Tennis star Coco Gauff recently shared that she purchased a home in Delray Beach, Florida. With the 2024 season—and WTA Finals title—behind her, she could be purchasing quite a few more homes, as her $4.8 million prize money check she earned in Saudi Arabia, according to the WTA, for winning the WTA Finals pushed her beyond $20 million earned in her career.
The 20-year-old American star becomes the first player—men or women—born in 2004 or later to reach that mark and has now slipped into the top-25 all-time on the WTA on-court earnings list.
In 2023, Forbes valuations marked Gauff as the number-three earner in women’s sports—behind fellow tennis player Iga Swiatek and freestyle skier Eileen Gu—with Gauff valued at $21.7 million thanks to roughly $15 million in off-court earnings. And while Gauff’s endorsement opportunities show no signs of slowing, it is her on-court success that is leading both the prize money and opportunity to grow the endorsement portfolio.
Known as a lead athlete for New Balance, complete with the only signature shoe for an active athlete in the sport of tennis, Gauff also has deals with Bose, UPS and plenty others. But it was the $4.8 million in Riyadh that pushed the Florida resident past the brink of the $20 million mark in career prize money, a feat that puts her in the top-25 all-time for WTA career prize money earners.
Following the win, Gauff was surprised to learn about the size of the prize. “I didn’t know, like I knew it was some money, but I didn’t know that much,” she said, adding “that’s a lot of money.”
Serena Williams shattered all records with $94 million earned in her career, while sister Venus Williams is second all-time with $42 million. Simona Halep at $40 million is the only other player at $40 million or more. The list of players in the $30 million club include Maria Sharapova, Victoria Azarenka, Petra Kvitova, Caroline Wozniacki, Swiatek, Angelique Kerber and Aryna Sabalenka, who passed the $30 million mark in career prize money at the same tournament by earning just over $1 million in Saudi Arabia.
Gauff joins 14 other women in the $20 million club, including legends Martina Navratilova and Steffi Graf, while creeping up on Naomi Osaka on the list.
At just 20 years old, Gauff’s career prize money mark makes her the fourth player born in the 2000s to reach the landmark, male or female, joining Swiatek, born in 2001, on the women’s side and both Carlos Alcaraz, born in 2003, and Jannik Sinner, born in 2001, for the men.
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