🔗 Share this article Reigning Aryna Sabalenka Wins Consecutive WTA Player of the Year Accolades. Aryna Sabalenka ended the year with an impressive twenty-three to three Grand Slam match 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 twenty-seven-year-old secured four titles – the highest tally on the circuit – which included retaining the US Open in September versus Amanda Anisimova to earn her fourth career Grand Slam singles triumph. A Year of Consistency Over the course of the tour, Sabalenka competed in 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 the French Open final. The Belarusian also triumphed at the Brisbane International early in the season, the Miami Open in March, and the Madrid Open in May. She spent the entire year as the top-ranked player, finishing 2025 on top of the rankings for a second straight year. In July, she achieved the status of being the first athlete to exceed 12,000 WTA ranking points since Serena Williams did so nearly a decade ago. Record-Breaking Numbers Sabalenka finished the competitive year with a 63-12 match record, and picked up a historic eleven million pounds in prize money. She garnered nearly 80% of the votes submitted by global tennis journalists. On 28 December, she is set to play 2022 Wimbledon finalist Nick Kyrgios in a high-profile mixed-gender exhibition match with the aim of "elevate women's tennis to a new level". Other WTA Award Recipients Comeback Player of the Year: Switzerland's Belinda Bencic, twenty-eight, received the award after taking 13-month break following the birth of her daughter and returning to the sport earlier this season. Fresh Face of the Year: Canadian 19-year-old Victoria Mboko received the award after starting the season ranked 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 received the accolade after reaching five championship matches. Last week, Carlos Alcaraz took home three awards in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Awards, which included the year-end number one award, while Jannik Sinner was voted the fan favorite for a third time.