Tennis sensation Coco Gauff tops the checklist of the highest-paid feminine athletes on the earth for the second yr in a row.
Cori “Coco” Gauff, 20, named after her father, Corey Gauff, earned $30.4 million in 2024. She is the third feminine to earn greater than $30 million in a yr, following her idol Serena Williams and fellow tennis star Naomi Osaka.
Osaka was the following highest-ranked American feminine athlete with just below $16 million earned in 2024, adopted carefully by Simone Biles, probably the most adorned gymnast in U.S. historical past, at No. 9.
Caitlin Clark, the rookie sensation for the WNBA, is listed at No. 10 with $11 million in earnings for the 2024 calendar yr.
Gauff didn’t fare nicely within the Grand Slam singles, solely reaching the semifinals on the Australian and French Opens. She did, nonetheless, win the ladies’s doubles on the French Open, in addition to profitable the singles championship on the end-of-season WTA Finals. Away from tennis, Gauff made historical past by changing into the youngest Workforce USA flag bearer on the Olympics and the primary tennis participant to hold the flag for the U.S.
Gauff earned $9.4 million in prize cash. Nevertheless, she earned greater than twice as a lot along with her endorsement offers. She signed a multiyear pact with L’Oreal to pitch its pure hair care model Carol’s Daughter and added juice model Bare, the place she was named CSO — chief smoothie officer. The Bare deal consists of an fairness place as nicely.
Along with Gauff, three different girls’s tennis gamers topped the checklist.
Iga Świątek ($21.4 million), who has dominated Gauff of their head-to-head matchups, Zheng Qinwen ($20.6 million) and Aryna Sabalenka ($17.7 million) have been all in Sportico’s high 5.