🔗 Share this article Reigning Aryna Sabalenka Wins Back-to-Back WTA Player of the Year Awards. Aryna Sabalenka ended the tour with an notable 23-3 Grand Slam match record. The top-ranked player Aryna Sabalenka has been voted the Women's Tennis Association player of the year for a second consecutive season. The 27-year-old secured four titles – the most on tour – including successfully defending the US Open this past September versus Amanda Anisimova to earn her fourth Grand Slam singles championship. A Season of High Performance Across the season, Sabalenka played in a circuit-leading nine championship matches, 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 won the Brisbane International in January, the Miami Open in March, and the Madrid Open in May. She spent the whole season as the top-ranked player, finishing 2025 on top of the rankings for a second successive year. This past summer, she became the first player to top 12,000 WTA ranking points after Serena Williams in 2015. Record-Breaking Statistics Sabalenka finished the season with a 63-12 win-loss record, and collected a historic £11m in prize money. She garnered nearly eighty percent of the votes cast by international tennis media. Later this month, she is poised to compete against 2022 Wimbledon finalist Nick Kyrgios in a high-profile mixed-gender exhibition match with the aim of "raise women's tennis to a higher level". Other WTA Award Honorees Returning Star of the Year: Switzerland's Belinda Bencic, twenty-eight, received the award after taking a extended hiatus after the birth of her daughter and returning to the sport earlier this season. Newcomer of the Year: Canadian 19-year-old Victoria Mboko picked up the award after starting the season ranked beyond the world's top 300 and climbing to world number 18. Doubles Team of the Year: Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend were selected after winning their second career Grand Slam title together. Biggest Leap of the Year: Amanda Anisimova was named after reaching five championship matches. Recently, Carlos Alcaraz won three awards in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Awards, including the season-ending top rank award, while Jannik Sinner was voted fans' favourite for a third time.