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The 25 Richest Tennis Players in the World
In the past ten years, several major tennis players have been among the richest people in the world. Here are the 25 Richest Tennis Players in the world in 2013.
25. Justine Henin
Net Worth: $14 Million
We’ll be starting with Justine Henin with her last match on February 25th, 2015.
Justine was raised to be a tennis player. She played tennis from a young age and was taken to watch the French Open by her mother regularly.
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She was able to see the world No-1 and she was very fortunate.
It was her idol who inspired her to get into tennis. She went on to win 43 WTA singles titles and seven Grand Slam singles titles.
She announced that she is retiring from professional tennis in 2011, and would focus entirely on her children’s education.
24. Victoria Azarenka
Net Worth: $15 Million
She was born in Belarus. She has had a great year but she’s been upset in the first round of Wimbledon to Aznavour and the French Open to Sevastova.
Some of her accomplishments as a singles player include reaching the quarterfinals of the French Open, winning the Australian Open twice, winning a Bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics and winning the title at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
23. Martina Navratilova
Net Worth: $15 Million
Martina Navratilova was a professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia and is considered to be one of the most successful women tennis players of all time.
She is currently worth $15 million, has competed several times throughout her career, and won several competitions.
In 1975, Martina became the number one tennis player in the Czechoslovakia and in 1981, she became a U.S. citizen.
She has won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, 31 doubles titles and 10 mixed doubles titles. She is the most successful female singles player in the Open Era who has not been born in the United States.
22. Marat Safin
Net Worth: $15 Million
After he retired from tennis, he started a business.
This year, he won the tournament in Chennai, beating the third ranked player from Egypt.
He is the oldest man in the history of tennis to win a Grand Slam tournament and the oldest men’s singles champion since the Open Era began in 1968.
John McEnroe lost his temper a lot. He had the longest temper of any player in history.
Marat Safin will soon be receiving a $1.5 million bonus for winning the 2003 Australian Open.
21. David Ferrer
Net Worth: $16 Million
The world’s tennis players have a high net worth but the one with the highest net worth is a tennis player from Spain.
In 2000, he started focusing on tennis as a career and turned professional.
Since then, he has won more than 20 professional titles, won the quarterfinal match of Wimbledon in 2012, and peaked at number three on the world rankings.
Andre Agassi has earned $31 million dollars and being the 7th highest paid player in tennis history.
20. Ana Ivanovic
Net Worth: $16 Million
Ana Ivanovic is a Serbian tennis player who’s known for her powerful forehand and hard-hitting groundstrokes. She also is ranked No. 7 in the world.
Ana has a net worth of $16 million dollars and has been playing tennis for twenty two years.
She made it to the finals in 2004 Junior Wimbledon tournament and won her first singles title in 2005.
She was on the Sexiest Women list in 2009, won over $11 million in prize money throughout her career.
19. Chris Evert
Net Worth: $16 Million
Evert was a professional tennis player and later became a tennis coach. She became the top ranked female tennis player in the world.
Serena Williams has a net worth of $6 million dollars. She earns that from winning 18 Grand slam singles championships over a 20 year career.
 She now is a tennis coach for the Saint Andrew’s School in Boca Raton where she teaches tennis to young people ages 8 and up.
She contributes to the Tennis Magazine as a regular contributor. And she also contributes to the ESPN program “Tennis Today”.
18. Jim Courier
Net Worth: $18 Million
Jim Courier is a tennis player who is famous for his net worth of $18 million.
He began his professional career at a young age, winning many titles in the 80s.
It was the year Ivan Lendl emerged from the shadows and won the first of his seven Grand Slam championships.
He then went on to win the French Open twice, his only major title, in 1992 and 1993.
Former world number 1 Yevgeny Kafelnikov, retired in 2000 and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
17. Billie Jean King
Net Worth: $20 Million
Billie Jean King is an American former World No.1 tennis player. She was considered one of the richest tennis players in the world.
Serena and Venus Williams are one of the richest tennis players in terms of net worth.
King has been a successful tennis player for a very long time. He has won 12 Grand Slam titles, which include, 12 singles, 16 women’s doubles and 11 mixed doubles titles.
She worked tirelessly to improve society and bring awareness to issues that women face.
He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987.
