Aryna Sabalenka was without a doubt the best player on the WTA Tour in 2025, but Rennae Stubbs feels the four-time Grand Slam winner will be \u201chighly disappointed\u201d with her season.<\/p>\n
The Belarusian started the year at No 1 and also finished the campaign at the top<\/a> as she became only the seventh woman to spend an entire calendar year atop the WTA Rankings whlie she also won the most titles (four) and topped the prize money earnings list ($15,008,519).<\/p>\n Although she reached four Grand Slam finals, Sabalenka<\/a> won only won \u2013 and that was at the US Open when she defeated Amanda Anisimova in the final<\/a> \u2013 with her other titles coming at the WTA 500 Brisbane International and the WTA 1000 Miami Open and Madrid Open.<\/p>\n She lost five of the nine finals she played in and some were big ones as she was beaten by Madison Keys at the Australian Open, Coco Gauff at the French Open and, most recently, Elena Rybakina at the WTA Finals<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ranking the 10 best WTA Tour players of 2025 \u2013 ft. Sabalenka, Swiatek, Gauff, Anisimova<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n WTA Tour prize money: Sabalenka overtakes Swiatek & breaks a Serena Williams record<\/a><\/p>\n Doubles legend Stubbs was full of praise for Sabalenka\u2019s \u201coutrageously good\u201d consistency in 2025, but says the four-time major winner will feel she should\u2019ve won more trophies, especially majors.<\/p>\n \u201cAryna Sabalenka, another fantastic year, finishes world number one. It\u2019s been a long time since [somebody has] gone back-to-back, since somebody has done that as well number one,\u201d the four-time women\u2019s doubles Grand Slam winner said on the Rennae Stubbs podcast.<\/p>\n \u201cBut having said that, I would venture to say that she would say it was a great year, but it wasn\u2019t the year that she would have hope for.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd that\u2019s an amazing thing to say when you reach as many finals as she has, as you are the pinnacle of world number one two years in a row, the consistency that she had this year was outrageously good.<\/p>\n \u201cBut having only won one, essentially one major title, the US Open, I would say that she would say that this year was a little bit of a failure.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I mean that in the nicest way, because she\u2019s been so good and consistently the best player all year and making all the finals that she did. <\/p>\n \u201cI think she would be highly disappointed that she lost in the finals of the Australian Open, that she lost in the semi-finals of Wimbledon, that she lost the final of the French Open, and then she lost to Rybakina in the WTA Final.<\/p>\n \u201cI think that for her, someone who\u2019s that dominant would be very disappointed that they didn\u2019t get more major titles under their belt this year. And she sort of deserved it, but in the end, if you don\u2019t win, you don\u2019t deserve it.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Former world No 1 feels Aryna Sabalenka\u2019s 2025 campaign was \u2018a little bit of a failure\u2019<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aryna Sabalenka was without a doubt the best player on the WTA Tour in 2025, but Rennae Stubbs feels the four-time Grand Slam winner will be \u201chighly disappointed\u201d with her season. The Belarusian started the year at No 1 and also finished the campaign at the top as she became only the seventh woman to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}WTA Features<\/h2>\n