Until now, Maria Sharapova is still known as the most beautiful and talented tennis player in Russia. Besides, this beauty also owns a huge fortune. According to statistics from Forbes magazine, Sharapova currently owns assets of up to 350 million USD, unrivaled in the women’s tennis industry. She is even the richest female athlete in the world and on the list of athletes with the largest assets in the world (including both men and women).
Sharapova is so rich because she is beautiful and has received many lucrative advertising contracts. In addition, Masha is also very smart in business as she is doing well with the Sugarpova candy brand. This brand then progressed rapidly, entering the field of fashion and jewelry.
According to Forbes, Russian Doll is not only good at making money from advertising or business contracts, she is also the female tennis player with the 2nd highest prize income of all time, only behind Serena Williams and Venus Williams, even surpassing far away from other legends like Clijsters, Hingis, Davenport or Steffi Graf.
Specifically, Sharapova received a total of 36,480 million USD in prize money, the 2nd highest of all time, just below Serena Williams (81,755 million USD) and Venus Williams 41,801 million USD).
At one point, Sharapova became the female tennis player with the highest participation fee in the WTA tournament system with 500,000 USD in an event.
This is completely logical, because Sharapova has had a successful career with a total of 35 singles titles, including 5 Grand Slams. Masha is also a rare tennis player who has won all 4 Grand Slams in a year.
Before being involved in a doping scandal in 2016, Sharapova’s personal page attracted more than 15 million followers. In 2015, her income was said to reach 30 million USD. Later, when Masha’s career was no longer as flourishing as before, she still became a beloved face of many brands.
In 2019, Sharapova only played a total of 15 matches and fell to 373rd in the world. The last tournament she attended was the Australian Open 2020, where Masha was eliminated in round 1. Sharapova’s farewell to the tennis industry left many regrets for fans. Everyone will no longer be able to see a beautiful, talented and money-making player in the “super” ranks of women’s tennis.
Recently, due to constant injuries, she decided to retire.
