The highest paid athletes in the world, Naomi Osaka wins

Women’s sport is growing exponentially and also at an economic level is making great strides. Companies begin to invest strongly, the sponsorships of high level are more and more. The business is still to be developed, but the conditions to soon compete with what revolves around men are all there.

As every year Forbes has compiled the ranking of the ten highest paid athletes on the planet. In the first places there are no surprises: tennis wins everything, proving that Richard Williams did well to put a racket in his daughters’ hands. It is really interesting to see who finished just below the podium.

The tennis player wins the gold medal Naomi Osaka. The Japanese, in 2021 alone, put in the bank the beauty of 57.3 million dollars, of which only 2.3 million it earned on the field. The rest all comes from sponsorships.

Behind her, the immortal Serena Williams, which has increased his already pharaonic fortune by another 45.9 million dollars. A step below is her sister Venus, with 11.3 million dollars.

And here then Simone Biles. The gymnast who made a lot of talk about herself for stopping in the middle of the Olympics, earned a whopping 10.1 million dollars, practically all thanks to extra-competitive activities.

Garbine Mukuruza e Jin Young Ko they are placed in fifth and sixth place respectively. The Spanish tennis player with Venezuelan citizenship with 8.8 million dollars, the South Korean golfer with 7.5.

Seventh PV Sindhu. The Indian badminton champion managed to put 7.2 million dollars in her current account, of which only 200,000 sweaty hitting the shuttlecock with the racket.