Introduction

Mary Pierce is a Canadian retired professional tennis player with an estimated net worth of $14 Million.

Quick Facts

• Earned approximately $9.79 million in prize money during her career
• Peak annual winnings of $2.13 million in 2005

Early Life 

Mary Caroline Pierce was born January 15, 1975, in Montreal, Canada, to Yannick Adjaj and Jim Pierce. Her mother is French, and her father is American, which qualifies her for citizenship in France, the United States, and Canada.

Growing up, Mary was raised in the United States and started playing tennis at the age of 10. She became the youngest American player to make her professional tour debut at the age of 14.

Tennis Career 

Mary Pierce won her first WTA Tour singles title in 1991, and two years later, she filed a restraining order against her father for verbal abuse against her and her opponents.

In 1994, Mary reached her first Grand Slam singles final at the French Open, and the following year won her first Grand Slam at the Australian Open. While the next couple of years saw a number of setbacks, in 1997, she returned to the Australian Open, but was defeated by Martina Hingis in straight sets.

Pierce managed to win her second Grand Slam doubles title in 2000 at the French Open, where she became the first French woman to claim the title since 1967. Four years later, Pierce defeated Maria Sharapova at the US Open but lost to Svetlana Kuznetsova in the fourth round.

In 2006, her first tournament was the Australian Open, but she lost quickly in the second round and, due to injuries, was forced to withdraw from Wimbledon and the French Open. Although she made a recovery, she was unable to find victory at the US, Luxembourg, or Zurich Opens, despite playing well at the beginning of each tournament. Pierce suffered a torn knee ligament in 2006, and while she was forced to miss the rest of the season, she stated she wasn’t ready to retire.

Despite her determination to continue, she never played another match but did make an appearance at the 2007 French Open, where an avenue was named in her honor. While she never played again, she did become one of only three women, including Caroline Wozniacki and Ana Ivanovic, to win both the championship and the wooden spoon at a Grand Slam tournament.

Prize Money

Mary Pierce earned enough during her career to be considered one of the world’s wealthiest tennis players, and this ranking she retains today. According to the official WTA website, Pierce earned a total of $9.79 million in prize money during her career. We’ve researched her winnings for individual years to understand how Mary’s earnings progressed throughout her career. Unfortunately, we were unable to confirm exact figures for four years (1992-1995), but we know that Pierce earned roughly $3 million during this period.

Early Career Winnings

Between 1989 and 1991, the three years prior, Mary Pierce began her career with modest winnings of just $8,000, which increased to $91,653 by 1991. In 1995, we know that Pierce won in the ballpark of $680,000 that year, primarily thanks to her $299,196 payday for winning the Australian Open. Her earnings dropped to $195,570 the following year, but bounced back to the $650,000 level from 1997 to 1998. 

Highest-Earning Years

During the remainder of Pierce’s career, from 2000 through 2006, her annual winnings fluctuated quite significantly, typically ranging between $80,000 and $300,000 for five of the seven years. However, two years stand out in particular: 2000 and 2005. In the former, she earned approximately $1.21 million from prize money, of which almost 50% ($579,000) was gained from winning the 2000 French Open. She also won the Family Circle Cup that year, which contributed an additional $166,000 to her winnings.

On the other hand, 2005 is the highest-earning year of Mary Pierce’s career, according to prize money records. She earned approximately $2.13 million from tournaments that year, including three paydays in the ballpark of half a million dollars. Pierce’s most lucrative tournaments in 2005 were as follows:

1. US Open (1st) – $501,849
2. WTA Finals (2nd) – $500,000
3. French Open (2nd) – $497,813
4. Ladies Kremlin Cup (1st) – $189,000
5. Acura Classic (1st) – $189,000

Personal Life

Mary Pierce was briefly engaged to Roberto Alomar in 1999 and later to Air France pilot Emmanuel Ades, but ultimately broke off both engagements. Although Mary had a difficult relationship with her father, the pair did reconcile shortly before she retired, an event she attributes to her conversion to Christianity.

Awards & Achievements

Here are some of Mary Pierce’s greatest career achievements:

• Pierce won her first Grand Slam title at the Australian Open in 1995.
• In 1997, Pierce won the Comeback Player of the Year Award.
• Pierce won four titles in 1998: the Paris Indoor event, the Kremlin Cup, the Luxembourg Open, and the Amelia Island Championships.
• In 2000, Pierce won her second Grand Slam singles title at the French Open.
• Inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame (2019)

How Does Mary Pierce Spend Her Money?

Since stepping away from the court, Mary Pierce has set up shop not in an expensive city but on the small island nation of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. She now enjoys living an unassuming life on the island but doesn’t flaunt her wealth.

