As per Forbes magazine’s list of top earning tennis players for the period between June 2019 and June 2020, the top 10 tennis players earned a combined $340 million, up from $312 million last year. And Herwig Straka, the manager of US Open champion Dominic Thiem, hopes the Austrian’s brand value will increase after his Grand Slam breakthrough in New York.
Over the past one year, Roger Federer earned a combined $106.3 million from on-court prize money and off-court endorsement deals to top the income list of athletes all over the world. He was followed by Novak Djokovic with earnings of $44.6 million and Rafael Nadal with earnings of $40 million.
Dominic Thiem was at No. 9 on the tennis list with earnings of $11.1 million. In the calendar year 2020 Thiem has won more than $4.7 million in prize money, while his career total earnings are nearly $27 million.
As per Forbes, Thiem, who reached three Grand Slam finals before New York, including this year’s Australian Open final, has endorsement contracts with Adidas, Babolat, Red Bull, Bank Austria, Rolex and Sky Sport.
Dominic Thiem’s manager hopes his US Open win will increase his brand value
According to the Kurier website, Dominic Thiem’s manager said that his US Open win will have increased his market value by 50 per cent, even though the current pandemic has made sponsors more cautious about their budgets.
Straka hopes that the US Open win will reduce the gap between Dominic Thiem and the other big names ahead of him in the earnings list.
Dominic Thiem himself said he does not give that much importance to prize money, but at the same time is happy to play a sport that involves such a high payoff.
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