🔗 Share this article Top-ranked Sabalenka Wins Consecutive WTA Player of the Year Awards. The Belarusian player concluded the tour with an outstanding twenty-three to three Grand Slam win-loss record. The top-ranked player Aryna Sabalenka has been selected the Women's Tennis Association top performer of the year for a second straight season. The twenty-seven-year-old captured four tournament victories – the most on tour – including successfully defending the US Open this past September against Amanda Anisimova to secure her fourth Grand Slam singles triumph. A Season of High Performance Across the season, Sabalenka competed in a tour-best nine championship matches, with losses coming to Madison Keys in the Australian Open final in January and Coco Gauff in June's French Open final. The star player also triumphed at the Brisbane International in January, the Miami Open during the spring, and the Madrid Open in May. She remained the entire year as the world number one, concluding 2025 on top of the rankings for a second successive year. This past summer, she became the first athlete to exceed 12,000 WTA ranking points after Serena Williams in 2015. Historic Achievements Sabalenka finished the competitive year with a sixty-three to twelve match record, and picked up a historic eleven million pounds in prize money. She earned almost eighty percent of the votes cast by international tennis media. Later this month, she is scheduled to face 2022 Wimbledon runner-up Nick Kyrgios in a high-profile mixed-gender exhibition match with the aim of "raise women's tennis to a higher level". Additional WTA Award Recipients Returning Star of the Year: Switzerland's Belinda Bencic, twenty-eight, was voted after taking a extended hiatus following the birth of her first child and returning to the sport earlier this season. Rookie of the Year: Canadian 19-year-old Victoria Mboko picked up the award after starting the season positioned beyond 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 career Grand Slam title as a pair. Biggest Leap of the Year: Amanda Anisimova received the accolade after reaching five championship matches. Recently, Carlos Alcaraz secured three honours in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Awards, including the season-ending top rank award, while Jannik Sinner was voted fans' favourite for a third consecutive time.