🔗 Share this article Dominant Sabalenka Wins Back-to-Back WTA Player of the Year Awards. Aryna Sabalenka finished the tour with an notable twenty-three to three Grand Slam win-loss record. World number one Aryna Sabalenka has been selected the Women's Tennis Association top performer of the year for a second successive year. The twenty-seven-year-old won four tournament victories – the highest tally on the circuit – including retaining the US Open this past September against Amanda Anisimova to earn her fourth Grand Slam singles title. A Year of High Performance Over the course of the tour, Sabalenka reached a circuit-leading nine championship matches, with defeats coming to Madison Keys in the Australian Open final at the start of the year and Coco Gauff in the French Open final. The Belarusian also won the Brisbane International early in the season, 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, ending 2025 atop the rankings for a second straight year. This past summer, she achieved the status of being the first athlete to exceed 12,000 WTA ranking points since Serena Williams did so nearly a decade ago. Historic Achievements Sabalenka concluded the season with a sixty-three to twelve win-loss record, and collected a record £11m in prize money. She received almost eighty percent of the votes submitted by global tennis journalists. Later this month, she is poised to compete against 2022 Wimbledon runner-up Nick Kyrgios in a high-profile mixed-gender exhibition match with the aim of "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 following the birth of her first child and making her comeback to the sport earlier this season. Rookie of the Year: Canadian 19-year-old Victoria Mboko received the award after starting the season positioned outside the world's top 300 and climbing to the eighteenth spot. Doubles Team of the Year: Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend were selected after capturing their second Grand Slam title together. Biggest Leap of the Year: Amanda Anisimova was named after advancing to five finals. Recently, Carlos Alcaraz won three honours in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Awards, including the season-ending top rank award, while Jannik Sinner was voted fans' favourite for a third time.