Among female sports stars this year, the player who earned the most was Coco Goff (USA), ranked 3rd in the world in singles on the Women's Professional Tennis (WTA) Tour.
According to this year's earnings rankings for female sports players announced by Sportico, an American sports business media outlet, on the 8th, Gough ranked first with a total income of $22.7 million (about 29.8 billion won).
Goff, born in 2004, reached the top of the singles at this year's major tournament, the US Open, and was runner-up at last year's French Open.
She is expected to be a promising successor to the retired Serena Williams (USA) and is also called the ‘second Williams.’
Of Goff's annual income, $6.7 million is from prize money, and the remaining $16 million is from sponsorship contracts.
Goff signed a five-year contract with New Balance and is sponsored by Head, UPS, and Rolex.
Second place goes to Iga Sibiontech (Poland), world number one on the WTA Tour, with $21.9 million.
Seven of the top 10 were tennis players.
Ski athlete Gu Ailing (China), a two-time gold medalist at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, ranked third with $20 million.
Gu Ailing received only $27,000 in prize money, but earned nearly $20 million through various sponsorship contracts, ranking first in sponsorship income.
Emma Radukanu (Great Britain) ranked 4th with $16.2 million, and Naomi Osaka (Japan, tennis player) ranked 5th with $15 million.
Osaka, who virtually skipped the 2023 season by giving birth in July of this year, ranked first in this ranking last year with $53.2 million.
In last year's rankings, 7 of the top 10 players were tennis players.
Among this year's top 10 players, in addition to Gu Ailing, non-tennis players included 9th place Simone Biles (gymnastics) with $8.5 million, and 10th place Nellie Korda (golf, USA) with $7.9 million.
Jinyoung Ko, who earned $8.3 million last year and ranked 6th, did not make the top 15 this year.
6th to 8th places, filled with tennis players, are Arina Sabalenka (Belarus) with $12.2 million, Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan) with $9.5 million, and Jessica Pegula (USA) with $9 million. 슬롯