Here's The World’s Highest-Paid Tennis Players 2025

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Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner are the sport’s next great rivalry—on and off the court—as they lead a group of 10 stars who collectively earned $285 million over the past year.  Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brettknight/2025/08/22/the-worlds-highest-paid-tennis-players-2025/  Subscribe to FORBES: https://www.youtube.com/user/Forbes?sub_confirmation=1  Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more:  https://account.forbes.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=growth_non-sub_paid_subscribe_ytdescript  Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes:  http://forbes.com  Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success.

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00:00Today on Forbes, The World's Highest-Paid Tennis Players 2025

00:07As the US Open is now in full swing in New York, all eyes are on professional tennis.

00:12For the past year, tennis has been dominated by the on-court battle between 24-year-old

00:17Yannick Sinner of Italy and 22-year-old Carlos Alcaraz of Spain, who have combined for all

00:23four Grand Slam singles championships in that span, plus another eight ATP Tour titles along

00:29the way.

00:30Now, the rivalry is taking a financial turn.

00:35For the second straight year, Alcaraz is the world's highest-paid tennis player, retaining

00:39the top spot with an estimated $48.3 million over the past 12 months before taxes and agent

00:46fees, up from the $42.3 million he posted the year prior.

00:51But Sinner has narrowed the gap, collecting an estimated $47.3 million dating to the 2024

00:58US Open in a significant jump from his $26.6 million the previous year.

01:04On the court, Sinner has the edge with $20.3 million, a figure that has been surpassed only

01:10by Novak Djokovic in the 18 editions of Forbes' annual tennis earnings list.

01:16Djokovic, the 38-year-old from Serbia, hauled in $21.8 million over the 12 months ending in

01:22June 2016 and $20.6 million on the 2019 list.

01:28But Alcaraz is tennis's off-court king, with estimated earnings of $35 million from endorsements,

01:35appearances, exhibitions, and other business endeavors.

01:40Coming in at number three overall, and first among women's players, is Coco Gauff, also

01:45the world's highest-paid female athlete across all sports last year.

01:50The 21-year-old American raked in an estimated $37.2 million over the past 12 months, $12.2

01:58million in prize money, and $25 million off the court.

02:02The vault past Djokovic, who lands at number four overall, with $29.6 million.

02:09The shakeup means the earnings ranking is headed by three players under 30 for the first time

02:15since a young Roger Federer, Maria Sharapova, and Rafael Nadal led the list in 2010.

02:22Federer reigned atop the ranking until his retirement at age 41 in 2022, and Djokovic briefly claimed

02:29the throne in 2023 before ceding it to Alcaraz.

02:34Combined, the world's 10 highest-paid tennis players made an estimated $285 million over

02:39the past 12 months, a 16% increase from last year's total of $246 million.

02:47That sum is still nowhere near the record of $343 million, set in 2020, but the difference

02:54largely comes down to the absence of Federer, who put up $106.3 million by himself that year,

03:01not to mention the now-retired Nadal, with $40 million in 2020, and Serena Williams, with

03:07$36 million.

03:09Digging deeper into the numbers, there are some positive signs.

03:12For starters, Djokovic is the only member of this year's top 10 who is older than 29,

03:18and the average age of the list now stands at 26, having dropped more than three years

03:23since 2020.

03:25And the sport's rising stars remain on an upward trajectory, including Alcaraz, whose $48.3

03:31million total is the best figure ever by a player not named Federer, Djokovic, or Naomi

03:37Osaka, surpassing Nadal's $44.5 million peak from 2014.

03:44Men's stars can further bolster their earnings through the ATP's profit-sharing system, which

03:49was introduced in 2022 as part of the tour's One Vision initiative.

03:54The tour recently announced that it was distributing $18.3 million to players based on their performance

04:00at 2024's ATP Masters 1000 tournaments, the top nine events below the Grand Slams and the

04:06year-end championships.

04:09The bonus pool nearly triples the $6.6 million dispersed for 2023.

04:15On the women's side, Goff's paychecks are keeping her out in front, but her rivals are

04:19making up ground.

04:21Marina Sabalenka, the top-ranked women's player, has climbed to $27.4 million in total earnings,

04:28and $15 million from endorsements and appearances, bringing her in line off the court with her

04:33Polish rival, Iga Sviantek, as the Belarusian star overcomes marketers' hesitation around

04:39players hailing from countries involved in the Russia-Ukraine war.

04:43For full coverage and to see the whole list, check out Brett Knight's piece on Forbes.com.

04:50This is Kieran Meadows from Forbes, thanks for tuning in.

04:58You can see the answer.

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