Monday, November 3, 2008
Roger Federer - a gem is worth a fortune $$$
Roger Federer is now the biggest all time money maker in men’s tennis. He has now surpassed Pete Sampras with career earnings to $43.3 million as he advanced to the third round of the Madrid Masters Tournament last week. According to Sports Business Journal, Federer has one of the most lucrative (supposedly up to 13$ million a year of endorsements) Nike contracts among Nike represented stars such as Tiger Woods ($40 million a year) and Lebron James (7 year $90 million deal). According to the paper, Federer also costs a million dollars for an exhibition in Asia during off season. Today even with these figures, arguably the best player in tennis history, Federer, may even be underpaid compared to greats in other sports.
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I completely agree.I was doing a comparison with tiger.
tiger has taken 14 years to amass 14 majors,66 PGA titles,and 90 million us dollars on course.
roger has taken 7 years to earn 15 majors,60 titles and only 50 million in prize money.
tigers endorsements to date are 800 million.
rogers is only 65 million.
that's a huge difference.
i believe roger should go down with Ali,Pele,Tiger and Jordan as the greatest sportsmen of all time,but i think because he is NOT American he will not get the recognition he deserves.
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