Sinner surpasses Alcaraz and becomes the highest-paid tennis player in the world
For the first time, Italian surpasses Spanish after earning 58 million dollars in the last year, of which 23 comes from prize money and the remaining 35 from sponsorships.
Jannik Sinner is also number one in finances. The Italian, according to Forbes List, has become, for the first time in his career, the highest-paid tennis player in the world. He is followed by Carlos Alcaraz, who drops one position, while Serena Williams rounds out the podium. The Top 10 includes names like Aryna Sabalenka (4th), Novak Djokovic (6th) and Alexander Zverev (9th).
The number one in the ATP ranking has earned 58 million dollars in the past year, of which 23 million comes from the prize money earned on the court, and the remaining 35 million from his endorsements. However, despite this ‘surpass’, Alcaraz remains the highest-paid male tennis player off the court after earning 38 million dollars, which added to the 15.7 million dollars in prize money brings the total to 53.7 million dollars.
For the first time, there are more women than men in the Top 10 highest-paid tennis players on the Forbes List
The return of Serena Williams to the tennis courts four years later has been the reason her name appears on the list again. In fact, both from the men's and women's circuits, she is the player who has received the most money off the court, specifically 40 million dollars. That is already enough to place her in third position, as the prize money earned this year has barely reached 100,000 dollars.
The number one in the WTA ranking, Aryna Sabalenka, takes the fourth spot after earning 36.1 million dollars (13.1 million dollars from prize money and 23 million dollars from endorsements). While the Top 5 is rounded out by Coco Gauff. The winner of Roland Garros last year earned up to 35.5 million dollars over the past year (7.5 million dollars from prize money and 28 million dollars off the court).
For the first time in his career, Jannik Sinner becomes the highest-paid tennis player in the world in the last year, according to Forbes.
The Top 10 is as follows, with On-court Earnings / Off-court Earnings:
1. Sinner: 58M (23/35)
2. Alcaraz: 53.7M (15.7/38)
3. Serena: 40.1M… pic.twitter.com/4y8I7zTbn0— José Morón (@jmgmoron) August 28, 2026
In sixth place is the 24-time Grand Slam champion, Novak Djokovic. The Serbian earned a total of 30.2 million dollars in the last twelve months, of which 25 million dollars were earned off the court and only 5.2 million from his performance on the court.
The rest of the top 10 consists of: Qinwen Zheng, with 22.6 million dollars (600,000 dollars from prize money and 22 million dollars from endorsements); Iga Swiatek, with 20.5 million dollars (5.5 million dollars from prize money and 15 million dollars in endorsements); Alexander Zverev, with 18.7 million dollars (13.7 million dollars from prize money and 5 million dollars from endorsements); and Elena Rybakina with 17.4 million dollars (11.4 million dollars from prize money and 6 million dollars from endorsements).
Other notable aspects of this Forbes List are that the total money earned by the Top 10 was 333 million dollars, while, for the first time in history, there are more women than men among the ten highest-paid athletes (6 out of 10).
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