Jannik Sinner tests positive for steroids—but probe finds it was unintentional
The Forbes 30 Under 30 alumnus became the first Italian to be named the world’s top-ranked tennis player earlier this year.
Djokovic beats Alcaraz for Olympic gold – in battle of world’s top-paid tennis stars
In Sunday’s gold medal match Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz became the youngest player to be in the men’s singles finals since 1988, while Serbia’s Novak Djokovic was the oldest player ever in a tennis singles final.
Netflix will host live tennis match between Nadal and Alcaraz
The Spaniards will face off live on Netflix in March.
Coco Gauff made $3 million with her U.S. Open win. The real riches will soon follow
With her first Grand Slam victory, the 19-year-old American phenom is poised to cash in on her tennis success—and winning personality.
Novak Djokovic wins US Open—surpassing Serena Williams’ modern Grand Slam record
Novak Djokovic and Coco Gauff won the men’s and women’s U.S. Open titles, respectively, in New York this weekend.
Roger Federer-backed shoe brand on takes a big swing at tennis
With $1 billion in sales and a stable of players that includes No. 1-ranked Iga Swiatek and young American star Ben Shelton, the surging Swiss running shoe company wants to become a tennis powerhouse. But first, they need a sneaker.