World’s richest tennis participant price £5.8bn is amongst best-paid feminine athletes
The world’s richest tennis participant has bolstered her £5.8billion web price by rating among the many best-paid feminine athletes on this planet.
It is not any secret Jessica Pegula is the heiress to her billionaire father Terry’s jaw-dropping riches. But the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres proprietor’s daughter is making enormous strides in her personal proper.
Pegula, named in Forbes’ 30 beneath 30 listing for 2023, loved the very best interval of her tennis profession up to now final yr. And the 29-year-old’s unbelievable achievements on the court docket, in addition to her many endorsements off it, resulted in her being the seventh highest-paid feminine athlete in 2023.
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According to Forbes, the American star earned a hefty $12.5million (£9.8m) throughout all the yr. Only a handful of sportswomen, similar to fellow tennis stars Emma Raducanu, Naomi Osaka and Coco Gauff ranked above her.
Around £4.7m of her earnings got here from on-field successes, similar to successful the most important singles title of her profession in 2023 in Montreal and reaching the championship match on the WTA Finals in November. She additionally briefly held the No.1 rating in tennis doubles alongside companion Gauff, having reached two Grand Slam semi-finals.
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The remaining £5.2m of Pegula’s earnings got here from a string of high-profile sponsorships. That included offers with Dyson headphones, De Bethune watches and Gorjana jewelry.
Pegula is hardly in want of cash given her dad’s staggering wealth. Terry made a fortune in oil and fuel, promoting the majority of his property in 2010 to Royal Dutch Shell earlier than turning his consideration to beginning a sports activities empire with the acquisition of Ice Hockey crew Sabres in 2011 and NFL franchise the Bills in 2014.
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Still, Pegula is not going to be taking her eye off the ball as she appears to start out the yr with a bang. She shall be striving to land her first Grand Slam title as soon as she will get underway on the Australian Open on January 16.
The competitors’s prize pot of £46m – an infinite enhance of 13% – gives loads of incentive for Pegula and tennis’ different stars to depart their mark on the competitors.
