Nadal has a Navy company in the ‘top’ 10 of income

The Spanish tennis elite has ended 2020 in an enviable state of health, according to data extracted from the ATP earnings list for the season that just ended. In addition to Rafael Nadal, a regular on this list thanks to his insatiable hunger for titles, two other representatives of the Navy have managed to get into the top 10 of the tennis players who have received the most income for their sports performance. Pablo Carreño Y Roberto Bautista are the Spaniards who have the honor of ending the year in a list in which Nadal occupies third place this year, with more than three million euros (3,224,135 specifically) harvested between Roland-Garros, the Australian Open, the Masters 1000 in Paris-Bercy, the ATP 500 in Acapulco and the ATP Finals.

Pablo Carreño, who at the beginning of the year was already beginning to show his intention to return to being a tennis player to be reckoned with on the circuit after a series of physical problems, occupies a remarkable eighth place with 1.62 million euros. The US Open semifinal and his good performance in Paris at both Roland-Garros and the Masters 1000 in Paris-Bercy have been the key to the Asturian’s resurgence.

For its part, Roberto Bautista He may not have grabbed as many headlines as in previous years, but the Spaniard closes the classification in tenth place thanks to his semifinal in Cincinnati and his well-known regularity in Grand Slams, where he reached the third round in the three that were played.

Novak Djokovic He ends the year as number one in the world and also as the tennis player with the highest income (advertising contracts on the sidelines). The Serbian, Australian Open champion, pocketed 5.44 million euros in a season that ended with a balance of 41 wins and only five losses, including his disqualification from the US Open.

Dominic Thiem, finalist of the ATP Finals and champion of the US Open, has managed to surpass this season Rafael Nadal with total earnings of 5.04 million euros. The Austrian continues to progress and is now in a position to compete face to face with Nadal Y Djokovic, as it has shown throughout the year.

The list is completed Daniil Medvedev (4.º), Alexander Zverev (5.º), Andrey Rublev (6.º), Stefanos Tsitsipas (7th) and Diego Schwartzman (9th), all of them protagonists of the ATP in one or more moments of an atypical year for the world of tennis and sports in general.

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