With the complete end of the 2022 season, various statistics for this year have been released one after another. As one of the commercial sports with the highest profit-absorbing efficiency in the world, the ranking of tennis tournament money list has attracted people's attention. On this year's money list, Serbian tennis superstar Djokovic continues to dominate the rankings.
According to statistics, there are 58 male players and 39 female players in tennis this year, a total of 97 players have earned more than 1,000,000 US dollars in prize money (single and doubles combined). The top five male players are: Djokovic: 9,934,582, Alcaraz : 7,655,130, Nadal : 7,442,076, Rudd : 6,942,316, Sisipas : 5,648,416. The top five female players are: Swatek : 9,875,525, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: 4,997,069, Garcia: 3,729,317, Lebakina: 3,613,440, Pegula: 3,611,716.
In addition, only four pairs have won more than one million in doubles, namely: Ram / Salisbury , Kolkhov/Skupski, Pavic /Mei Ketic, Kleckova/Snyakova (Kleckova is the only player who has earned at least one million bonuses in both singles and doubles). The only Chinese player to break the million mark is Zhang Shuai , reaching US$1,478,433. Zheng Qinwen followed with $984,873. The male player earning the most prize money is Wu Yibing with $232,988. Zhang Zhizhen , who ranked first, also received a bonus of US$199,671.
From this list, it can be seen that the income from tennis is still very considerable. Although the ability to absorb money is not as good as professional boxing top boxing champion, it is also many orders of magnitude higher than UFC boxers.
It is worth mentioning that if the commercial endorsements of Nadal and Djokovic are included in the income, then both of them have tens of millions of dollars in annual income, which is quite good. The UFC, which the media and so-called fighting fans are crazy about, is actually a very cheap project.
The appearance fee of a UFC champion is only a few hundred thousand dollars, while an ordinary boxer only has a few thousand to tens of thousands of dollars, and there is a risk of broken arms and legs. Tennis is a good way to get rich.