Tennis star richer than Federer and Djokovic makes history at Wimbledon

Tennis star Emma Navarro has made history by reaching the second round of Wimbledon for the first time.

The 23-year-old American beat Qiang Wang 6-0, 6-2 in her first round match at SW19, to set up a second-round clash with wildcard entrant Naomi Osaka.

However, any prize money on offer for her appearance at this year’s Championships is likely to be of secondary importance – that’s because her father Ben is a billionaire investment tycoon.

Ben is the founder and owner of Sherman Financial Group, which owns Credit One bank.

He has made investments in tennis whilst his daughter makes her name on the tennis circuit, purchasing Charleston Tennis LLC in 2018.

Ben completed the renovation of a 10,000-capacity stadium in Charleston and named the Charleston Open after his Credit One empire before buying the rights to the Western and Southern Open.

And the father and daughter isn’t the only family success story as grandfather Frank Navarro is a former American football player and coach.

That all means her net worth stands at a mindblowing £2.35billion – almost three times the wealth of tennis’ legends including Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal.

The Daily Express reports Federer’s net worth stands at a whopping £431m, with Djokovic at £188m and Nadal worth an estimated £173m.

World No.17 Navarro made her first appearance at a Grand Slam in the 2021 US Open which was won by Britain’s Emma Raducanu.

Navarro was knocked out in the first round at Flushing Meadows by Christina McHale before reaching the second round at last year’s French Open.

She won her first WTA Tour title at the Hobart International earlier this year and registered a third round exit at the Australian Open in January.

Her best career Slam performance came in last month’s French Open where she reached the fourth round.