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became the first tennis player in history to rank first on this list. Photo/Social Media
Beijing News (Reporter Sun Haiguang) Forbes announced the 2020 athlete income ranking yesterday. Federer beat Ronaldo, Messi and others with US$106.3 million, becoming the first tennis player in history to rank first on this list.
Forbes' list counts the income of athletes from June 1, 2019 to June 1, 2020. In the past year, Swiss tennis player Federer has earned a total of US$106.3 million, and his ranking on the list has also jumped from No. 5 last year to top. This is also the first time that tennis players have dominated the top spot on the list. Previously, this position was mostly occupied by football, golf or boxing players.
has a bonus income of only US$6.3 million and a commercial endorsement revenue of US$106.3 million, which is more than the combined commercial endorsement of Ronaldo, Messi and Neymar. Ronaldo ranked second on the
list. Although his commercial endorsement was only $40 million, his total revenue still reached $105 million with his high event bonus. Messi, who ranked first on the list with $130 million last year, saw his total revenue drop to $104 million this year, and his ranking also dropped to third place. Neymar and James ranked fourth and fifth in
, with their total revenues of $95.5 million and $88.2 million respectively. In addition, among the top ten, there are Curry , Durant, Woods, as well as two football athletes, Cork Cousins and Carson Wentz.
female players, Japanese tennis player Osaka Naomi ranked 29th with US$37.4 million, and she also became the highest-paid female player. Previously, Sharapova, the highest-earning record for female athletes, earned $29.7 million in 2015.
In this list of 100 people, there are 35 basketball players, 31 rugby players, 14 football players, 6 tennis players, boxing and golf players, 3 equestrian players, 1 each of baseball , mixed martial arts and cricket athletes. Affected by the epidemic, the total income of the top 100 athletes on the list has declined for the first time in four years, with total pre-tax revenue this year being US$3.6 billion.
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