World's Highest Paid Female Olympians
2. Li Na
Earnings: $18.4 million
Li Na is currently the top ranked Chinese professional player. She has to her credit 5 WTA and 19 IFT singles titles. In 2011 when she won the French Open Singles title she became the first player ever from China to win a Grand Slam in the singles section. At the moments she is ranked 11th in the world.
She comes in at the number 2nd spot among the top-paid women athletics in the Olympics. She earned 418.4 million between July 2011 and July 2012. Though her outing at the London Olympics didn’t end in a gold medal as she exited in the first round of the singles tournament and also lost in the doubles match.
Endorsement List: After her win at the 2011 French Grand Slam she signed a 3 year multimillion dollar endorsement deal with Mercedes- Benz, Samsung Electronics and many Chinese firms.
