Tennis Players Dominate Forbes 2016 List Of Top Paid Female Athletes With Serena Williams Coming In At #1

#1 SERENA WILLIAMS (Tennis), $28.9 Million After an 11-year reign as the top female money earner in sports, counting endorsements combined with prizemoney, the provisionally suspended Maria Sharapova fell to #2 as 21-time singles Major winner Serena Williams tops the Forbes 2016 list, measuring money over the last 12 months. Considering that some of her … Continue reading →

Maria Sharapova Tops Forbes 2015 Highest Paid Female Athletes; Tennis Players Dominate With 7 Of The Top 10

For the 11th straight year Maria Sharapova tops the Forbes list of highest paid female athletes. The career Grand Slam winner from Russia benefited from her contracts with Nike, Avon, Tag Heuer, Porsche and Evian among others. Her personal candy line, Sugarpova, doubled in sales over the past 12 months. All of this added up … Continue reading →

Maria Sharapova Tops Forbes Highest Paid Female Athletes For 10th Straight Year

When the Forbes list of top 100 paid athletes came out a month or so ago, it was obvious Maria Sharapova, Li Na and Serena Williams would be 1, 2 and 3 when the top 10 female athlete list was published. Now it has been, and so officially we can say Masha has topped the … Continue reading →

WTA’s Maria Sharapova and Li Na The Only Women On Forbes List Of 100 Top Paid Athletes

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised but only 2 women made Forbes list of highest paid athletes over the last year. Those two women were both tennis players, Maria Sharapova and Li Na. What kind of surprises me is Serena Williams not making the list. The cut-off was pretty high though, at $16.6 million. Also, … Continue reading →