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American ATP 500 tennis champion
Tommy Paul
Base case$24M
Estimate confidence
★★★★★
2 out of 5
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Samantha Stosur Net Worth Estimate
Retired US Open singles champion and world No. 1 doubles tennis playerSamantha Stosur's independently modeled net worth centers on $24M within $9M-$56M alternatives. Her official WTA career prize ledger totals $20,070,126 in historical gross winnings rather than present retained assets.
Published estimateReviewed Oct 22, 2026
Research context
See what supports this page, how current it is, and where comparable or historical context is available.
- Evidence
- 3 retained sourcesReviewed through Oct 22, 2026
- Change history
- 1 tracked snapshotComparable tracking began Sep 18, 2026
- Comparison context
- 1 reviewed peer rankingPeer lists preserve the same base-case estimate and uncertainty range.
Current estimate
What we can support today
Base case
$24M
Bear case
$9M
Bull case
$56M
Estimate confidence
2 out of 5
Why this estimate
- Main wealth driver
- Possible personally retained tennis and commercial capital ($24M base case)
- Estimate confidence
- 2 out of 5
- Key evidence
- WTA's career ledger reports $20,070,126 of total historical gross tennis prizes as of the source review. Earlier $20,069,776 total is a previous cumulative observation, not an additional income event.Sources[1]
- Biggest uncertainty
- How much of gross cumulative WTA prizes survived professional costs and income tax?
- Evidence reviewed through
- Oct 22, 2026
Base case is our central scenario. Bear and bull cases show how uncertainty around private holdings, retained proceeds, taxes and liabilities can move the estimate.
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Scenario composition
Where the estimated wealth comes from
Switch scenarios to see how the total and each component move together. The bars show each positive component's share of the estimated assets in that scenario, not audited holdings.
Bear scenario net worth$9MPositive estimated assets shown: $9M
Possible personally retained tennis and commercial capital
$9M to $56M range$9M100%
Base scenario net worth$24MPositive estimated assets shown: $24M
Possible personally retained tennis and commercial capital
$9M to $56M range$24M100%
Bull scenario net worth$56MPositive estimated assets shown: $56M
Possible personally retained tennis and commercial capital
$9M to $56M range$56M100%
How Samantha Stosur Built a Fortune
Samantha Stosur became the 2011 US Open singles champion by defeating Serena Williams and also reached world No. 1 in doubles. Four women's doubles major titles, earned with Lisa Raymond and Zhang Shuai, give her earnings history a wider scope than a singles-only résumé. The WTA's career earnings figure should not be described as prize money solely from the US Open title.
Her current WTA retired-player ledger lists $20,070,126 of cumulative gross career tournament prizes. A July 2024 WTA record book showed $20,069,776. Those figures are successive readings of the same lifetime tournament record, differing by $350, not independent earnings streams or net assets.
Stosur stopped playing singles after the 2022 Australian Open but continued doubles for another season. The WTA announced in January 2023 that the Australian Open would be her final tournament. Her career therefore has different singles and doubles endpoints, a distinction that matters for explaining prize history but reveals nothing about separate off-court investments or sponsorship balances.
The central $24M personal-wealth case, with $9M downside and $56M upside, considers potential prize savings and commercial activity without assuming every gross tournament dollar was retained. Actual after-tax income, professional-team costs, investments and debts remain outside the public career-statistics record.
Sources[1][2][3]Observed assets and financial anchors
A reported salary, company sale or brand valuation is not automatically current personal wealth. We show the pieces that can be tied to retained evidence and keep historical flows separate.
No major component is directly observable as a precise current valueThis estimate is built from source-backed financial anchors and explicitly modeled scenario ranges rather than pretending a private balance sheet is directly observable.
Historical flow
WTA's career ledger reports $20,070,126 of total historical gross tennis prizes as of the source review. Earlier $20,069,776 total is a previous cumulative observation, not an additional income event.
Sources[1]Context
Stosur defeated Serena Williams to win the 2011 US Open singles title and won four women's doubles Grand Slam titles. She retired from singles after the 2022 Australian Open and announced her doubles retirement at the 2023 Australian Open.
