🔗 Share this article Dominant Sabalenka Wins Consecutive WTA Player of the Year Awards. The Belarusian player finished 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 top performer of the year for a second consecutive season. The 27-year-old won four titles – the most on tour – including retaining the US Open in September versus Amanda Anisimova to claim her fourth career Grand Slam singles title. A Year of High Performance Across the season, Sabalenka reached 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 in January, the Miami Open in March, and the Madrid Open as the clay season progressed. She spent the entire year as the top-ranked player, ending 2025 on top of the rankings for a second straight year. This past summer, she became the first player to top 12,000 WTA ranking points after Serena Williams in 2015. Record-Breaking Numbers Sabalenka ended the season with a sixty-three to twelve match record, and picked up a historic £11m in prize money. She garnered nearly eighty percent of the votes submitted by international tennis media. On 28 December, she is set to play 2022 Wimbledon runner-up Nick Kyrgios in a Battle of the Sexes-style exhibition match with the aim of "help bring women's tennis to a new level". Additional WTA Award Honorees Returning Star of the Year: Switzerland's Belinda Bencic, 28, was voted after taking extended hiatus following the birth of her first child and returning to the sport earlier this season. Fresh Face of the Year: Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko was honored with the award after beginning the season ranked outside the world's top 300 and rising to world number 18. Doubles Team of the Year: Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend were selected after winning their second Grand Slam title as a pair. Most Improved Player of the Year: Amanda Anisimova was named after making five finals. Last week, Carlos Alcaraz took home three awards in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Awards, which included the season-ending top rank award, while Jannik Sinner was chosen as the fan favorite for a third time.