🔗 Share this article Top-ranked Sabalenka Secures Consecutive WTA Player of the Year Accolades. Aryna Sabalenka concluded the season with an notable 23-3 Grand Slam win-loss record. The top-ranked player Aryna Sabalenka has been chosen the Women's Tennis Association top performer of the year for a second consecutive year. The 27-year-old won four tournament victories – the highest tally on the circuit – including successfully defending the US Open this past September versus Amanda Anisimova to earn her fourth career Grand Slam singles triumph. A Year of High Performance Over the course of the tour, Sabalenka played in a circuit-leading nine championship matches, with defeats coming to Madison Keys in the Australian Open final in January 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 in March, and the Madrid Open in May. She spent the entire year as the world number one, concluding 2025 atop the rankings for a second straight year. In July, she became the first player to top 12,000 WTA ranking points after Serena Williams in 2015. Record-Breaking Achievements Sabalenka finished the competitive year with a sixty-three to twelve win-loss record, and collected a record £11m in earnings. She earned nearly 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 Battle of the Sexes-style exhibition match with the aim of "help bring women's tennis to a greater prominence". Other WTA Award Winners Comeback Player of the Year: Switzerland's Belinda Bencic, 28, received the award after taking extended hiatus after the arrival of her daughter and making her comeback to the sport earlier this season. Rookie of the Year: Canadian 19-year-old Victoria Mboko picked up the award after beginning the season ranked beyond the world's top 300 and soaring to world number 18. Partnership of the Year: Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend were voted after winning their second Grand Slam title together. Most Improved Player of the Year: Amanda Anisimova received the accolade after reaching five championship matches. Recently, Carlos Alcaraz won 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 consecutive time.