Forbes: The highest paid sportswomen in 2022

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Forbes: The highest paid sportswomen in 2022

As every year, the famous magazine of economics and finance Forbes publishes the rankings relating to the richest and most earning people.

Among the lists published, there is also that relating to female athletes who, during 2022, have earned more. 

Candace Parker

In top ten there are four new entries compared to the 2021 ranking and in eleventh position we find Candace Parker (7.2 million dollars), basketball player of the Chicago Sky.

Minjee Lee – Golfer

The top ten opens with Minjee Lee, a golfer born in Perth, Australia, in 1996.

In 2022 Lee triumphed in the US Women Open, her second career major championship.

Jessica Pegula – Tennis player

The American tennis player in 2022 achieved all her best results in Grand Slam tournaments: quarterfinals in the Australian Open, Roland Garros.

US Open and the third round in Wimbledon. In addition, in October 2022 Jessica Pegula she got her best ranking, ranking third in the WTA rankings.

Simone Biles – Gymnast

Many of the young American gymnast’s earnings also come from sponsorships. Simone Biles is the queen of artistic gymnastics.

The American has won 4 Olympic golds (all in Rio de Janeiro in 2016), an Olympic silver (Tokyo 2020) and two bronzes (Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020).

Coco Gauff – Tennis player

First new entry in the 2022 rankings, Coco Gauff is the new promise of American tennis. Despite her very young age (she was born in 2004).

Coco has already won two WTA singles titles. For the first time, in 2022, she won the final of a Grand Slam tournament, specifically in Roland Garros.

Venus Williams – Tennis player

She has just announced that she will take part in the next edition of the Australian Open: Venus Williams does not intend to stop and continues to be part of the top ten of the highest paid sportswomen in the world.

Unlike her sister Serena, Venus said she had absolutely no intention of thinking about retirement.

Iga Swiatek – Tennis player

New entry in the Top Ten: the Polish Iga Swiatek.

The tennis player born in 2001 is the number one of the WTA rankings, thanks to the prestigious victories at Roland Garros and US Open.

Emma Raducanu – Tennis player

2022 was not a good year for Emma Raducanu, which fell to position 76 in the WTA rankings.

Despite this, the young athlete is considered one of the best tennis players around, to keep an eye on in the coming years.

Emma Raducanu in fact she is the only tennis player to have won the US Open (2021) starting from the qualifiers.

Eileen Gu – Skier ($20.1 million)

For the first time in the Top Ten, the Freestyle skier Eileen Gu ranks directly in third place in the ranking of the highest-paid athletes this year.

For Eileen, 2022 was a memorable year, thanks to the three medals won at the Olympic Games in Beijing: two golds (big air and halfpipe) and a silver (slopestyle).

Serena Williams – Tennis player

Serena Williams announced her retirement from professional career, but will go down in history as one of the best tennis players of all time.

In particular, throughout her career, Serena has amassed a wealth of over 260 million dollars.

These successes made her one of only two athletes, along with rival Maria Sharapova, to be included in the list of self-made women in America.

Naomi Osaka – Tennis player

The highest-paid sportswoman of 2022 according to Forbes is Naomi Osaka. Despite the last two difficult years, from a sporting and mental point of view.

she is is a symbol and an idol for many people and owes a good part of her earnings also to sponsorships and partnership with important brand.

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