Dec 15, 2025, 03:20 PM ET<\/p>\n
Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> won her second consecutive WTA Tour Player of the Year award on Monday, getting nearly 80% of the vote from a media panel after winning the US Open, reaching the finals of two other Grand Slam tournaments and closing the season at No. 1 in the rankings.<\/p>\n Sabalenka joined Serena Williams<\/a> and Iga Swiatek<\/a> as back-to-back winners of the honor over the past 25 years.<\/p>\n Sabalenka, a 27-year-old from Belarus, led women’s tennis in match victories (going 63-12), titles (four) and finals reached (nine) in 2025 and set a tour record by earning $15 million in prize money. She spent the entire year at No. 1.<\/p>\n At the majors, Sabalenka was the runner-up to Madison Keys<\/a> at the Australian Open in January and to Coco Gauff<\/a> at the French Open in June, made it to the semifinals at Wimbledon in July before losing to Amanda Anisimova<\/a> and collected her fourth career Grand Slam singles trophy with a successful title defense at the U.S. Open in September, defeating Anisimova in the final.<\/p>\n Anisimova was selected as Most Improved Player after making it to her first two Grand Slam finals at the All England Club — where she was the runner-up to Swiatek — and Flushing Meadows. She reached three other finals, including claiming WTA 1000 titles in Doha and Beijing.<\/p>\n The 24-year-old from the United States ended 2024 at No. 36 in the rankings and, after making her top-10 debut, rose all the way to No. 4 at the end of this season. Anisimova also was nominated as Player of the Year.<\/p>\n This season capped quite a climb for Anisimova, who took time off in 2023, saying she had been ” struggling with my mental health ” for nearly a year.<\/p>\n Other award recipients Monday included Vicky Mboko as Newcomer of the Year, Belinda Bencic<\/a> as Comeback Player of the Year, and Katerina Siniakova<\/a> and Taylor Townsend<\/a> as Doubles Team of the Year.<\/p>\n Mboko, a 19-year-old from Canada, lifted her ranking from outside the top 300 to inside the top 20 with a season that included a WTA 1000 trophy in Montreal by beating four Grand Slam singles champions.<\/p>\n Bencic was away from the tour for more than a year while having her first child, then won two titles in 2025 and reached the semifinals at Wimbledon for the first time — her first appearance in the final four of a major since 2019.<\/p>\n Siniakova and Townsend won the Australian Open and were the runners-up at the US Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 15, 2025, 03:20 PM ET Aryna Sabalenka won her second consecutive WTA Tour Player of the Year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-351163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}