18 | BusinessWorld |August-September 2014
Top 10
Highest-Paid
Athletes
Female
Attention, doting tennis parents.
Forbesmagazine recently released its list of the top 10 highest-paid female athletes for 2014,
andno fewer than sevenof themcarried rackets and tennis sneakers towork every day.
The same 10 athletes carriedover from2013, with some spot shifting.
Maria
Sharapova
LI
NA
TENNIS
TENNIS
Earnings
$24.4 million
Prize Money Endorsements
$ 2.4 MILLION $ 22 mILLION
Earnings
$23.6 million
Prize Money Endorsements
$ 5.6 MILLION $ 18 MILLION
