Roger Federer, in accordance with a report revealed by Porta Sportico, which research the financial facet of sport, is the highest paid tennis player in the world in 2022. With his 85.7 million {dollars} earned in the interval underneath evaluate, the former world no 1 has surpassed all his different colleagues, ladies and men, on this record, the place he ranks eighth globally out of the 100 athletes practising the varied disciplines.
So how does Federer handle to place himself as a report holder in this particular rating? The reply lies in the incontrovertible fact that solely $700,000 comes from playing earnings, which implies that the remaining $85 million comes from sponsorships, which allowed him to enter the prime 10 highest paid sportsmen in the world.
The 20-time Grand Slam champion’s $85 million is amongst the highest earnings in the world, second solely to basketball legend LeBron James. Despite barely taking part in in the final 12 months, Roger #Federer stays the highest paid #tennis player, in accordance with Sportico.
At $85.7m, virtually all from endorsements, he stays in the prime 10 in the world in addition to behind James and Messihttps://t.co/NMBK4LZ0X9 pic.twitter.com/qJJx8TqcqP—Christopher Clarey @christophclarey) May 11 2022
Roger Federer will return to the Laver Cup and Basel
Swiss Champion Roger Federer, who will flip 41 in August, performed his final official match on July 7, 2021, when he surrendered at Wimbledon in three quarter-final units to Hubert Hurkacz.
He has since been stopped in the pits as a result of third surgical procedure on his proper knee. In an interview on March 5 throughout the Women’s Super-G in Lenzerheide (Switzerland), a brand new Alpine Skiing World Cup assembly for sprinters from throughout the world, Federer stated the following phrases: “I am fine.
I walked on crutches for two months and had to start all over again. It was always the right thing to do. The knee was no longer working as it should after the Wimbledon tournament.
He couldn’t go on like this.” He now appears ahead to his return to the discipline first at the Laver Cup (September 23-25) then in Basel (October 22-30) the place, throughout his profession, he has triumphed ten occasions: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019.
Moreover, the Swiss Indoor was additionally the final trophy lifted by Roger Federer in his profession, quantity 103 to be actual.