🔗 Share this article Reigning Aryna Sabalenka Claims Consecutive WTA Player of the Year Awards. The Belarusian player concluded the season with an impressive twenty-three to three Grand Slam win-loss record. The top-ranked player Aryna Sabalenka has been chosen the Women's Tennis Association player of the year for a second successive year. The 27-year-old secured four titles – the highest tally on the circuit – which included retaining the US Open in September against Amanda Anisimova to claim her fourth Grand Slam singles title. A Season of Dominance Over the course of the tour, Sabalenka competed in a circuit-leading nine finals, with losses coming against Madison Keys in the Australian Open final in January and Coco Gauff in June's French Open final. The Belarusian also triumphed at the Brisbane International in January, the Miami Open in March, and the Madrid Open as the clay season progressed. She remained the whole season as the world number one, finishing 2025 on top of the rankings for a second straight year. In July, she became the first player to top 12,000 WTA ranking points after Serena Williams in 2015. Historic Statistics Sabalenka finished the season with a 63-12 win-loss record, and earned a record £11m in prize money. She garnered nearly eighty percent of the votes cast by global tennis journalists. On 28 December, she is scheduled to face 2022 Wimbledon runner-up Nick Kyrgios in a high-profile mixed-gender exhibition match in a bid to "help bring women's tennis to a higher level". Additional WTA Award Honorees Comeback Player of the Year: Switzerland's Belinda Bencic, 28, received the award after taking extended hiatus after the arrival of her first child and returning to the sport at the start of this year. Rookie of the Year: Canadian 19-year-old Victoria Mboko was honored with the award after beginning the season positioned outside the world's top 300 and soaring to the eighteenth spot. Doubles Team of the Year: Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend were selected after winning their second career Grand Slam title together. Biggest Leap of the Year: Amanda Anisimova was named after making 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 the fan favorite for a third consecutive time.