2025 Ms.Backspin: Three of One, a Dozen of the Other

It's time to hand out some (virtual) hardware... so be careful not to break anything.

So, is there a WTA "Big 3?" Maybe, even if it doesn't always feel like it.

Yes, the season-ending rankings have now seen the same three women -- Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff -- finish 1-2-3 in back-to-back seasons, the first time that's happened on tour since 2000. Actually, the trio have filled the final Top 3 spots in some order for *three* consecutive seasons. But...

Once again, in 2025, the most interesting tour in the world maintained its simply irresistible mix of excellence and unpredictability.

The season's four major titles were split between *four* women, while a *fifth* (Amanda Anisimova) reached two slams finals, a *sixth* (Elena Rybakina) claimed the fifth-biggest title at the WTA Finals and a *seventh* different Top 10 finisher (Jessie Pegula) was the only player this season to win titles on all three surfaces.

Meanwhile, the aforementioned Top 3 woman went just 9-8 in their seventeen singles finals, with six of the eight defeats coming vs. players outside of that top-ranked trio. Four times this season, a player defeated *both* the #1 and #2-ranked players in the world en route to a tournament title.

A little further down the line, fourteen different women won multiple tour singles titles in 2025, with seven women divvying up the ten 1000-level crowns on the schedule. Three women made their Top 10 debuts this year, while eight different U.S. woman claimed titles for a second straight season (before last year, it'd been fifteen years since a nation had more unique winners).

Additionally, this year's WTA singles finalists spanned a 20-year age range, from 37 to 17, while 45-year old Venus Williams returned to action and proved that on a given game day she can still hold her own nearly thirty-one years after her tour debut. At the same time, teenagers went an impressive 8-2 in tour finals, while potential new stars (who garnered instant fan bases in the process) popped up on a regular basis all season long, with names like Eala, Mboko, Boisson, Tjen and, in the closing weeks, Tagger quickly making their presence felt, with hopes for more in the near future.

Of course, for every highlight there was often an accompanying exasperating lowlight -- such as yet another bad, shortsighted and creatively lazy marketing campaign/rebrand (you remember "#RallyTheWorld," right? Or maybe wish you didn't.) complete with a devolving logo and cliched toxic slime green color scheme propping up another pretentious and predictable rehash of several other failed branding strategies from the past) -- or on-court/off-court "controversy" (some legit, but often of the "non-story" variety) that mostly only served to distract from the accomplishments of the athletes that consistently (sometimes even with their inconsistency) provide a redeeming lifeline that rescues the entire operation from its own (and that of the sport in general) longstanding poor judgment when it comes to finding a way to effectively center the tour's identity around the personalities of the individuals that make up the band of traveling performers of many stripes that *are* the WTA: the players themselves.

As usual, they got the beat. Or, more specifically, *she* does. But maybe it'll be *her* the next time out. And if not her, well, then maybe another woman with a hot hand and racket at the ready that no one is even discussing at the moment.

Just wait a minute, eventually the circus will come around again so that everyone gets a chance to have a turn in the center ring.

Often intriguing, even while (and sometimes because it's) maddening, but always reliably entertaining, too. That's women's tennis in a nutshell.

Some of the women previously alluded to above are honored on this year's "Ms.Backspin" list of the top women's tennis players of 2025, while others are not. But they all combined to produce yet another memorable season. So, in other words, like "Mbokomania!" on a Montreal night, all is good.

via GIPHY

As always, each of this year's nominees are equal when it comes to being worthy of commendation, but some were more equal than others.

