Sabalenka won the WTA Player of the Year Award, and Canada’s M’Boko won the Newcomer Award.
Aryna Sabalenka won her second consecutive WTA Tour Player of the Year award on Monday, receiving nearly 80 percent of the media panel’s vote after winning the U.S. Open, reaching the finals of two other Grand Slam tournaments and finishing the season ranked No. 1.
Sabalenka joins Serena Williams and Iga Swiatek in receiving the honor for the past 25 consecutive years.
Sabalenka, a 27-year-old from Belarus, won women’s tennis in 2025 (63-12), won titles (four) and reached finals (nine), setting a tour record and earning $15 million in prize money. She was ranked No. 1 all year.
At the Grand Slams, Sabalenka lost to Madison Keys at the Australian Open in January, finished runner-up to Coco Gauff at the French Open in June, reached the semifinals at Wimbledon in July before losing to Amanda Anisimova, and successfully defended her title at the U.S. Open in September, defeating Anisimova in the final to win her fourth career Grand Slam singles trophy.
Anisimova reached her first two Grand Slam finals at the All England Club and Flushing Meadows (where she finished runner-up to Swiatek), and was voted Most Improved Player. She also reached three other finals, including WTA 1000 titles in Doha and Beijing.
The 24-year-old from the United States ended 2024 ranked No. 36, rising all the way to No. 4 at the end of the season after breaking into the top 10 for the first time. Anisimova was also nominated for Player of the Year.
Anisimova, who has made considerable progress this season, took 2023 off, saying she had been “struggling with mental health issues” for nearly a year.
Other honorees on Monday included Rookie of the Year Vicki Mboko, Comeback Player of the Year Belinda Bencic, Doubles Player of the Year Katrina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend.
Mboko, a 19-year-old from Canada, defeated four Grand Slam singles champions in one season to win the WTA 1000 trophy in Montreal and lift his ranking from outside the top 300 to within the top 20.
Bencic took more than a year off the tour while giving birth to her first child before winning two titles in 2025 and reaching her first Wimbledon semifinals – her first Grand Slam semi-final since 2019.
Siniakova and Townsend won the Australian Open and were runners-up at the U.S. Open.
