Tennis News: Naomi Osaka always looks so shy and modest, but she is officially the highest paid female athlete in the world after receiving 37.4 million US dollars in the past 12 months, according to Forbes.
Before the name of the 22-year-old tennis player, Osaka sticking out, Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams dominated the top position of the list of female athletes with the highest income in the last ten years and with details Sharapova lined up as the female athlete with the highest income for five years, while Williams for four years.
The support of a number of sponsors and wins on the tennis court played a major role in establishing Osaka as the highest-income athlete in one year. Meanwhile, he is in 29th position in the list of 100 athletes with the highest income. Williams came in 33rd place with just 1.4 million US dollars adrift with Osaka.
Only girls can be compared to male athletes when it comes to income. Since Forbes began calculating the earnings of athletes in 1990, every year the female tennis player appears as the highest-income female athlete.
In addition to his achievements in the tennis world, a tennis player who has won two Grand Slam titles, Osaka is a promising figure to be marketed thanks to his multicultural background (he was born in Japan with a native Japanese mother and a Haitian American mixed father, while he lived in the US since he was 3 years old).
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Osaka – the first Japanese player to win the Grand Slam title and the first Asian ever to sit in world number 1 – has sponsorship agreements with 15 companies, including Nissan Motor, All Nippon Airways, MasterCard, Shiseido, and Nissin Foods.
The most notable partnership is Osaka’s cooperation with Nike which paid him more than US $ 10 million last season and will remain a sponsor until the 2025 season. In the fourth quarter of the 2020 season, Nike plans to release its own Osaka streetwear fashion in Japan.
For tennis equipment, Osaka has been using Yonex for more than a decade.
Previously, Naomi Osaka said that she would feel even more grateful when the tennis tournament resumed.
In an interview with CNN, the 22-year-old, Osaka said, “I will feel more grateful because you never know when something like this will happen again and I really miss tennis.”
