🔗 Share this article Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka Secures Consecutive WTA Player of the Year Accolades. The Belarusian player ended the tour with an outstanding 23-3 Grand Slam match 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 27-year-old captured four tournament victories – the highest tally on the circuit – which included retaining the US Open this past September against Amanda Anisimova to earn her fourth Grand Slam singles triumph. A Season of Consistency Over the course of the tour, Sabalenka reached a tour-best nine finals, with losses coming against Madison Keys in the Australian Open final at the start of the year and Coco Gauff in June's French Open final. The star player also won the Brisbane International early in the season, the Miami Open in March, and the Madrid Open as the clay season progressed. She spent the whole season as the world number one, ending 2025 atop the rankings for a second straight year. This past summer, she achieved the status of being the first athlete to top 12,000 WTA ranking points since Serena Williams did so nearly a decade ago. Historic Numbers Sabalenka ended the competitive year with a 63-12 match record, and earned a record £11m in tournament winnings. She garnered nearly eighty percent 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 "help bring women's tennis to a new level". Additional 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 making her comeback to the sport at the start of this year. Rookie of the Year: Canadian 19-year-old Victoria Mboko picked up the award after starting the season ranked beyond the world's top 300 and rising to world number 18. Doubles Team of the Year: Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend were voted after securing their second career Grand Slam title together. Biggest Leap of the Year: Amanda Anisimova was named after advancing to five finals. Last week, Carlos Alcaraz secured three awards in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Awards, which included the season-ending top rank award, while Jannik Sinner was voted fans' favourite for a third consecutive time.