🔗 Share this article Reigning Sabalenka Claims Consecutive WTA Top Player Awards. Aryna Sabalenka finished the tour with an impressive twenty-three to three Grand Slam match record. World number one Aryna Sabalenka has been voted the Women's Tennis Association top performer of the year for a second straight season. The twenty-seven-year-old secured four tournament victories – the most on tour – including successfully defending the US Open in September against Amanda Anisimova to earn her fourth career Grand Slam singles championship. A Year of Consistency Over the course of the tour, Sabalenka played 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 claimed victory at the Brisbane International in January, the Miami Open during the spring, and the Madrid Open in May. She remained the entire year as the top-ranked player, ending 2025 atop the rankings for a second straight year. This past summer, she became the first player to exceed 12,000 WTA ranking points after Serena Williams did so nearly a decade ago. Historic Statistics Sabalenka concluded the competitive year with a 63-12 match record, and earned a historic £11m in earnings. She earned 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 high-profile mixed-gender exhibition match with the aim of "elevate women's tennis to a new level". Additional WTA Award Recipients Comeback Player of the Year: Switzerland's Belinda Bencic, 28, was voted after taking extended hiatus after the birth of her first child 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 positioned beyond the world's top 300 and climbing to world number 18. Doubles Team of the Year: Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend were voted after capturing their second career Grand Slam title as a pair. Biggest Leap of the Year: Amanda Anisimova was named after making five championship matches. Last week, 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.