Forbes magazine exposed on Tuesday that the tennis stars dominated the list of the world's 10 best-paid female athletes, yet highlighted the yawning earnings gap with their male counterparts in most sports.

Prominent fact comes out that Russia's Maria Sharapova topped the list, published on Forbes.com, earning a total of US$29 million (S$37 million) between June 2012 and June in present year. Tennis took the top four positions, accompanying world number one Serena Williams of the United States (US) second (US$20.5 million), China's Li Na third (US$18.2 million) along with Victoria Azarenka of Belarus fourth (US$15.7 million). Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark was in seventh (US$13.6 million), followed by Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland (US$7.4 million) as well as Serbia's Ana Ivanovic (US$7 million).

(AW:Samrat Biswas)