🔗 Share this article Reigning Aryna Sabalenka Claims Consecutive WTA Player of the Year Accolades. Aryna Sabalenka ended the season with an notable 23-3 Grand Slam match record. The top-ranked player Aryna Sabalenka has been selected the Women's Tennis Association top performer of the year for a second consecutive season. The 27-year-old secured four titles – the most on tour – which included retaining the US Open this past September versus Amanda Anisimova to earn her fourth Grand Slam singles triumph. A Year of High Performance Over the course of the tour, Sabalenka played in a circuit-leading nine finals, with defeats coming to Madison Keys in the Australian Open final at the start of the year and Coco Gauff in June's French Open final. The Belarusian also triumphed at the Brisbane International in January, the Miami Open during the spring, and the Madrid Open as the clay season progressed. She spent the whole season as the world number one, concluding 2025 atop the rankings for a second successive year. This past summer, she achieved the status of being the first player to exceed 12,000 WTA ranking points after Serena Williams in 2015. Record-Breaking Achievements Sabalenka finished the competitive year with a 63-12 match record, and collected a record £11m in tournament winnings. She garnered almost 80% of the votes cast by global tennis journalists. On 28 December, she is set to play 2022 Wimbledon runner-up Nick Kyrgios in a Battle of the Sexes-style exhibition match in a bid to "help bring women's tennis to a new level". Other WTA Award Recipients Comeback Player of the Year: Switzerland's Belinda Bencic, twenty-eight, was voted after taking a 13-month break following the arrival of her first child and returning to the sport at the start of this year. Newcomer of the Year: Canadian 19-year-old Victoria Mboko picked up the award after beginning the season ranked outside the world's top 300 and soaring to the eighteenth spot. Partnership of the Year: Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend were voted after capturing their second career Grand Slam title together. Biggest Leap of the Year: Amanda Anisimova received the accolade after reaching five finals. Recently, Carlos Alcaraz took home three honours 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.