2 minutes agoFederer is the world's most paid athlete
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Tennister Roger Federer is the world's most paid sportsman for 2020, since the pandemic COVID-19 has knocked football player Lionel Messi from the top position. Forbes ' annual list is published on Friday. Swiss tennis star Federer has won $106.3m in the last 12 months, including 100 million through [...]
Tennister Roger Federer is the world's most paid sportsman for 2020, since the pandemic COVID-19 has knocked football player Lionel Messi from the top position. Forbes ' annual list is published on Friday.
Swiss tennis star Federer has won $106.3m in the last 12 months, including 100 million through advertising agreements. Federer has advanced four positions and has become the first of his sports to hit the top of the list.
Footballers Cristino Ronaldo (105m), Messi (104) and Neymar (95.5) and American basketball player LeBron James (88.2) take their place in the first five.
Coronervirus' “Pandemia has led to pay reductions for football stars, Messy and Ronaldo, paving the way for a tennis player to rank as the world's first-paid athlete, for the first time, Kurt Badenhouse, editor in Forbes, said.
Japanese Naomi Osaka (37.4m dollars), ranked 29th on the list, exceeded other tennis player Serena Williams (36m dollars) as the world's most paid athlete. Osaka and Williams are the only ones on the list.
Basketball players dominate the 100 most paid. There are 35 basketball players on the list. American football has 31 seats. There are 14 football players on the list, tennis has six countries, boxing and MMA out of five, golf four, motorcycle three and baseball, and cricket by one.
