🔗 Share this article Dominant Sabalenka Secures Consecutive WTA Player of the Year Accolades. The Belarusian player finished the tour with an impressive 23-3 Grand Slam match record. World number one Aryna Sabalenka has been voted the Women's Tennis Association player of the year for a second consecutive season. 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 claim her fourth career Grand Slam singles championship. A Year of Dominance Over the course of the tour, Sabalenka reached a tour-best nine championship matches, with defeats 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 early in the season, the Miami Open in March, and the Madrid Open as the clay season progressed. She spent the whole season as the top-ranked player, finishing 2025 atop the rankings for a second straight year. This past summer, she became the first athlete to top 12,000 WTA ranking points after Serena Williams did so nearly a decade ago. Record-Breaking Statistics Sabalenka ended the competitive year with a sixty-three to twelve win-loss record, and picked up a historic £11m in earnings. She received nearly eighty percent of the votes submitted by international tennis media. On 28 December, she is set to play 2022 Wimbledon finalist Nick Kyrgios in a high-profile mixed-gender exhibition match with the aim of "raise women's tennis to a higher level". Other WTA Award Honorees Comeback Player of the Year: Switzerland's Belinda Bencic, twenty-eight, was voted after taking extended hiatus following the arrival of her daughter and making her comeback to the sport earlier this season. Fresh Face of the Year: Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko received the award after starting the season ranked beyond the world's top 300 and soaring to the eighteenth spot. Doubles Team of the Year: Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend earned the title after securing their second Grand Slam title together. Biggest Leap of the Year: Amanda Anisimova received the accolade after reaching five finals. Last week, 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 fans' favourite for a third time.