🔗 Share this article Dominant Aryna Sabalenka Claims Consecutive WTA Top Player Awards. Aryna Sabalenka finished the year with an outstanding 23-3 Grand Slam win-loss record. World number one Aryna Sabalenka has been voted the Women's Tennis Association top performer of the year for a second straight season. 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 secure her fourth career Grand Slam singles triumph. A Year of Dominance Throughout the year, Sabalenka played in a circuit-leading nine finals, with defeats coming to Madison Keys in the Australian Open final in January and Coco Gauff in June's 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 entire year as the top-ranked player, finishing 2025 atop the rankings for a second successive year. In July, she achieved the status of being the first athlete to exceed 12,000 WTA ranking points after Serena Williams did so nearly a decade ago. Record-Breaking Numbers Sabalenka finished the competitive year with a sixty-three to twelve match record, and collected a historic £11m in tournament winnings. She received nearly 80% of the votes cast by international tennis media. Later this month, she is set to play 2022 Wimbledon runner-up Nick Kyrgios in a Battle of the Sexes-style exhibition match in a bid to "elevate women's tennis to a new level". Other WTA Award Winners Returning Star of the Year: Switzerland's Belinda Bencic, 28, received the award after taking extended hiatus after the arrival 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 outside the world's top 300 and rising to the eighteenth spot. Doubles Team of the Year: Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend were voted after capturing their second Grand Slam title as a pair. Most Improved Player of the Year: Amanda Anisimova was named after advancing to five championship matches. Recently, Carlos Alcaraz secured three awards 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 consecutive time.