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Serena Williams, the highest paid female athlete in 2017. Tennis has offered equal prize money at the four Grand Slams since 2007. [1] This is a timeline of the gender pay gap in sports, spanning from the 20th century to the 21st century. It includes the major events that resulted in the equal pay of male and female athletes in varying sports ...
Starting with the United States Open, up to now, all of the four Grand Slam tournaments offer the same prize money to female and male athletes. [75] The list of the top 10 highest-paid female athletes in 2018 released by Forbes shows that tennis is the best-paying sports for female athletes as eight tennis player joined that list. [76]
List of Open Era Grand Slam champions by country; ... Top ten ranked male tennis players; ... Top ten ranked female tennis players (1921–1974) ...
At around 15, she started competing professionally, quickly catching the world's attention when she upset seven-time Grand Slam champion and former world No.1 Venus Williams at Wimbledon in 2019 ...
For the 2018 U.S. Open, a record $3.8 million was awarded to both the men’s and women’s singles champions, while in 2020, the prize money was reduced to a mere $3 million for the singles champs.
How ‘introverted’ Iga Świątek became a four-time grand slam champion and the world’s highest-paid female athlete. ... and Aryna Sabalenka, made up nine of the top 10 and 12 of the top 20 ...
In 1965, Margaret Court won a record nine titles out of twelve available to a player in the same year: the singles, doubles and mixed doubles at all four Grand Slam tournaments. [ citation needed ] In 1985, Martina Navratilova reached the final in all Grand Slam events held that year, equaling the record of eleven final appearances set by Court ...
The Russian-born Sharapova annually was one of the best-paid female athletes in the world and ranks fourth in all-time women's tennis earnings (over $38 million) while being a big hit via ...