With earnings of $8.5 million, Rio Olympic silver medallist PV Sindhu is the only Indian to feature in Forbes’ list of top 10 highest-paid female athletes of 2018.
Placed at 7th position, Sindhu is the only badminton player in the published list, which features eight tennis players.
Twenty-three-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams tops the list, with $18.1 million total earnings.