🔗 Share this article Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka Secures Back-to-Back WTA Player of the Year Accolades. The Belarusian player finished the season with an outstanding 23-3 Grand Slam match record. World number one Aryna Sabalenka has been selected the Women's Tennis Association player of the year for a second successive season. The 27-year-old captured four tournament victories – 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 Consistency Across the season, Sabalenka played in a tour-best nine championship matches, 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 in May. She remained the entire year as the world number one, concluding 2025 atop the rankings for a second successive year. This past summer, she became the first player to top 12,000 WTA ranking points since Serena Williams did so nearly a decade ago. Historic Statistics Sabalenka concluded the season with a 63-12 win-loss record, and collected a historic £11m in tournament winnings. She garnered almost eighty percent of the votes cast by global tennis journalists. Later this month, she is set to play 2022 Wimbledon finalist Nick Kyrgios in a Battle of the Sexes-style exhibition match with the aim of "elevate women's tennis to a new level". Other WTA Award Honorees Returning Star of the Year: Switzerland's Belinda Bencic, twenty-eight, received the award after taking a 13-month break after the arrival of her first child and returning to the sport at the start of this year. Newcomer of the Year: Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko was honored with the award after starting the season positioned beyond the world's top 300 and climbing to the eighteenth spot. Partnership of the Year: Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend earned the title after winning their second Grand Slam title together. Biggest Leap of the Year: Amanda Anisimova was named after advancing to five finals. Last week, 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 fans' favourite for a third consecutive time.