16. Agnieszka Radwańska
Net Worth: $25 Million
Agnieszka Radwanska is a professional tennis player from Poland. Her professional career began in 2005.
It is said that she has a wealth of about $25 million, with a career earning of $18 million.
She was ranked world number one a few times. She was the first Pole to reach the singles final of a Grand Slam, and did it at the French Open in 2000. She won many titles, however, only one was a major title, the French Open in 2000.
Agnieszka received the Gold Cross of Merit by the Polish President’s own hands.
15. Andy Roddick
Net Worth: $30 Million
Andy Roddick is a retired American professional tennis player. He earned nearly $30 million during his career.
He’s a former top ranked professional player.
While tennis was Andy’s main profession during his career, his birthday was a time where he got to enjoy having fun.
Andy earned a total of over $20 million in prize money throughout his professional career.
14. Björn Borg
Net Worth: $40 Million
Bjorn Borg is one of the greatest tennis players to have ever lived!
He won multiple junior titles at the beginning of his career. He was a natural athlete and his routine practice led him to win medals in different international tournaments.
He was a dominant force in tennis who won everything.
As the sport grew in popularity, tennis became more competitive, leading to the creation of the world tour, and the creation of ATP.
He did not like the conditions of the league, he didn’t like the money, he didn’t like the environment. He didn’t like how the league was changing, how the players were changing.
13. Li Na
Net Worth: $50 Million
There are many things you can do with a net worth of $50million dollars.
Born in Wuhan, she started her sporting career with badminton. Her father was a professional badminton player.
When badminton wasn’t satisfying her, she turned to tennis and got a contract with the French Tennis Federation. She made it to the French Open in 2001.
But that would be no match for this French woman.
After winning the second Grand Slam of her career by defeating Karolina Pliskova in the French Open final, Zheng Jie becomes the first Chinese player to win a major singles title in the Open Era. She is also the first Asian player to win a Grand Slam title, which had previously been accomplished only by Jimmy Arias in 1990 and Monica Seles in 1991.
12. Anna Kournikova
Net Worth: $50 Million
Anna Kournikova retired from tennis in 2007 after being unable to participate in the WTA Tour due to injuries. Anna Kournikova is a retired Russian-American professional tennis player, and one of the most famous female tennis players in the world.
She was known for her doubles partnership with Anna Kournikova.
Grand Slam winners, Martina and Annabel helped to form a women’s doubles team that was regarded as one the finest in the world.
It is really unfortunate that Anna developed serious back and spinal problems which made her retire.
11. Venus Williams
Net Worth: $95 Million
It’s no secret that the tennis player has had the most successful career among all female tennis players.
She is very, very rich and has been a former World No. 1 singles player on three different occasions.
Venus and Serina battled for years, both becoming very competitive and professional in the sport.
Serena Williams is the second highest earning female tennis player of all time. She earns more than $5 – $10 million from endorsements deals, annually.
10. John McEnroe
Net Worth: $100 Million
While not the best tennis player ever, he was very good at tennis, as was proven during the 1980s.
The guy who has a net worth of $100 million dollars has a very successful career.
He is most likely famous for his temper, which makes him the most unpopular man playing for Australia.
Arthur Ashe was the first black man to win Wimbledon, in 1977, and he was the first black to earn over $1,000,000 in prize money.
9. Andy Murray
Net Worth: $100 Million
Although he earned $100 million in net worth, Andy has been suffering financially over the last couple of months due to his injury on his right hip.
That’s why the whole world is looking forward to the 2015 French Open and the battle between him and Tsonga.
Djokovic is one of the greatest tennis players in the world, beating his last rival, Rafael Nadal, at the 2013 French Open, to win his second French Open title.
Roger Federer won his third Wimbledon after beating Novak Djokovic 7-6 6-4 6-2.
Andy Murray recently made around $10 million per year from on and off court earnings.
8. Maria Sharapova
Net Worth: $135 Million
This tennis player, Maria Sharapova, is a Russian born professional tennis player.
Her outstanding career earned her one of the highest salaries of female athletes in the history.
Maria took advantage of the fact that she was 17 to win her first major in Australian Open.
She also continued to place and gain more popularity, winning the U.S. Open in 2006 and the Australian Open in 2008.
Sharapova has been ranked the female world No. 1 at least five times in her career. Sharapova won her last match Sunday against Maria Kirilenko.
