The list of the highest paid female athletes in 2022 was recently published. noami osaka Y Serena Williams captured the first and second position on the list respectively. Both athletes are known for their sheer determination to win in their sport and have fought incredible tennis battles against each other. Naomi has beaten the veteran two of the three times they have met. In recent times. The female athletes are sitting on the top of the mountain with their incredible performances and never give up the style of play. They are ruling the world of sport and have created quite a legacy for themselves. Are you curious to know about them and the rest of the people on the list? Let’s take a look at the 5 highest paid female athletes in 2022.
noemi osaka is a Japanese professional tennis player. She is ranked No. 1 in the world in singles by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) and is also the first Asian player to be ranked No. 1 in singles. Osaka is a four-time Grand Slam singles champion. She has won 2 Australian Open, 3 French Open, 2 Wimbledon and 2 US Open in her career so far. At the age of 25, she achieved great success in her career. She was the first woman to win back-to-back major singles titles since Serena Williams in 2015.
Osaka earned a total of $51.1 million in 2022, making her the highest-paid female athlete in 2022.
2 Serena Williams
The tennis veteran Serena Williams is an American inactive professional tennis player who is highly regarded for her prolific career. She has won almost everything in the world of tennis. she was ranked world number 1 in singles by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) for 319 weeks. Williams won 23 Grand Slam titles, the most of any player in the Open era. She has a career record of 192-35 with a winning percentage of 84.6%.
Williams earned $41.3 million in 2022, making her the second-highest-paid female athlete in 2022.
3 Eileen Gu
Eileen Gu is an American-born freestyle skier. She has competed for China in halfpipe, slopestyle and big air events since 2019. She is only 19 years old, but so far she has achieved a lot of success in her career. Gu represented China at the 2022 Olympics and won 2 gold medals in Big Air and Halfpipe. She also won gold medals at the 2021 Halfpipe World Championships and the 2021 Superpipe Winter Games.
Eileen earned a total of $20.1 million in 2022, making her the third-highest-paid female athlete in 2022.
4 Emma Raducanu
emma raducanu is a British professional tennis player. In July 2022, she reached a career high ranking of hers at No. 10 in the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA). She is the current number 1 British woman to win a Grand Slam singles title since Virginia Wade at the 1977 Wimbledon Championships. Her career record thus far is 93-44 with a 67.9% winning percentage. . She won the US Open in 2021. Emma is only 20 years old but sitting on top of the mountain with such prestigious names in the sport.
She earned a total of $18.7 million in 2022, making her the fourth highest-paid female athlete in 2022.
5 Iga Swiatek
Iga Swiatek is a Polish professional tennis player. She is currently ranked number 1 in the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA). Swiatek is a three-time major singles champion. She has also won 2 French Open and 1 US Open in her career so far, which is quite commendable. Her career record thus far is 27-14 with a 65.9% winning percentage. In 2022, Iga won the French Open and the US Open at the young age of 21.
Iga Swiatek earned a total of $14.9 million in 2022, making her the fifth highest-paid female athlete in 2022.
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