🔗 Share this article Reigning Sabalenka Secures Consecutive WTA Top Player Honors. Aryna Sabalenka finished the year with an impressive 23-3 Grand Slam match record. World number one Aryna Sabalenka has been chosen the Women's Tennis Association player of the year for a second consecutive year. The twenty-seven-year-old captured four tournament victories – the most on tour – which included successfully defending the US Open this past September against Amanda Anisimova to claim her fourth Grand Slam singles championship. A Year of Consistency Throughout the year, Sabalenka competed in a tour-best nine finals, with losses coming against Madison Keys in the Australian Open final in January and Coco Gauff in June's 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 spent the whole season as the world number one, finishing 2025 on top of the rankings for a second straight year. In July, she achieved the status of being the first player to top 12,000 WTA ranking points since Serena Williams in 2015. Record-Breaking Achievements Sabalenka finished the season with a 63-12 win-loss record, and earned a historic eleven million pounds in earnings. She earned nearly eighty percent of the votes cast by global tennis journalists. Later this month, she is set to play 2022 Wimbledon runner-up Nick Kyrgios in a high-profile mixed-gender exhibition match with the aim of "raise women's tennis to a higher level". Additional WTA Award Honorees Returning Star of the Year: Switzerland's Belinda Bencic, twenty-eight, received the award after taking 13-month break following the arrival of her first child and making her comeback to the sport earlier this season. Fresh Face of the Year: Canadian 19-year-old Victoria Mboko was honored with the award after starting the season positioned beyond the world's top 300 and climbing to world number 18. Partnership of the Year: Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend earned the title after capturing their second career Grand Slam title as a pair. Biggest Leap of the Year: Amanda Anisimova was named after reaching five finals. Recently, Carlos Alcaraz took home three honours in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Awards, which included the year-end number one award, while Jannik Sinner was chosen as fans' favourite for a third time.