Coco Gauff Is the World's Highest Paid Female Athlete—but Makes Way Less Than the Men
glamour.comlist of the highest-paid female athletes of 2024. Reportedly, the 20-year-old tennis phenom brought in a cool $34.4 million over the past year.
Not bad for a person who's not even old enough to drink yet.'s 2024 income was $10 million more than the second highest-paid female athlete, Polish tennis player Iga Świątek, and nearly three times the $12.9 million earned by , who came in sixth on the Forbes list.
was ninth on the list with $12.1 million and was 10th, bringing in $11.2 million.As impressive as these figures are, it's perhaps important to put them into perspective when compared with the highest-paid male athletes.
For scale, reported that soccer-player Christiano Ronaldo is the highest-paid athlete in the world, earning a whopping $260 million in 2024.
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