🔗 Share this article Dominant Aryna Sabalenka Wins Consecutive WTA Top Player Honors. The Belarusian player finished the tour with an outstanding twenty-three to three Grand Slam match record. The top-ranked player Aryna Sabalenka has been selected the Women's Tennis Association player of the year for a second successive year. The twenty-seven-year-old secured four titles – the most on tour – which included retaining the US Open this past September versus Amanda Anisimova to claim her fourth Grand Slam singles triumph. A Year of Consistency Over the course of the tour, Sabalenka competed in a tour-best nine championship matches, with losses coming against Madison Keys in the Australian Open final at the start of the year and Coco Gauff in June's French Open final. The star player also claimed victory at the Brisbane International early in the season, the Miami Open during the spring, and the Madrid Open as the clay season progressed. She remained the whole season as the world number one, ending 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 Numbers Sabalenka finished the competitive year with a 63-12 match record, and picked up a historic eleven million pounds in tournament winnings. She received almost eighty percent of the votes cast by global tennis journalists. On 28 December, she is scheduled to face 2022 Wimbledon finalist Nick Kyrgios in a high-profile mixed-gender exhibition match in a bid to "help bring women's tennis to a new level". Other WTA Award Winners Comeback Player of the Year: Switzerland's Belinda Bencic, twenty-eight, was voted after taking extended hiatus after the birth of her first child and returning to the sport at the start of this year. Fresh Face of the Year: Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko picked up the award after beginning the season ranked beyond the world's top 300 and climbing to the eighteenth spot. Doubles Team of the Year: Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend were selected after winning their second Grand Slam title together. Biggest Leap of the Year: Amanda Anisimova received the accolade after making five finals. Recently, Carlos Alcaraz took home 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 time.