7. Pete Sampras
Net Worth: $150 Million
Pete Sampras is a retired American tennis player with a net worth of $150 million dollars and also is a good writer, as well as a chef.
Although he was a crowd favorite and won 14 Grand Slam singles titles, he was never as dominating as Pete Sampras.
Pete is the ATP Player of the year for six years in a row, and the Tennis Channel has decided to name him the ATP Player of the year for the entire year.
He was a champion of boxing, and he trained boxers. He had a gym in which boxers trained and for which he received a small salary or a small percentage of the winnings.
6. Andre Agassi
Andre Agassi Net Worth: $175 Million
Andre Agassi is a retired American tennis player who’s net worth is $175 million dollars.
He became a professional in 1986, and within two years had already won a million dollars.
He also won 8 Grand Slams, more than anyone else. His 8 Grand Slam wins makes him the only person to have two Career Golden Slams.
John Agassi set up a charitable foundation for children at risk in Nevada and pays for a character school for a child.
Andre Agassi retired after 20 years of playing tennis professionally and going to the U.S. Open for the final time.
5. Serena Williams
Net Worth: $180 Million
Shizuka Ito is a former Miss Japan World. She’s popular overseas, particularly in the USA.
Serena Williams is one of the best female tennis players in the world.
Roger Federer has won 18 Grand Slam titles, been ranked number one in the world five times, won gold medals at the London, Sydney and Beijing Olympics.
She was the highest-earning female tennis player in history. It is estimated that she earns over $10M per year.
4. Rafael Nadal
Net Worth: $180 Million
Rafael Nadal is one of the most talented tennis players on our list.
Rafael Nadal is a tennis player,and has a net worth of $180 million dollars. The number one tennis player in the world.
He has earned some of the most prize money in the history of the game, a bit over $103 million dollars.
When the news of her $2.5 million sponsorship deal with the German manufacturer Porsche, and the $600,000 contract that she signed with the Swiss watch manufacturer Tag Heuer, broke out, Serena’s camp denied that she had ‘sold out’.
3. Novak Djokovic
Net Worth: $200 Million
The top three with all the votes.
When he was a kid, he played tennis to improve his skills, but later he became a professional tennis player.
He has become the highest paid athlete in the world with earnings of almost $120 million dollars.
He won Wimbledon thrice, also lost at the Australian Open, the French Open and won the US Open once.
Michael Phelps had won seven gold medals at the 2008 Olympics. Michael Phelps had won eight gold medals at the 2012 Olympics.
That year, Novak Djokovic won $3.8 million dollars in his career.
2. Roger Federer
Net Worth: $450 Million
The Swiss tennis player is just one of the highest-paid athletes in sports. He is the most popular tennis player of all time, and his net worth has grown to $200 million.
Roger is a Swiss professional tennis player. He started playing tennis at the age of eleven.
In 1999 he turned pro in the Dutch professional scene and played his first international match at the age of 16.
He was the youngest member of the ATP’s top 100 and he represented Switzerland at the Olympics in 2000. He finished 32nd in Barcelona in 2004.
Roger has been the most dominant player in tennis since it was introduced in 1877. He’s has dominated so many things in life, and is the number one ranked tennis player.
Federer made a lot of money for himself during his tennis career, which helped him get a comfortable lifestyle to live.
1. Ion Tiriac
Net Worth: $2 Billion
He achieved this title thanks to his winning streak that lasted more than 20 years in the main draws of the Grand Slam tournaments.
Ion was not like his brother, Marat. Marat played like a champion. He had very good legs and he was strong. He had a powerful serve. Ion was more like myself, with an all-round game. We played quite differently.
He’s a former tennis player who has twenty-two career wins and is ranked nineteenth in doubles tennis in April 1979.
He also won a gold medal at the World University Games in Beijing, China, in 1981.
In 1990 while he was still retired, he founded Banca Tiriac and became the first Romanian to ever be listed on the Forbes billionaire list in 2007.
Summary
If you look closely, you can see that the original is a little more detailed.
As we have said elsewhere, tennis is a sport which is not only a source of riches but a source of social cohesion.
The top players in the world are all millionaires. Some make more, some less, but here are the top 25 players in the world with an estimated net worth.