🔗 Share this article Dominant Sabalenka Secures Back-to-Back WTA Player of the Year Awards. Aryna Sabalenka finished the season with an notable twenty-three to three Grand Slam match record. World number one Aryna Sabalenka has been chosen the Women's Tennis Association player of the year for a second straight season. The 27-year-old captured four titles – the most on tour – including successfully defending the US Open this past September versus Amanda Anisimova to earn her fourth Grand Slam singles title. A Year of Consistency Across the season, Sabalenka reached a tour-best nine championship matches, with losses coming to Madison Keys in the Australian Open final at the start of the year and Coco Gauff in June's French Open final. The Belarusian also won the Brisbane International early in the season, the Miami Open during the spring, and the Madrid Open as the clay season progressed. She remained the entire year as the top-ranked player, finishing 2025 on top of the rankings for a second straight year. In July, she achieved the status of being the first player to exceed 12,000 WTA ranking points since Serena Williams in 2015. Historic Achievements Sabalenka concluded the competitive year with a 63-12 win-loss record, and picked up a historic eleven million pounds in tournament winnings. She received nearly eighty percent of the votes submitted by global tennis journalists. On 28 December, she is scheduled to face 2022 Wimbledon runner-up Nick Kyrgios in a Battle of the Sexes-style exhibition match with the aim of "elevate 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 13-month break following the birth of her first child and making her comeback to the sport earlier this season. Newcomer of the Year: Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko picked up the award after beginning the season positioned outside the world's top 300 and soaring to world number 18. Doubles Team of the Year: Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend were selected after capturing their second Grand Slam title as a pair. Biggest Leap of the Year: Amanda Anisimova was named after advancing to five finals. Recently, Carlos Alcaraz secured three awards in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Awards, including the year-end number one award, while Jannik Sinner was chosen as fans' favourite for a third consecutive time.