There are no mentions of her having an extraordinarily lavish house, and instead, it appears she dedicates much of her time to the Black River church in her local community. However, she still remains active in tennis, coaching her siblings, Emmanuelle and Amaury de Beer, whom she hopes will make it onto ITF satellite tours.

Aside from this, we know that she often goes boating with her friends on the turquoise waters surrounding Mauritius, though there is no info on whether she rents or owns her boat.

Summary 

Mary Pierce is a highly accomplished former professional tennis player who has earned millions for her talents on the court. Although she retired in 2007, she remains active in the sport as a coach and member of the ITF Tennis Board of Directors.

Introduction

Monica Seles is a Serbian-American former world No. 1 professional tennis player with an estimated net worth of $50 Million.

While she may no longer play, Seles continues to grow her wealth as a spokesperson for Shire Pharmaceuticals.

Early Life 

Monica Seles was born December 2, 1973, in Novi Sad, SFR Yugoslavia (now Serbia), to an ethnic Hungarian family. Her parents, Ester and Karolj, supported her interest in tennis from a young age, and her father even served as her first coach.

In 1985, when she was 11, Monica won the Junior Orange Bowl tournament in Miami, Florida, and caught the attention of tennis coach Nick Bollettieri, who encouraged her to enroll at his tennis academy.

Seles and her brother moved to the United States in 1986, and Monica trained for two years at Bollettieri’s. Under his tutelage, Monica won her first professional tournament as an amateur in 1988.

Tennis Career 

Monica Seles officially began her professional tennis career in 1990, and she quickly embarked on a 36-match winning streak, claiming victory in six consecutive tournaments. Seles then won her first Grand Slam singles title at the French Open, facing off against then-No. 1 player Steffi Graf to become the youngest-ever French Open singles champion at the age of 16.

In 1991, Seles once again started dominating women’s tennis tour events, winning the Australian Open, the French Open, and the US Open, titles she successfully defended the following season.

Unfortunately, things would take a turn for the worse in 1993, when, after defeating Steffi Graf once more at the Australian Open, Seles was stabbed during the quarterfinal match at the Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany. During this match, a man named Gunter Parche stabbed Seles with a boning knife between her shoulder blades in an attempt to end her tennis career.

Parche was allegedly a huge fan of Graf, and due to Seles having beaten her, he was attempting to remove her from the game permanently. While her physical injuries healed within several weeks, it took Seles more than two years to return to competitive tennis. After becoming a US citizen in 1994, Seles returned to the court in 1995, and the WTA president proposed that she be reinstated as the joint number one player alongside Graf.

Seles won her first comeback tournament at the Canadian Open, followed closely by the US Open, and her fourth Australian Open in 1996. However, after this point, she never won another Grand Slam but did defeat Venus Williams and Lindsey Davenport during her final tour before retiring in 2003. 

Prize Money

With her talents, Monica Seles has become one of the wealthiest tennis players in the world, earning a substantial fortune throughout her career. According to the official WTA website, Seles earned a total of $14.89 million in prize money during her career. We’ve sifted through the official data and calculated her annual winnings for every year of her career.

Early Career Winnings

It didn’t take long for Seles to begin earning seven figures annually in prize money. 1988 was her first year competing as a professional, earning her a small sum of $14,700. The following year, she secured $239,361 in prize money, but as the new decade began, Seles started winning more frequently and took home some impressive winnings.

Peak Career Prize Money

Between 1990 and 1992, Monica Seles earned approximately $6.7 million in prize money. These three years were the highest-earning years of her career, earning her $1.64 million, $2.42 million, and $2.62 million, respectively. This was primarily due to numerous Grand Slam and WTA Finals wins, most notably the French Open, which she won for three consecutive years, earning her:

• $293,000 (1990)
• $378,500 (1991)
• $372,896 (1992)

She also won the WTA Finals twice, earning a combined $500,000, as well as the 1991 US Open, which earned her $400,000, and the 1991 Australian Open, which earned her $234,806.

Additional Winnings

Despite competing for an additional eleven years after her three-year Grand Slam run in the early 1990s, Monica Seles was unable to return to her peak form. For the remainder of her career, Seles typically earned between $600,000 and $1.2 million in annual prize money, with the most notable years being 1996 ($1.15 million), 2000 ($1.14 million), and 2002 ($1.1 million).

Endorsements

In the early 90s, Seles signed a $4 million endorsement deal with Fila to promote their tennis apparel. Seles wore apparel and used equipment from Yonex in the 2000s; however, the amount she earned from the endorsement is unknown.

