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Two weeks after topping *Sportico*'s list of highest-paid female athletes in the world for the third straight year, Coco Gauff has also ranked as Forbes' highest-earner.

With an estimated $33 million earned in 2025, the world No. 3 racked up the fourth-highest dollar figure for a female athlete ever according to the publication, behind Naomi Osaka's ($57.3 million) and Serena Williams' ($45.9 million) 2021 totals, and her own $34.4 million haul from a year ago.

Both on-court and off-court earnings are factored in Forbes' rankings, with the former rounded to the nearest $100,000 and the latter to the nearest $1 million. Previously tabbed as one of Forbes' 30 Under 30 Sports selections, Gauff was the only athlete in the list to clear a projected $25 million in off-court income over the last 12 months thanks to deals with brands including New Balance, Bose and Baker Tilly.

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“As I’ve gotten older, I don’t want to just be a face of brands, but also be the brand,” Gauff is quoted by Forbes as saying. “My dad has always said that this was his plan for me when I was younger, and it was up to me if I wanted to hop on board or not. And when I became 18, I knew that this is something that I wanted to work for.”

Of the 20 athletes listed by Forbes, half are tennis players. Aryna Sabalenka ($30 million) and Iga Swiatek ($25.1 million) followed Gauff, as they did on the Sportico list, followed by freestyle skier Eileen Gu and then Zheng Qinwen. Gu and Zheng joined Gauff in cracking $20 million in non-competition earnings, at $23 million and $21 million respectively.

Madison Keys, Osaka, Elena Rybakina, and Jessica Pegula all landed in the Top 10, with Amanda Anisimova and Jasmine Paolini landing at No. 11 and No. 17. Nearly half of Rybakina's combined $12.5 million came from the record $5.235 million she won by triumphing at the WTA Finals Riyadh with an undefeated record in November.

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