Li Na‘s French Open title propelled her in the world of sponsorships and fashion. As you may have noticed, I’m all for it, it’s refreshing to have an Asian in the mix. The image above is from the Chinese edition of the Marie Claire magazine. Doesn’t Li look stunning?
The 29-year-old is earning nice amounts of money by virtue of her tennis success and she finished 8th in the Forbes list of the highest-paid female athletes, however, the Chinese prefers spending her husband’s money 
”I still like to use my husband’s credit card because I want to save my money,” Li joked.
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The 24-year-old Maria Sharapova did make the final of Wimbledon, but the greatestshare in her $25 million fortune earned in the one-year period came from lucrative deals with Nike, Head, Evian, Clear Shampoo, Sony Ericsson, Tiffany, Tag Heuer, and Cole Haan.
World No.1 tennis player Caroline Wozniacki occupies the second position in the list with twice smaller earnings of $12.5 ($6 million from tournaments and $6.5 million from sponsors). The 21-year-old Wozniacki has deals with Adidas, Yonex, Compeed and Oriflame.
THE HIGHEST-PAID FEMALE ATHLETES
1. Maria Sharapova
2. Caroline Wozniacki
3. Danica Patrick (auto racing driver)
4. Venus Williams
5. Kim Clijsters
6. Serena Williams
7. Kim Yu-na (figure skater)
8. Li Na
9. Ana Ivanovic
10. Paula Creamer (golfer)
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Alla Kudryatseva, who was the first to break the news about Elena Dementieva’s wedding, took her reporting job seriously and didn’t leave the story half told. Thanks to her we have the opportunity to see many picturesfrom the Moscow wedding and there is also a video from Russian Life News.
The 29-year-old Dementieva, remembered as one of the nicest WTA stars, looked like a princess in her wedding dress.
Dementieva’s husband is a famous Russian ice hockey player, Maxim Afinogenov, and many athletes attended the wedding of this sports couple. As for Elena’s colleagues, there were Vera Dushevina, Dinara Safina, Maria Kirilenko, Vera Zvonareva, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Ekaterina Makarova.
