The 2025 WTA Tour season has come to an end with Elena Rybakina winning the final tournament of the campaign while Aryna Sabalenka finishes the year where she started: at No 1.<\/p>\n
Rybakina<\/a> completed her brilliant late-season charge by beating Sabalenka in the final of the WTA Finals<\/a> to win the second-biggest title of her career following her 2022 success at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n And she did it in style, winning the tournament undefeated as she beat Amanda Anisimova, Iga Swiatek and Ekaterina Alexandrova during the group phase before holding off Jessica Pegula in three sets in the semi-final. In the final, she overcame Sabalenka 6-3, 7-6 (7-0) to win the year-end event for the first time in her career.<\/p>\n The five wins in Riyadh earned her 1,500 points and she moved up one place in the WTA Rankings to No 5, which is just reward for her excellent form since the start of the Asian swing as she was down at No 10 on September 15.<\/p>\n The Kazakh star \u2013 who peaked at No 3 in the rankings in June 2023 \u2013 reached the quarter-final of the Wuhan Open, won the Ningbo Open and made it to the semi-final of the Pan Pacific Open before completing her run with the title in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n Besides the 1,500 ranking points, Rybakina also earned $5,235,000 \u2013 a record in women\u2019s tennis \u2013 for winning the WTA Finals undefeated.<\/p>\n But the WTA Rankings star of the year was undoubtedly Sabalenka as she will complete a full calendar at No 1<\/a>, having wrapped up the year-end top spot before the WTA Finals.<\/p>\n The Belarusian finished the 2024 season on 9,416 points and she has gone better in 2025 as she finishes on 10,870 points with her biggest gains coming from her US Open victory, runners-up spots at the Australian Open, French Open and WTA Finals, and Miami Open and Madrid Open titles.<\/p>\n The four-time Grand Slam winner will start the 2026 season with a 2,475-point lead over Iga Swiatek, who in turn is 1,632 points ahead of Coco Gauff.<\/p>\n Although Gauff exited the WTA Finals<\/a> after the round-robin stage, she managed to hold off Amanda Anisimova in the battle for the American year-end No 1 spot as the latter\u2019s run to the semi-final saw her move to within 476 points.<\/p>\n Elena Rybakina\u2019s record prize money and ranking points from WTA Finals as Aryna Sabalenka also earn big<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n How Aryna Sabalenka broke stunning Serena Williams prize money record in landmark 2025 season<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Despite reaching the last four, Pegula drops one place \u2013 although it is more a case of Rybakina moving up a spot \u2013 while the rest of the top 50 remains unchanged as the regular WTA Tour season finished last week.<\/p>\n However, there are still some WTA 125 tournaments and ITF events scheduled until early December and there was some movement lower down the list as Renata Zarazua climbed 12 places to No 70 after winning the Austin 125.<\/p>\n Oleksandra Oliynykova was the other WTA 125 title winner last week as she won the event in Tucuman, Argentina, to rise 23 spots to No 109.<\/p>\n But the top 20 will remain the same for the rest of the 2025 season, but please do keep an eye out for our 2025 WTA Rankings Winners & Losers that will feature the likes of Sabalenka, Victoria Mboko and Alex Eala.<\/p>\n 1. Aryna Sabalenka \u2013 10,870 points The post WTA Rankings: Sabalenka\u2019s year at No 1, Gauff wins American No 1 battle, Rybakina ends on a high<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2025 WTA Tour season has come to an end with Elena Rybakina winning the final tournament of the campaign while Aryna Sabalenka finishes the year where she started: at No 1. 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WTA Rankings Top 20<\/h2>\n
\n2. Iga Swiatek Poland \u2013 8,395
\n3. Coco Gauff United States \u2013 6,763
\n4. Amanda Anisimova United States \u2013 6,287
\n5. Elena Rybakina Kazakhstan \u2013 5,850 (+1)
\n6. Jessica Pegula United States \u2013 5,583 (-1)
\n7. Madison Keys United States \u2013 4,335
\n8. Jasmine Paolini Italy \u2013 4,325
\n9. Mirra Andreeva \u2013 4,319
\n10. Ekaterina Alexandrova \u2013 3,375
\n11. Belinda Bencic Switzerland \u2013 3,168
\n12. Clara Tauson Denmark \u2013 2,770
\n13. Linda Noskova Czech Republic \u2013 2,641
\n14. Elina Svitolina Ukraine \u2013 2,595
\n15. Emma Navarro United States \u2013 2,515
\n16. Naomi Osaka Japan \u2013 2,487
\n17. Luidmila Sansonova \u2013 2,209
\n18. Victoria Mboko Canada \u2013 2,157 (+3)
\n19. Karolina Muchova Czech Republic \u2013 1,996
\n20. Elise Mertens Belgium \u2013 1,969<\/p>\n