In tennis, pay for men and women is comparable. In team sports like basketball, players are in different zip codes.
this month, and the top 100 exemplified the stark contrast in pay between professional male and female athletes.
Tennis players are the only female athletes to rank among the overall top earners over the past decade, with Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova and Li Na all having appeared multiple times on ’ list. Excluding men's star Roger Federer, elite female tennis players compare very well with their male counterparts in terms of endorsement earnings.
in 2018, nine were tennis players. Women in male-dominated sports such as racecar driver Danica Patrick and UFC and WWE star Ronda Rousey ranked among the top earners in their sports when they were active. was $117,500 last season, compared with $37.4 million in the NBA. The team salary cap for the National Pro Fastpitch softball league is $175,000; the Boston Red Sox will split $227 million in 2019. “The Yankees bat boy salary is more than my professional softball contract,” NPF player and U.S.
The WNBA did recently add a multi-year partnership with CBS Sports Network to air 40 games next season, and the new pact is in addition to the league’s existing deal with ESPN. More TV exposure for the players will lead to more visibility, and more visibility could lead to major deals with endorsers in the future.
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