{"id":258552,"date":"2025-11-03T09:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T09:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/258552\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T09:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T09:57:10","slug":"aryna-sabalenka-has-just-broken-one-of-serena-williams-all-time-records-with-her-first-win-at-the-wta-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/258552\/","title":{"rendered":"Aryna Sabalenka has just broken one of Serena Williams’ all-time records with her first win at the WTA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Aryna Sabalenka got off to a strong start at the WTA Finals, winning her first round robin clash in straight sets. <\/p>\n

The Belarusian, who received the year-end number one trophy prior to her match, beat Jasmine Paolini<\/a> 6-3, 6-1 to open her account in Riyadh. <\/p>\n

Sabalenka<\/a> is in the Stefanie Graf group at the WTA Finals<\/a>, which consists of Paolini, Jessica Pegula<\/a>, and the 2024 winner, Coco Gauff<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"ArynaPhoto by Matthew Stockman\/Getty Images for WTA<\/p>\n

Despite being one of the best players on the tour for a while now, the world number one has never clinched the WTA Finals title.<\/p>\n

As well as sealing an opening victory against Paolini, Sabalenka has just broken one of Serena Williams<\/a>\u2018 all-time records.<\/p>\n

Aryna Sabalenka surpasses Serena Williams\u2019 prize money record<\/p>\n

Both Sabalenka and Paolini raked in $355,000 (US Dollars) just for appearing in their bout at the WTA Finals.<\/p>\n

For the four-time Grand Slam champion, however, her win against the Italian meant she collected an additional $355,000.<\/p>\n

Her prize money earnings on the WTA Tour this season have now reached a total of $13,008,519, which is an all-time record.<\/p>\n

Sabalenka surpasses Williams for the most prize money won in a single WTA season, beating the American legend\u2019s 2013 campaign, in which she earned $12,385,572.<\/p>\n

PlayerYearPrize Money WonAryna Sabalenka2025$13,008,519Serena Williams2013$12,385,572Ashleigh Barty2019$11,307,587Serena Williams2015$10,582,642Angelique Kerber2016$10,136,615Top five WTA seasons in terms of prize money won (US Dollars)<\/p>\n

In 2013, Williams had one of her best seasons on tour, winning three Grand Slam titles and two WTA 1000 crowns. <\/p>\n

Sabalenka\u2019s 2025 season has featured a US Open triumph, two major runner-up finishes, as well as two WTA 1000 titles. <\/p>\n

\"ArynaPhoto by Elsa\/Getty ImagesAryna Sabalenka\u2019s record at the WTA Finals over the years <\/p>\n

This year marks Sabalenka\u2019s fifth appearance at the WTA Finals, having recorded her first run at the year-end tournament in 2021. <\/p>\n

That season, she went out in the group stage, losing round-robin clashes with Paula Badosa and Maria Sakkari, and winning just one match against Iga Swiatek<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2022, Sabalenka made the final, becoming the fourth player in the Open Era to defeat the world\u2019s top-three-ranked players at the same tournament, with wins over Ons Jabeur, Pegula, and Swiatek. <\/p>\n

She ultimately suffered a straight-set defeat to Caroline Garcia in the championship match, however, losing 7-6, 6-4. <\/p>\n

Sabalenka made back-to-back semifinals in 2023 and 2024, and now she will look to finally go all the way in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover Aryna Sabalenka got off to a strong start at the WTA Finals, winning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6005,49,48,5385,82,4306,97177],"class_list":["post-258552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aryna-sabalenka","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-serena-williams","tag-sports","tag-wta","tag-wta-finals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}