The trio rank among the wealthiest sportsmen in the world, but the family wealth of a current top 10 player eclipses all their many millions combined.
Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Novak Djokovic have dominated men’s singles tennis for two decades, raking in vast fortunes from sponsorships and prize money in the process.
All three are counted among richest non-car athletes but the family fortune of a currently top-10 player is more than many millions away from this accumulated sum.
Jessica Pegula, aged 30, is one of the most famous players on the international tennis circuit, at one point reaching a career ranking of second in the US only to Coco Gauff.
Indeed, the American has not ever won any Grand Slam tournament, where she reached the quarterfinals of six consecutive Slam tournaments without advancing even deeper, but she clinched six singles titles and seven partnership crowns at the WTA Tour as well as three WTA 1000 crowns in singles and two in doubles.
But while she’s made plenty of money from the game, she stands to be worth a truly staggering sum one day thanks to her multi-billionaire parents.
Pegula is reportedly poised to be one of the inheritors of her father Terry, who has built a colossal sports empire in the US and owns the Buffalo Bills in the NFL and the Buffalo Sabres in the NHL with Jessica’s mum, Kim.
Her father made his fortune in the oil and gas sectors and boasts an incredible net worth of around £5.7billion, according to Forbes.
The family’s impressive wealth technically makes Pegula far richer than icons of the men’s game, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, whose fortunes are estimated to be less than a billion between them.
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Federer has racked up a reported fortune of $550million (£433.2m) through career earnings and endorsement opportunities, while Nadal is estimated to be worth $220million (£173.3m) and Djokovic at $240million (£188.9m).
Pegula has had to endure all sorts of unfair criticisms for not having made Slam finals in the ultra-competitive arena of tennis and one of the headlines in the summer last year said this simply: She lacks a ‘dynamic’ that moneybags pegged at billions cannot provide..
However, in a recent interview with MailOnline she specified the fact that the Pegulas did not become hugely rich until she was a teenage.
They make such outrageous assumptions, people do,” she said. Well I did not really come from a billionaire family, most of that did not happen to me until I was rather older and playing
The dream for me has always been since I was a young man – or young boy – at six or seven, to be the number one player in the world. Well, before much of this other things came into the picture. I mean, prior to that, I was simply a child who lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and took lessons after school.
‘So I think that’s just the kind of difference that maybe the casual fan kind of doesn’t get as well,’ she said.