🔗 Share this article Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka Claims Consecutive WTA Player of the Year Accolades. The Belarusian player ended the year with an notable 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 successive year. The 27-year-old captured four titles – the most on tour – including successfully defending the US Open in September against Amanda Anisimova to earn her fourth Grand Slam singles triumph. A Year of High Performance Over the course of the tour, Sabalenka competed in a tour-best nine finals, with losses coming to Madison Keys in the Australian Open final in January and Coco Gauff in the French Open final. The Belarusian also triumphed at the Brisbane International early in the season, the Miami Open during the spring, and the Madrid Open in May. She remained the whole season as the world number one, ending 2025 atop the rankings for a second successive year. This past summer, she achieved the status of being the first athlete to exceed 12,000 WTA ranking points after Serena Williams in 2015. Historic Achievements Sabalenka finished the season with a 63-12 win-loss record, and earned a record £11m in earnings. She earned nearly eighty percent of the votes submitted by international tennis media. On 28 December, she is set to play 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 greater prominence". Additional WTA Award Winners Comeback Player of the Year: Switzerland's Belinda Bencic, twenty-eight, received the award after taking a 13-month break following the birth of her daughter and returning to the sport earlier this season. Rookie of the Year: Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko received the award after starting the season positioned beyond the world's top 300 and rising to the eighteenth spot. Partnership of the Year: Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend were selected after capturing their second career Grand Slam title together. Biggest Leap of the Year: Amanda Anisimova was named after advancing to five championship matches. Last week, Carlos Alcaraz took home three awards in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Awards, including the year-end number one award, while Jannik Sinner was voted fans' favourite for a third consecutive time.