Novak Djokovic is barred from entering the U. S. because he has not received the Covid-19 vaccine. Roger Federer remains sidelined with a knee injury. Serena Williams will be playing what is expected to be her final Grand Slam, and Rafael Nadal, hampered by an abdominal injury, is openly acknowledging that his own retirement might be imminent. The U. S. Open, which begins in New York on Monday with $2.6 million to be paid to the singles champions, can no longer count on those four stars to light up its field year after year. But plenty of up-and-comers are ready to replace them in tennis’ firmament—and they’re already making headway financially. At age 41, Federer remains the world’s highest-paid tennis player for the 17th straight year, hauling in an estimated $90 million before taxes and agents’ fees over the last 12 months despite not playing a single match, but second place now firmly belongs to 24-year-old Naomi Osaka, who made an estimated $56.2 million this past year. She’s followed in the top five by Williams ($35.1 million), Nadal ($31.4 million) and Djokovic ($27.1 million), but coming up right behind them is 19-year-old Emma Raducanu, who makes her debut on Forbes’ tennis earnings leaderboard at No. 6 with $21.1 million. Daniil Medvedev, the 26-year-old Russian who is the world’s top-ranked men’s player, collected an estimated $19.3 million to land at No. 7, and Carlos Alcaraz, a 19-year-old from Spain, jumps onto the leaderboard at No. 10 with $10.9 million. Combined, tennis’ ten top earners made an estimated $316 million, roughly flat from last year’s $320 million and down from 2020’s $343 million. But the group’s off-court total of $285 million from endorsements, appearances and other business endeavors represents an all-time high, topping last year’s $281 million. The infusion of fresh blood is good news for a sport that has been ruled by the same handful of names for the last two decades. The 40-year-old Williams, who announced in an August 9 essay for Vogue that she was preparing to retire, has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles—a record for tennis’ open era—and has earned more than $440 million across her career, easily the all-time high for a female athlete. Her estimated net worth of $260 million ranks her 90th among America’s richest self-made women. On the men’s side, the 36-year-old Nadal, winner of this year’s Australian Open and French Open, has claimed a record 22 Grand Slam singles titles; the 35-year-old Djokovic has 21 after his triumph at Wimbledon last month, and Federer has 20. Across the last 76 Slams, dating to 2003, just 13 men’s singles titles have been won by someone else. And the three superstars have been just as daunting off the court: Federer is one of just seven athletes who have earned at least $1 billion before taxes while Nadal has made an estimated $500 million and Djokovic more than $470 million.


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