Two-time Grand Slam champion Noami Osaka broke into the quarter-finals at the 2020 Western and Southern Open. Recently, Forbes released a report on the highest paid female athletes of 2020 and Naomi Osaka tops the list to become the highest paid woman athlete in the last year.
The Japanese surpassed her arch rival Serena Williams, second on Forbes’ list of highest paid athletes. Osaka earned a whopping $ 37.4 million last year with $ 34 million in sponsorships and $ 3.4 million in prize money.
Osaka for being the highest paid female athlete @ Forbes: “It’s a little weird, b / c I feel like people are looking at me differently now.”
“I mean, I’m weird, right? It’s kind of a fact. So people always looked at me differently. But now people look, look.”
– WTA Insider (@WTA_insider) 25 August 2020
“It’s kind of weird, because I feel like people look at me differently now. I mean, I’m weird, right? It’s kind of a fact. So people always looked at me differently. But now people look, they look “ said Osaka tops the Forbes chart as the highest paid female athlete.
Former world number 1 Naomi has signed profitable sponsorships with some of the biggest brands such as Nike, Nissin, Procter Gamble and many more. In May of this year, Osaka was ranked 29th on Forbes’ annual list of the 100 best athletes in the world.
It was the first time since 2016 that two athletes found a place among the top 100 athletes, in 2016 Maria Sharapova appeared alongside Serena Willaims.
WTA stars dominate the Forbes list
Nine WTA players were placed in the Top-10 of Forbes’ highest paid female athlete. US Open champion Bianca Andreescu is in 6th place while reigning Wimbledon champion Simona Halep is in 4th place.
Current world No. 1 Ashleigh Barty in third place grossed $ 13.1 million last year. 2017 Wimbledon champion Garbine Muguruza, world number 5 Elina Svitolina is also on the elusive list.
$ 3M for the 2020 US Open Single Championship
The United States 2020 announced a total compensation of 53.4 million dollars, with the possibility of winning 3 million dollars as prize money for both the single champion and the women. The US Open was the first grand slam to introduce gender pay parity.
