The first racket of Ukraine Elina Svitolina in the last season has earned record prize money in his career.
Last season the strongest tennis player of Ukraine earned $ 1.67 million – Svitolina for the first time in his career finished in the top 15 of the WTA ranking, which is reflected in her level of income. In the asset Svitolina’s title in the Kuala Lumpur final in new haven and in the small final tournament in Zhuhai, as well as high results in prestigious competitions in Beijing, Dubai, Moscow.
Total career income Svitolina at the end of 2016 exceeded four million dollars. More Ukrainian tennis earned only Andrei Medvedev, Alexander Dolgopolov and Sergiy Stakhovsky.
Behind Svitolina in the ranking of the highest paid tennis players of the year are her colleagues on the racket and the ball – Kateryna Bondarenko during the season earned 627 thousand dollars, Lesya Tsurenko has played for 555 thousand in U.S. currency.
In other sports Ukrainian athletes on such income can only dream of. Legendary sabre fencer Olga Kharlan earned about 200 thousand dollars for the recent medal successes at the Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro, and the strongest chess player of the country Mariya Muzychuk got 80 thousand euros for the match with HOU Yifan
Source – Today.
