The World's Highest-Paid Tennis Players

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Male and female athletes typically play for vastly different sums of money in their respective sports. Michelle Wie pocketed $337,500 for her second career LPGA victory last weekend, while Matt Kuchar's paycheck was $1.35 million for claiming the Barclays men's golf event on Sunday. The best-paid players in the WNBA make $100,000 per season on the court, while men's salaries can reach $23 million.
Tennis is different though. The men's and women's US Open champion will each earn $1.7 million for the title. The US Open has paid equal prize money the past 38 years, but credit Venus Williams who fought for equal pay at Wimbledon which finally acquiesced in 2007 as did the French Open.
Our look at the highest-paid tennis players typifies this kind of equality in the game. Half of the top 10 are men, and half are women. Leading the pack is Roger Federer who is light years ahead of anyone else thanks to his longtime dominance on the court and 10 lucrative sponsorship deals with the likes of Nike, Wilson, Gillette and Mercedes-Benz. The world's No. 2 ranked player earned $43 million by our count over the past 12 months.

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Male and female athletes typically play for vastly different sums of money in their respective sports. Michelle Wie pocketed $337,500 for her second career LPGA victory last weekend, while Matt Kuchar's paycheck was $1.35 million for claiming the Barclays men's golf event on Sunday. The best-paid players in the WNBA make $100,000 per season on the court, while men's salaries can reach $23 million.
Tennis is different though. The men's and women's US Open champion will each earn $1.7 million for the title. The US Open has paid equal prize money the past 38 years, but credit Venus Williams who fought for equal pay at Wimbledon which finally acquiesced in 2007 as did the French Open.
Our look at the highest-paid tennis players typifies this kind of equality in the game. Half of the top 10 are men, and half are women. Leading the pack is Roger Federer who is light years ahead of anyone else thanks to his longtime dominance on the court and 10 lucrative sponsorship deals with the likes of Nike, Wilson, Gillette and Mercedes-Benz. The world's No. 2 ranked player earned $43 million by our count over the past 12 months.

I am saying this purely from a business standpoint, not being a sexist - but it is an absolute disgrace that women tennis players make as much as men for these tournaments. It's all about who draws the crowd, who brings in the money, and that would be the men. I agree that women's tennis is bigger than most women's sports, maybe the biggest, but they are stealing money from men.

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I am saying this purely from a business standpoint, not being a sexist - but it is an absolute disgrace that women tennis players make as much as men for these tournaments. It's all about who draws the crowd, who brings in the money, and that would be the men. I agree that women's tennis is bigger than most women's sports, maybe the biggest, but they are stealing money from men.

Yep i agree, not to mention that they play best of 3 not 5 in the majors.

[yisman]

of course they're stealing money, but everything today is about "equality".

Women demand to be paid as much as men, regardless of whether they produce as much.

Also see Title IX in college, where the vast majority of the revenue is brought in for men's sports, but there has to be "equality".