This year's SportsPro 50MM shows a gender split of 56 per cent male and 44 per cent female. The 2022 list features 22 women - more than ever before - with Serena Williams (ranked 2), Naomi Osaka (6), Alex Morgan (8) and highest new entry on the entire list, Australia and Chelsea footballer Sam Kerr (9), all within the top 10 Most Marketable athletes.
Tennis players Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova, Sabina Mirza and Naomi Osaka dominate the top 10 list of most influential women in sport.
Renowned for their incredible sporting achievements, these influential women have also used their platforms to lead conversations around equal pay, mental health and open access to sport.
Oscar-winning superstar Natalie Portman chose a suitably showbiz way of announcing the new name for her National Women's Soccer League side, which will be known as Angel City FC.
The Star Wars actress originally launched the consortium behind the new franchise back in July , alongside fellow celebrity investors such as Serena Williams, Jessica Chastain and Eva Longoria.
Serena Williams has withdrawn from the French Open due to an Achilles injury. The three-times Roland Garros champion made the decision ahead of her second-round meeting with Tsvetana Pironkova.
The US Open finalist has been managing the problem whilst trying to win an elusive 24th Grand Slam singles title having first noticed the injury during her defeat by Victoria Azarenka at...
Serena Williams' quest for an elusive 24th Grand Slam title was put on hold again as she lost to Victoria Azarenka in the semi-finals of the US Open.
It was Azarenka's first victory over Williams at a Grand Slam tournament after 10 previous defeats, including the final at Flushing Meadows in 2012 and 2013.
The 38-year-old Williams needed treatment and heavy strapping for an...
Serena Williams lost to a player outside of the world's top 100 for the first time in eight years after defeat to Shelby Rogers in the quarter-finals of the Top Seed Open in Lexington.
The 23-times Grand Slam winner smashed her way through the first set, taking it 6-1. But Rogers, the world No.116, bounced back for a 1-6, 6-4, 7-6 victory.
Serena Williams recovered from a set and three break points down to beat Bernarda Pera at the Top Seed Open, her first event since February.
The 23-times Grand Slam champion lost the first set 6-4 and was 0-40 on her serve at 4-4 in the second but rallied to a 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 victory to set up a second round match against her sister Venus.
When the two-year-old daughter of the world's greatest-ever female tennis player is named as an investor in a new women's football team, you get a sense this isn't a normal club launch.
In fact, there's nothing normal about the birth of Angel City , the name of the investment group set up to form a new expansion team in the National Women's Soccer League.
Serena Williams has confirmed she will compete in the Top Seed Open in Kentucky from 10-16 August, as the WTA rolls out more events ahead of the US Open.
It will be the 23-times Grand Slam champion's first appearance since the start of the pandemic and has been added to the calendar along with a tournament in Prague on the same dates.
Six-times champion, Serena Williams, wants to play at this year's US Open despite strict restrictions at Flushing Meadow due to the coronavirus crists.
A number of stars have expressed unease at travelling to New York for the tournament which is due to start on 31 August, including Simona Halep, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Nick Kyrgios.
