The 11th ranked Sindhu began the season with three opening-round exits on the BWF World Tour. In July, she had slipped to 17, her lowest ranking in a decade after dropping out of the Top 10 in March.
Badminton star PV Sindhu has made it into the list of 2023’s highest paid women athletes by Forbes where she finished at the 16th spot alongside gymnast Simone Biles with her $7.1 million earnings.
Last year Sindhu was placed 12th with her $7.1 million earnings in a list which was led by Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka. Sindhu had broken into the top 10 in the 2018 list with $8.5 million which placed her at 7th.
The 11th ranked Sindhu began the season with three opening-round exits on the BWF World Tour. In July, she had slipped to 17, her lowest ranking in a decade after dropping out of the Top 10 in March.
She was the runner-up at the Madrid Spain Masters, where she beat Mia Blichfeldt and Yeo Jia Min before falling to Gregoria Mariska Tunjung in the final.
Sindhu would finally turn it around at the Arctic Open by making the semifinals, a feat she repeated the following week at the Denmark Open which improved her ranking.
Coming back to the Forbes list, it is being headed by Polish tennis star Iga Swiatek who is valued at $23.9 million. She won the French Open and ended the year as the No.1 ranked player in the world.
She is followed by freestyle skiing star Eileen Gu from China whose value is $22.1 million. Tennis player Coco Gauff comes in at 3rd with $21.7 million while the same sports’ UK’s Emma Raducanu ($15.2 million) Japan’s Naomi Osaka ($15 million), Belarus’s Aryna Sabalenka ($14.7 million), US’s Jessica Pegula ($12.5 million), US’s Venus Williams ($12.2 million), Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina ($9.5 million) and Canada’s Leylah Fernandez ($8.8 million) close out the top 10.
Apart from the tennis dominance, golf and football have two athletes each, while badminton, basketball, gymnastics and freestyle diving have a sole representative.
Source:indianexpress.com