Forbes solemnly released the 2023 Global Sports Female Athlete Income List. What is surprising is that this and the 2023 female athlete income list released by the American sports finance **sportico quickly caused great controversy on the ** side when it collided. The data and list about who is more authoritative has become the focus of controversy among fans and netizens.
The 2023 earnings list of female athletes released by the American sports finance **sportico is only ten days ahead of Forbes. In addition to the overlap of many names of the female athletes on the list, the two lists emphasize one point in particular: tennis is definitely one of the most lucrative sports in the world.
Of the top fifteen players on the Sportico list, tennis occupies nine spots;In Forbes' top 15 list, tennis occupies ten spots. If you expand the list to the top 20, tennis accounts for 12 spots.
Why did these two lists collide, thus sparking heated debates among fans and netizens?Rankings and sponsorship amounts vary greatly!
In Sportico's list, Gauff ranks first with 22.7 million;Swiatek came in second with 21.9 million;The third place is Gu Ailing (20 million, freestyle skiing);In fourth place is Raducanu (16.2 million);The fifth place is Naomi Osaka (15 million);In sixth place is Sabalenka (12.2 million);In seventh place is Rybakina (9.5 million);The eighth place is Pegula (9 million);In ninth place is Biles (8.5 million, gymnastics);In tenth place is Kodak (7.9 million, Golf);The eleventh is Morgan (6.9 million, football);The twelfth is Rapinoe (6.8 million, football);Fernandez and alpine skier Shifrin are tied for thirteenth, with both earning $6.1 million a yearFifteenth is Abdul-Jabbar (5.7 million).
And in the Forbes top 15 list, Swiatek ranks first with 23.9 million;Gu Ailing ranked second with 22.1 million;Gauff is in third place with 21.7 million;Raducanu is fourth with 15.2 million;Naomi Osaka ranked fifth with 15 million;Sabalenka is sixth with 14.7 million;Pegula is seventh with 12.5 million;Dawei ranked eighth with 12.2 million;Rybakina is ninth with 9.5 million;Fernandez is in tenth place with 8.8 million;Golfer Nellie Korda is 11th with 8.2 millionFootballer Rapinoe is in twelfth place with 8.2 million;Basketball player Candace Parker is thirteenth with 8.1 million;Footballer Alex Morgan is 14th with 7.8 millionZheng Qinwen ranked fifteenth with 7.2 million.
Through the two lists of the world's highest-paid female athletes in 2023, it was found that Forbes and Sportico, which finally released this similar list, are completely different in terms of order, and even the difference is not ordinary. For example, the sports ** Emperor Biles and Tunisia's sister Jabbar can still occupy a place in the latter's top 15 list, but they fell out of the top 15 directly on Forbes' side. Biles was squeezed to No. 16 on the Forbes list, while Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was eighteenth.
In particular, the reversal of Gauff and Swiatek's positions made many fans and netizens unable to understand it.
The American genius girl Gauff won the US Open with her victory, which directly opened up the popularity she had accumulated before and the value brought by the Grand Slam championship, which made the commercial value of the American girl completely blowout. So in the face of these two different lists, many people are still willing to believe that Sportico's data is more accurate.
Although Swiatek is the world No. 1 in women's singles, her commercial value has not been rising, which is also a fact recognized by the outside world. Forbes pushed the Polish girl to the top of this income list, surpassing Gauff in one fell swoop, because of the disparity in sponsorship income.
Swiatek earned $12 million in sponsorship on the Sportico list and $14 million on Forbes;Gauff's sponsorship income at Sportico was as high as 16 million, and at Forbes it was 15 million. As the two go up and down, their rankings will naturally change, which also makes fans and netizens who support the Sportico list very puzzled, wondering where Swiatek's extra $2 million in commercial sponsorship on Forbes comes fromI want to know why Gauff's 1 million sponsorship income was reduced by Forbes, where did these data come from, and the changes in the overall data of the list, so that the same person on the two lists has changed greatly, and what is the basis?
There is another important reason why many people choose to support STORICO, which is a sports finance company, which has been paying close attention to and studying the sports field, so that people think that its list data may be more accurate in terms of accuracy.
In addition, the discrepancy between Forbes' data and SSPORTICO is so big, which has caused many people in the outside world to question it, and it is also related to Zheng Qinwen.
Zheng Qinwen's performance in the 2023 season was very average in the first half of the year, except for the bright spots at the end of the year. As a newcomer to the tennis world, he has not yet played a phenomenal performance in 1000 tournaments and Grand Slams, and in the sports world where competitive performance determines sponsorship income, then Forbes set Zheng Qinwen's commercial sponsorship at $5.5 million, which naturally confuses many people.
Zheng Qinwen currently has about six commercial endorsements in his hands, and the 5.5 million US dollars is nearly 40 million yuan when converted into ** yuan, which is equivalent to a company giving Zheng Qinwen several million yuan. For a newcomer like Zheng Qinwen, many people directly questioned, "Is this possible?"”
Many people pointed out that Li Na and Zheng Jie reached the semifinals of the Grand Slam that year, and they should not have such a high sponsorship income.
Moreover, Zheng Qinwen has been unknown in the sportico list, and in the Forbes list, Zheng Qinwen is not only on the list for the first time, but also directly rushed to the fifteenth place, occupying a very important position. even squeezed out the top fifteen of the body** Emperor Biles, which is deeply puzzling.
In 2017, Biles was able to win the Laureus Women's Competition, becoming the first person in the gymnastics world to win this important award, and it established her irreplaceable position in the gymnastics world. That year, Biles was able to make gymnastics, who was never known as the Oscar of the sports world, make the sport shine on such a big stage, in addition to her impressive record of holding 4 Olympic gold medals and 21 world championship gold medals, as well as her super popularity and popularity around the world.
In addition, gymnastics is very popular in Europe and the United States and other countries, and its popularity is unimaginable. Biles's achievements have already made her an unprecedented god-level figure in the gymnastics world, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to surpass her in the future. Such Biles, in the eyes of gymnastics fans and gymnastics-loving netizens, "Her income in 2023 will never be only 7.1 million listed by Forbes, and the normal estimate will definitely not be less than 8 million." In 2022, Biles earned as much as $10 million before his comeback, and this year's strong comeback won 4 gold medals at the Antwerp Gymnastics World Championships, and the commercial value should be higher, how could it be seriously shrunk to this point. In this regard, the Sportico data is clearly more convincing than Forbes. ”
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