Sources[2]Context
The singles and doubles retirement dates differ, and the WTA prize total is a career-wide ledger rather than singles earnings alone. No separate amount for the doubles portion is provided here.
Sources[3]Scenario balance sheet
WTA currently lists $20,070,126 in lifetime gross career tournament prize money for Samantha Stosur. An earlier official WTA reference from 2024-07-15 recorded $20,069,776; both are observations of one cumulative ledger, not additive payments or a present asset value. Stosur defeated Serena Williams to win the 2011 US Open singles title and won four women's doubles Grand Slam titles. She retired from singles after the 2022 Australian Open and announced her doubles retirement at the 2023 Australian Open. The singles and doubles retirement dates differ, and the WTA prize total is a career-wide ledger rather than singles earnings alone. No separate amount for the doubles portion is provided here. The $24M central personal-wealth scenario, between $9M and $56M, allows for unknown tax, professional expenses, current investments, liabilities and sponsorship or business income; none of the reported gross prize total is presumed to remain in cash.
| Component | Bear | Base | Bull |
|---|---|---|---|
| Possible personally retained tennis and commercial capitalSources[1][2][3] | $9M | $24M | $56M |
| Estimated net worth | $9M | $24M | $56M |
Modeled component
Possible personally retained tennis and commercial capital
WTA currently lists $20,070,126 in lifetime gross career tournament prize money for Samantha Stosur. An earlier official WTA reference from 2024-07-15 recorded $20,069,776; both are observations of one cumulative ledger, not additive payments or a present asset value. Stosur defeated Serena Williams to win the 2011 US Open singles title and won four women's doubles Grand Slam titles. She retired from singles after the 2022 Australian Open and announced her doubles retirement at the 2023 Australian Open. The singles and doubles retirement dates differ, and the WTA prize total is a career-wide ledger rather than singles earnings alone. No separate amount for the doubles portion is provided here. The $24M central personal-wealth scenario, between $9M and $56M, allows for unknown tax, professional expenses, current investments, liabilities and sponsorship or business income; none of the reported gross prize total is presumed to remain in cash.
Sources[1][2][3]Tracked estimates
Estimate history
We began retaining comparable estimate snapshots on Sep 18, 2026. Earlier Grizzly Bulls figures are not reconstructed unless a retained snapshot exists.
- Current tracked estimateBase case$24MBear to bull$9M to $56M
First personal net-wealth cases recognize combined singles and doubles career prize history without booking either retirement date or gross prizes as current cash.
This is the first retained snapshot, so there is no earlier comparable Grizzly Bulls estimate to show yet.
What could move the estimate
- How much of gross cumulative WTA prizes survived professional costs and income tax?
- Which current financial assets, liabilities, sponsor payments or private businesses are beneficially owned?
- Are there any independently verifiable current cash flows from professional, media or commercial activity?
Wealth timeline
Stosur prepares for Australian Open swan song: 'I know there will be tears'
The singles and doubles retirement dates differ, and the WTA prize total is a career-wide ledger rather than singles earnings alone. No separate amount for the doubles portion is provided here.
Sources[3]Former US Open champion Sam Stosur set to retire at Australian Open
Stosur defeated Serena Williams to win the 2011 US Open singles title and won four women's doubles Grand Slam titles. She retired from singles after the 2022 Australian Open and announced her doubles retirement at the 2023 Australian Open.
Sources[2]Official WTA lifetime prize-money ledger reviewed
$20,070,126 is historical gross cumulative tournament pay, not 2026 current assets.
Sources[1]
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Sources
Numbered citations above link to the retained sources below. External net-worth headlines do not set our estimate.
- [1]WTAOfficial record · Oct 22, 2026Samantha Stosur official career prize ledger
- [2]WTAOfficial record · Jan 15, 2023Former US Open champion Sam Stosur set to retire at Australian Open
- [3]WTAOfficial record · Jan 17, 2022Stosur prepares for Australian Open swan song: 'I know there will be tears'
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