Coco Gauff, The World’s Highest-Paid Female Athlete, Celebrates $2.9M In Prize Earnings After French Open Victory
Tennis champ Coco Gauff continues to win and inspire.
For the past two years, Gauff has been the highest-paid female athlete in the world, AFROTECH™ previously reported.
The 21-year-old earned $30.4 million in 2024, which includes her prize earnings and endorsement deals such as Naked Juice, Bose, Wheaties Cereal, Carol’s Daughter, and Rolex.
The Atlanta, GA, native won the 2025 French Open on Saturday, June 7, in Paris, defeating Aryna Sabalenka 6-7, 6-2, 6-4 to secure her second Grand Slam singles title after winning the 2023 U.S. Open. The win marks Gauff’s 10th career title and first Women’s Tennis Association title of the year. Earning $2.9 million from this win brings her total prize earnings to $27.3 million, according to Sportico.
She took to Instagram to reflect on what the win meant to her, shedding light on the doubts she had previously held and overcome.
“Waking up and starting to realize it was indeed not a dream. Losing in the finals here 3 years ago had created a lot of doubt in my head,” Gauff said. “I thought I could never overcome the pressure, I thought holding this trophy would never happen. I thought my dreams were so close to happening, but would never come true. So to be here…. means absolutely everything.”
She added, “The more I started to dig deeper into my thoughts, I realized deep down I didn’t truly believe any of those thoughts, deep down I realized that I can do it and I refused to let those thoughts consume me. The younger Coco would have looked at me crazy because that girl never doubted a thing in her life especially when it came to tennis. But, needless to say, I learned that having doubt enter your head is impossible to escape, but not impossible to overcome. Yesterday was a result of that. I overcame… and if I can, so can you.”