In 2009, Seles published her memoir Getting A Grip: On My Body, My Mind, My Self, earning her additional income. As of 2015, Seles has served as a paid spokesperson for Shire Pharmaceuticals, promoting their binge eating disorder medication.

Personal Life

Monica Seles married businessman Tom Golisano after becoming engaged in 2014. Although Tom has a daughter, Amy, from a prior marriage, the couple has no children of their own.

In 2009, Seles released her memoir Getting A Grip: On My Body, My Mind, My Self, which talks about her battle with depression and binge eating disorder after her stabbing attack and her father’s cancer diagnosis.

Due to her struggles, Seles has become a spokesperson for Shire Pharmaceuticals, a company that made the first drug approved by the FDA to help treat binge eating disorder.

Real Estate

Monica Seles’s fans got a look at her luxurious house when she put her Florida mansion up for sale in 2015. With an asking price of $1.4 million, her Sarasota estate boasts 5,871 square feet of living space and grand French doors that open out onto a massive pool area. Situated next to the Laurel Oak Country Club, this home seamlessly blends Mediterranean and Classical styles, naturally complemented by a full-sized tennis court.

While there is no information on where she has since moved, in interviews, she has reported downsizing and leaving the Sarasota area.

Summary 

Many consider Monica Seles to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time, and she has left a lasting legacy in the sport. Although she retired in 2008, she continues earning money through investments and as a spokesperson for Shire Pharmaceuticals.

Introduction

Anthony Joshua is a British professional boxer with an estimated net worth of $80 Million.

Joshua is a former unified world heavyweight champion, having held the WBA (Super), IBF, and WBO titles between 2016 and 2019. At the regional level, he held the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles from 2014 to 2016.

Fight Earnings

Anthony Joshua has earned hundreds of millions during his professional boxing career, with paydays ranging from the low seven figures to the mid-eight figures. Although he’s been fighting professionally since 2013, one of his earliest recorded paydays was £1.5 million ($1.9 million) against Eric Molina in 2016.

A year later, he earned approximately £15 million ($18.7 million) and £10 million ($12.5 million) for his victories over Wladimir Klitschko and Carlos Takam. From then onwards, his paychecks typically never dipped below £10 million ($12.5 million). Joshua earned a £16 million ($20 million) payday for his 2018 victory over Joseph Parker, followed by a £20 million ($25 million) payday later that same year against Alexander Povetkin.

Andy Ruiz Jr. Fight Earnings

2019 was the year in which Joshua fought Andy Ruiz Jr. twice, losing the belt in June and regaining the title in December. According to reports, Anthony earned £20 million ($25 million) for the first fight, while Ruiz received roughly £5.4 million ($6.8 million) for his win.

During their rematch, Joshua earned a whopping £46 million ($57.5 million), the single-highest payday of his career, as of 2025. However, Ruiz’s earnings only increased slightly, to approximately £8 million ($10 million).

Oleksandr Usyk Fight Earnings

In 2021, Joshua had his first fight against the Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk. Reports suggest he earned £10 million ($12.5 million), plus 60% of the PPV revenue, for a total of £15 million ($18.7 million).

There appears to have been significant speculation regarding Joshua’s earnings from the second fight, as the figures vary greatly from source to source. However, the general consensus is that Joshua earned roughly £32 million ($40 million), bringing his total from the two fights up to £47 million ($58.7 million).

Additional Fight Earnings

Some of Joshua’s smaller paydays in recent years include £6 million ($7.5 million) against Kubrat Pulev in 2020 and a combined £28 million ($35 million) in 2023 for three fights:

• Jermaine Franklin – £10 million ($12.5 million)
• Robert Helenius – £10 million ($12.5 million)
• Otto Wallin – £8 million ($10 million)

In 2024, he knocked out former UFC Heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou, earning an estimated £40 million ($50 million). Ngannou earned approximately £15.75 million ($19.7 million).

Finally, for his loss to Daniel Dubois in 2025, where Joshua was knocked down four times, he reportedly could have earned as much as $33 million. He was reportedly guaranteed £6 million ($8 million) upfront and received additional income from PPV buys. 

Total Earnings

Excluding his income from additional sources such as endorsements, sponsorships, and his boxing promotion company, Anthony Joshua has earned at least an estimated £250 million ($312.5 million) during his career. However, this doesn’t consider his earnings from fights that took place between 2013 and 2015.

Highlights 

Here are some of the best highlights of Anthony Joshua’s career:

• Super Heavyweight (2009)
• He won the ABA National Championships 91 kg+ in Bethnal Green, London as a Super Heavyweight (2010)
• Super Heavyweight Olympic Gold Medalist as a member of Team GB (2012)