2007-03-27 20:45:26 · 20 answers · asked by geoff p 1 in Sports ➔ Tennis
Who cares. What ever they earn on the court they deserve it, its does not have to be made public. Tell your friend he/she is pretty nosy.
2007-03-28 01:54:22 · answer #1 · answered by boogiewoogie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will be a fierce contest between Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams. Maria earns a whopping 20 million USD a year from all the contracts and fashion stuff, and another 2-3.5 million from the tennis circuit. Serena was the highest paid female athlete until 2004, when she was overthrown by Maria. Still, I think she easily does about 16-17 million USD a year. All in all, I will give the No.1 spot to Serena, bcuz she has been around for a longer time. There is no chance a male player is out there at the top, because no one of them, except perhaps Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, earns even 10 million USD a year.
2007-03-28 01:34:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's interesting that both the male and female tennis players who currently have made the most money playing tennis are from the tiny country of Switzerland.
For men, Roger Federer currently has $29,901,828 as of March 28th, 2007. He made almost 8 million last year alone, which in tennis standards is unheard of. I think the only two players who have made more are Agassi at 31 million and Sampras with 43 million.
Martina Hingis currently has the most prize money for active women. She just crossed the $20 million dollar mark this week, making her only the 4th woman to do so joining Steffi Graf, Martina Navratilova, and Lindsay Davenport.
When in comes to players who are rich because of endorsements who have to look at who is big now. When Serena was #1, she signed a $12 million with Puma. Maria Sharapova and Andy Roddick also have some pretty big endorsement deals.
And you can't forget about Anna Kournikova who was one of the few tennis players to make it onto the Forbes list of wealthiest celebrities because she made millions off of tennis, but even more from modeling.
2007-03-28 04:24:50 · answer #3 · answered by Todd 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Definetly Roger Federer, as he has close to $30 million and with all of Maria Sharapova's extra modelling etc, She is probably the richest female
2007-03-27 22:24:00 · answer #4 · answered by Mand Lea 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Female: Maria Sharapova (world's highest paid female athlete at the end of 2006)
Male: I would say it's probably Roger Federer
2007-03-27 20:54:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Roger Federer and Martina Hingis. The Swiss!
2007-03-28 04:24:20 · answer #6 · answered by T.J. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Men - Roger federer, Prize Money: $29,901,828
Women- Martina Hingis, $19,997,825
These are the active players having highest career prize money.
2007-03-27 22:28:36 · answer #7 · answered by snehil s 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Roger Federer currently. Agassi has earnt the most. Don`t know about the women.
2007-03-28 06:39:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
roger federer - prize money alone makes him the richest and apart form that comes the sponsors
sharapova - its the same and apart from sponsors she is a model.
cheers:)
2007-03-28 00:45:02 · answer #9 · answered by Ahmed 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The William's sisters & Federer !
2007-03-28 08:20:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Defiantly roger federer
2007-03-27 20:47:51 · answer #11 · answered by Kris 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