French Open star Sloane Stephens has twice the online price of ex-Sunderland partner

May 30, 2023 at 1:21 PM
French Open star Sloane Stephens has twice the online price of ex-Sunderland partner

American tennis star Sloane Stephens stands to make a cool €2.3m (£1.8m) if she will win the French Open at Roland-Garros. But even when the world quantity 30 can not attain the Paris closing, as she did in 2018, she’s going to nonetheless be significantly higher off than her footballer husband, Jozy Altidore.

Stephens is into the second spherical of the clay courtroom Grand Slam match after beating Czech star Karolina Pliskova 6-0, 6-4 and can now face Varvara Gracheva of Russia on Wednesday.

With one Grand Slam title to her title – the 2017 US Open – 30-year-old Stephens has loved a strong profession, with seven tour wins and a career-high rating of quantity three again in 2018.

But her earnings off the courtroom have been simply as spectacular as something achieved on it, leaving her US Soccer worldwide partner in her wake.

The pair married in January 2022, when Altidore was nonetheless on the books of Toronto FC. Shortly after, he moved to New England Revolution on a free switch, the place he plies his commerce right now.

The 33-year-old earns round $2m per 12 months from his Major League Soccer contract however endorsements with the likes of Apple, Puma and Adidas has helped to spice up that whole considerably.

After years of partnering with Adidas, the previous Sunderland striker turned often called the face of Puma in North America.

According to Filmsyappa, Altidore has a internet price of $10m – a determine that has elevated steadily since 2018. But that may be a drop within the ocean in comparison with his tennis-playing spouse Stephens. Raised in a profitable sporting household, she turned skilled as a youngster in 2009 and hit the headlines when she defeated Serena Williams within the quarter-finals of the 2013 Australian Open.

But after overcoming a foot damage to win the US Open in 2017, the $3.7m she pocketed, consequently, was practically half of her earnings as much as that time in her profession.

Lucrative endorsement partnerships have taken her wealth to a distinct degree, nevertheless. She has offers with Nike, Mercedes Benz, Under Armour and Rolex.

The finish result’s a internet price of $20m, in accordance with Celebrity Net Worth – double that of her husband Altidore, not that the 33-year-old veteran ahead will likely be complaining an excessive amount of.

The sporting couple had been childhood buddies in Florida however drifted aside as they chased careers of their respective sports activities.

But a reunion in 2016 put their lives collectively again on target. Alitodire advised VOGUE: “I was doing a media scrum in the hallway during a US Mens National team camp. Sloane was there training for Fed Cup in Hawaii. Sloane turned the corner while having a loud conversation on FaceTime.

“We locked eyes and began speaking throughout the scrum. We exchanged contacts and went to dinner after my sport versus Iceland. The relaxation was historical past.”