Forbes magazine named the highest paid female athletes of the world.

This ranking took into account earnings from June 2017 to June 1, 2018.

Note that eight places out of ten were taken by representatives of tennis. The first line went to the legendary Serene Williams. In total for this period, she earned $ 18.1 million. Interestingly, the prize Williams of this amount was only 62 thousand dollars. All the rest - sponsorship contracts.

The second position belongs to Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark, tennis). 13 million in total: 7 - prize money, 6 - sponsors.

The third was Sloan Stevens (USA, tennis). 11,2 total: 5,7 - prize money, 5. 5 - Sponsors.

The overall rating looks like this:.

Garbinje Mugurus (Spain, tennis). 11 million: 5.5 - prize money, 5.5 - sponsors.

Maria Sharapova (Russia, tennis). 10.5 million: 1 - prize money, 9.5 - sponsors.

Venus Williams (USA, tennis). 10.2 million: 4.2 - prize money, 6 - sponsors.

Pusarla Venkata Sindhu (India, badminton). 8.5 million: 500 thousand - prize money, 8 - sponsors.

Simone Halep (Romania, tennis). 7.7 million: 6.2 - prize money, 1.5 - sponsors.

Danica Patrick, (USA, auto racing). 7,5 million: 3 salaries / prizes, 4,5 - sponsors.

10. Angelik Kerber (Germany, tennis). 7 million: 3 prize money, 4 - sponsors.

Earlier it was reported that American boxer Floyd Mayweather was recognized as the richest sportsman in 2017.