🔗 Share this article Dominant Aryna Sabalenka Claims Back-to-Back WTA Player of the Year Awards. The Belarusian player ended the season with an outstanding twenty-three to three Grand Slam match record. World number one Aryna Sabalenka has been voted the Women's Tennis Association player of the year for a second successive season. The twenty-seven-year-old captured four tournament victories – the most on tour – including retaining the US Open this past September against Amanda Anisimova to claim her fourth Grand Slam singles triumph. A Season of Dominance Across the season, Sabalenka reached a tour-best nine finals, with losses coming to Madison Keys in the Australian Open final at the start of the year and Coco Gauff in the 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 top-ranked player, finishing 2025 atop the rankings for a second straight year. In July, she became the first player to exceed 12,000 WTA ranking points after Serena Williams in 2015. Historic Numbers Sabalenka concluded the competitive year with a 63-12 win-loss record, and collected a historic £11m in earnings. She received almost eighty percent of the votes cast by international tennis media. Later this month, she is set to play 2022 Wimbledon runner-up Nick Kyrgios in a Battle of the Sexes-style exhibition match with the aim of "help bring women's tennis to a higher level". Additional WTA Award Honorees Returning Star of the Year: Switzerland's Belinda Bencic, twenty-eight, was voted after taking a 13-month break following the arrival of her daughter and returning to the sport at the start of this year. Fresh Face of the Year: Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko received the award after beginning 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 selected after winning their second career Grand Slam title as a pair. Biggest Leap of the Year: Amanda Anisimova received the accolade after reaching five finals. Last week, Carlos Alcaraz took home three honours in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Awards, including the season-ending top rank award, while Jannik Sinner was chosen as fans' favourite for a third consecutive time.