Sloane Stephens Net Worth
Sloane Stephens was born on the 20th March 1993, in Plantation, Florida USA of African and American descent. She is known for being a professional tennis player, who has won four singles titles on the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) tour, which sees her rankedr the world No. 21 tennis player in women’s singles. Her professional tennis career has been active since 2007.
So, have you ever wondered how rich is Sloane Stephens? Sources estimate that the total size of Sloane’s net worth is over $1.5 million as of early 2016, with the main source of this amount of money being, of course, her career as a tennis player. Additionally to this, she has several lucrative endorsement contracts, and these are also adding to her wealth. Undoubtedly, her net worth will become higher as she successfully continues her career.
Sloane Stephens Net Worth $1.5 Million
Sloane Stephens was brought up by her mother Sybil Smith, who was a swimmer, and her father John Stephens, who was a professional football player. Under the influence of her mother, Sloane started to play tennis when she was nine years old, at the Sierra Sport and Racquet Club in Fresno, California. She excelled there, thus, she transferred to the prestigious Evert Tennis Academy in Boca Raton, Florida, just two years later. Then, she became a part of the Nick Saviano High Performance Tennis Academy, from which she graduated in 2011.
Sloane’s professional career began in 2007, when she entered the ITF tour. In no time, she received a wild-card invitation to her first WTA tournament, the Sony Ericson Open in Miami in 2008. Until 2010, she had moderate success on ITF tournaments, and participated in several WTA tournaments, recording her first win in the WTA Tour against Lenka Wienerová, at the LA Women’s Tennis Championships. Ever since then her career has gone only upwards, and so has her net worth.
During the 2010 and 2011 seasons, she was rather successful, as she entered the top 100 women tennis players, as she finished season as the 97th ranked tennis player on the WTA list. During those two seasons, she won matches against such players as Jamie Hampton, Anastasia Pivovarova, Julia Görges, and Shahar Pe’er among others, which increased her net worth to a large degree.
She continued successfully into the 2012, eventually reaching No. 50 in the WTA rankings, achieving several notable career results, including the third round of the Miami Masters, semi-finals of Strasbourg, semi-finals of Citi Open, and third round of Wimbledon, which certainly increased the overall size of her net worth considerably.
After that her game performance began to decline, and until 2015 she didn’t have any notable results until she won her first title at the Citi Open in Washington, defeating Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, increasing further her net worth. In 2016, Sloane won three more titles, the most recent one at the Charleston Open on 10th April. Before that she won Abierto Mexicano Telcel and ASB Classic, defeating Dominika Cibulkova and Julia Georges respectively.
When it comes to Grand Slam tournaments, Sloane hasn’t had much success, as she has only reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open once, in 2013, and was eliminated in the quarter finals at Wimbledon the same year. Sloane has reached the fourth round of the French Open four times, and quarter finals of the US Open in the 2013 season, all of which contributed significantly to her net worth.
Sloane is ranked at number 25 on the WTA Women’s singles list as of mid-2016.
Speaking about her personal life, little is known in the media about Sloane Stephens, although she is very active on her official Instagram profile in her spare time. Any relationship she keeps very private. Her current residence is in Coral Springs, Florida.
