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Here is the list of the top paid women athletes for 2013, collated from information published by Sports Illustrated Magazine. Sports Illustrated Magazine published in 2013 a Fortunate 50 and International 20, and the following data is provided with these or extracted from these lists.

The highest paid sportswoman for this year was tennis player Maria Sharopova earning 29? million dollars, well short of the 2013 highest paid sportsman Floyd Mayweather Jr. with earnings of 90 million dollars.

Sharopova's earnings placed her in 9th position of all athletes in the combined male and female SI list. Tennis player Li Na was ranked 17th on this list. Another tennis player Caroline Wozniacki was just out of the top 20.

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  Name Country Sport earnings (US$ million) previous year
1. Maria Sharapova Russia Tennis $25.5?  
2. Li Na     $19.0?  
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