Federer heads list of 2021 top 10 tennis earners despite only playing 5 events

ROGER FEDERER is a crock of gold!

The Swiss legend was the highest tennis earner for 2021 on £62.4million regardless of enjoying simply 5 tournaments as a consequence of harm.

The 20-time Grand Slam winner is recovering from knee surgical procedure final August that may most likely preserve him out of Wimbledon this summer season.

And as he watches the drama of the Australian Open, together with large rival Novak Djokovic’s deportation, Federer stays nicely clear for mixed earnings on and off the courtroom.

The one two ladies within the prime 10 – compiled by Forbes – had been second and third respectively, Japan’s Naomi Osaka with £41m and USA icon Serena Williams on £26.4m – forward of £24.8m earner Djokovic.

No one in tennis serves you higher with regards to a clean-cut popularity than 40-year-old Federer.

But it surely’s truly Osaka who rakes in probably the most away from the enjoying motion, reportedly accruing greater than 90 per cent from offers akin to endorsements with Workday, Tag Heuer and Louis Vuitton.

Nonetheless, the game’s elite earners nonetheless noticed a transparent dip in revenue from the earlier 12 months, £252m in 2020 to £237.5m.

Covid was in fact the primary purpose, as gamers ‘suffered’ from a discount in tournaments, exhibition matches and look charges. 

Federer shall be anxious to return to motion this 12 months, notably as he, Djokovic and Rafa Nadal are locked collectively for probably the most majors.

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Within the absence of his two fellow all-time greats, Spaniard Nadal hopes to nip forward this month as he’s into the OZ Open quarter-finals. 

And victory would assist give the left-hander a hefty kick-start to his possibilities of shifting up from sixth within the prime 10.

Japan’s Kei Nishikori pocketed round £19.8m final 12 months, simply forward of Nadal’s £19.7m.

Then comes an enormous drop to tb better of the remainder

Russian Daniil Medvedev is seventh on £10.9m, adopted by Austria’s Dominic Thiem with £8.1m, Greek ace  Stefanos Tsitsipas on £5.6m and German hero  Alexander Zverev with £4.1m.