Sharapova joined the list of highest-paid athletes decade – Russian newspaper

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova entered the top 20 richest athletes decade, according to the authoritative magazine Forbes. Since 2005, Maria has earned $ 250 million, and occupies in the ranking of 18th place. By the way, Sharapova was the only girl that falls in the top 20 list.

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The head his American golfer Tiger Woods, whose income for the period amounted to 845 million. Second place is left for the recently concluded his career boxer Floyd Mayweather (660 million), well and closed the top three basketball player Kobe Bryant (745 million). The top ten also hit: basketball player LeBron James (472 million), golfer Phil Mickelson (468 million), tennis player Roger Federer (455 million), a former football player for England, David Beckham (441 million), boxer Manny Pacquiao (432 million) as well as two of the best players in the world at the moment – Cristiano Ronaldo from the “Real” (407 million), and winner of four “Golden Goals” of the Argentine “Barcelona” Lionel Messi (350 million).

As for Sharapova, then, according to the publication, the most successful from a financial point of view, it was the year for the previous one – from June 2014 to June 2015 it earned 29.7 million euros, of which 6.7 million and 23 million in prize money at the expense of sponsorship contracts.

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This year, Sharapova won two WTA tournament in Brisbane and Rome. In the tournament “Grand Slam” this year Maria reached the final at the Australian Open, to the stage of 1/8 on the “Roland Garros”, and in early July, the Russian has lost in the semifinals, “Wimbledon” top-ranked Serena Williams.

It should be noted that the Russian has been the 11th year in a row, with a win at Wimbledon at the age of 17, becoming the highest-paid female athlete.

Another good news for fans of Sharapova – tennis player will return to court next week after recovering from injury, because of which she had to miss the US Open. Maria will take part in the tournament WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) in the Chinese city of Wuhan. “I seriously worked over themselves to compete again, and I can not wait to start playing again,” – quoted by the official website Sharapova WTA. In the WTA rankings Maria remains in third place.

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