🔗 Share this article Reigning Sabalenka Secures Back-to-Back WTA Player of the Year Awards. Aryna Sabalenka ended the year with an impressive 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 secured 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 championship. A Season of Consistency Over the course of the tour, Sabalenka reached a circuit-leading 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 Belarusian also won the Brisbane International in January, the Miami Open in March, and the Madrid Open as the clay season progressed. She remained the entire year as the world number one, concluding 2025 atop the rankings for a second straight year. In July, she became the first athlete to top 12,000 WTA ranking points after Serena Williams did so nearly a decade ago. Record-Breaking Achievements Sabalenka finished the competitive year with a 63-12 win-loss record, and picked up a historic £11m in tournament winnings. She garnered almost 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 with the aim of "raise women's tennis to a higher level". Additional WTA Award Winners Comeback Player of the Year: Switzerland's Belinda Bencic, twenty-eight, was voted after taking a extended hiatus following the birth of her first child and returning to the sport at the start of this year. Fresh Face of the Year: Canadian 19-year-old Victoria Mboko picked up the award after starting the season ranked outside the world's top 300 and soaring to world number 18. Doubles Team of the Year: Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend were voted after securing their second career Grand Slam title as a pair. Biggest Leap of the Year: Amanda Anisimova was named after making five finals. Recently, Carlos Alcaraz won three honours in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Awards, which included the year-end number one award, while Jannik Sinner was chosen as the fan favorite for a third consecutive time.