🔗 Share this article Dominant Aryna Sabalenka Claims Consecutive WTA Player of the Year Accolades. The Belarusian player ended the season with an outstanding 23-3 Grand Slam win-loss record. The top-ranked player Aryna Sabalenka has been chosen the Women's Tennis Association top performer of the year for a second straight season. The 27-year-old won four tournament victories – the most on tour – including successfully defending the US Open in September against Amanda Anisimova to claim her fourth career Grand Slam singles championship. A Season of Consistency Over the course of the tour, Sabalenka competed in a tour-best nine finals, with defeats coming against Madison Keys in the Australian Open final at the start of the year and Coco Gauff in the French Open final. The star player also claimed victory at the Brisbane International early in the season, the Miami Open during the spring, and the Madrid Open in May. She spent the entire year as the world number one, concluding 2025 atop the rankings for a second successive year. This past summer, she became the first player to exceed 12,000 WTA ranking points since Serena Williams did so nearly a decade ago. Record-Breaking Achievements Sabalenka ended the season with a sixty-three to twelve win-loss record, and picked up a historic eleven million pounds in prize money. She garnered almost 80% of the votes submitted by global tennis journalists. Later this month, she is poised to compete against 2022 Wimbledon finalist Nick Kyrgios in a Battle of the Sexes-style exhibition match in a bid to "elevate women's tennis to a new level". Other WTA Award Winners Comeback Player of the Year: Switzerland's Belinda Bencic, 28, received the award after taking 13-month break after the arrival of her first child and returning to the sport at the start of this year. Fresh Face of the Year: Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko was honored with the award after starting the season positioned outside the world's top 300 and rising to the eighteenth spot. Doubles Team of the Year: Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend were voted after capturing their second Grand Slam title together. Most Improved Player of the Year: Amanda Anisimova was named after advancing to five finals. Recently, Carlos Alcaraz took home three awards in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Awards, which included the year-end number one award, while Jannik Sinner was chosen as fans' favourite for a third time.