2025 "Ms.BACKSPIN" STANDINGS
1. Aryna Sabalenka, BLR
...Sabalenka ended the year as the season-ending #1 for a second straight year, but came up just short of what might have been an *historic* campaign. She won more prize money (just over $15m) than any WTA player ever in a single season, but despite reaching three major finals, another slam SF, and the WTAF title match (going 27-4 in the biggest five events on the schedule), she won just *one* of them (a "season-saving" U.S. Open repeat) as her big stage defeats tended to linger on the mind longer than her triumphs, of which there were more than any other player. While Sabalenka came up short in her three-peat attempt at the AO, she won her first career Miami title, reached her maiden RG final and led the tour in titles (4), finals (9), semis (12) and Top 10 wins (15). Sabalenka will have to start over when it comes to becoming the first to win three straight AO since 1999 (Hingis), but she'll get the chance next year in New York to try to become the first to three-peat there since 2014 (Serena).
2. Amanda Anisimova, USA
...Anisimova didn't win her maiden major crown in '25, but she arguably had the overall best season amongst the four Top 10-ranking Bannerettes, two (Gauff and Keys) of which claimed half of the season's slam titles while another won titles on all three surfaces (Pegula). Anisimova produced the breakout campaign of the season, rising 32 spots over twelve months to #4 (the biggest jump by any Top 10 finisher). She reached slam finals in both London and New York, posted ten of her eighteen career Top 10 wins this season, collected a pair of 1000 titles (Doha/Beijing), and reached the WTAF semis in her debut appearance. Maybe most impressive, though, was her resilience. After reaching her maiden major final at Wimbledon, she lost it 6-0/6-0 to Iga Swiatek. That sort of result could have derailed what remained of her season, but instead Anisimova proceded to reach the final at the U.S. Open, as well as go 2-0 vs. Swiatek the rest of the season, getting a measure of revenge in the QF in New York and then ending her tour season by gradually taking control of their round robin match in what was a face-off for a berth in the semifinals. The wins over the Pole made Anisimova the *only* player this season to post wins over every member of the 2025 Top 3 (Sabalenka, Swiatek *and* Gauff).
3. Iga Swiatek, POL
...it says much about the standard of accomplishment that Swiatek has established for herself in recent years that a season in which she finished #2 in the rankings, won a major (in *the* flipping-the-script moment of the season, on the grass at Wimbledon!) and led the tour in match wins (64) was nonetheless clearly her "worst" season since she inherited the top spot in the women's game after Ash Barty's sudden retirement in early 2022. Make no mistake, there were moments of true disappointment sprinkled throughout Swiatek's '25 season, including a stunning year-long title/final drought that extended through this year's Roland Garros (to conclude the worst clay season of her career, which included just 11 match wins), where she failed to win the crown for the first time since 2021, and shocking moments of vulnerability (4 love set losses, 0-2 marks vs. Gauff, Andreeva and Ostapenko and utter domination by opponents in the closing moments of her tour season at the WTAF, where she lost 12 of the last 13 and 10 of the last 12 games, respectively, in 2nd/3rd sets at the hands of Rybakina and Anisimova with a SF berth on the line) that contrasted sharply with her ease of victory when opponents and moments cooperated more fully. But Swiatek effectively turned around the tenor of her season during the summer, where she rebounded from her disappointment in Paris (a SF loss to Sabalenka in a love 3rd set) to reach her first grass final in Bad Homburg and then carried over her momentum to her first title run at SW19. Soon after, she won her first Cincinnati crown (her seventh different 1000 title) soon after, and later smallest tour-level win (500) since '23 in Seoul in honor of her dad's Olympic rowing experience in the city in 1988.
4. Yui Kamiji, JPN (WC)
...they say good things come to those who wait. Well, Kamiji has been waiting for quite a while. More than a decade ago, Kamiji was the #1 women's wheelchair tennis player in the world, twice finishing in the top spot in a four-year stretch from 2013-17. But then Diede de Groot assumed control of wheelchair tennis in early 2018, and held onto it with a vise-like grip until being slowed and eventually taken out by hip surgery following the 2024 Paralympics (right after losing to Kamiji in the Gold Medal Match). De Groot's dominance most often came at the expense of Kamiji, who finished #2 in the rankings every year from 2018-24 while putting up similarly dominant numbers vs. everyone else. Since 2022, Kamiji has gone 186-10 vs. non-de Groot competition, with winning streaks of 74 and 46 matches during the run. But her 2-16 record in major finals vs. the Dutch star saw Kamiji forced to smile and accept second place over and over and over again. She had lost to de Groot in *28* straight match-ups before her Paralympics victory. With de Groot absent or slowly rediscovering her form over much of the '25 season, Kamiji seized upon what was now a golden (lowercase "g") opportunity to complete the best big-title season of her career. She reached the finals of all four majors and the season-ending Masters for the first time in her career, including her first title match at Wimbledon in her ninth MD singles appearance at the tournament (she's reached the final at 35 of the last 37 slam finals outside of SW19), lifting crowns at the AO, Roland Garros and U.S. Open (her first singles slam titles since 2020) as well as finishing things off with a sweep of the s/d at the Wheelchair Masters in November and ending the season at #1 for the first time in eight years. A 33-time slam s/d champ (11s/22d), with additional titles in both disciplines at the Paralympics and WC Masters, the one door that Kamiji *wasn't* able to knock down in '25 was to get her first Wimbledon singles title. A win at SW19 is the only big title missing from her career collection, and in '26 she'll likely have to go through a fully healthy de Groot (who ended her four-match losing streak in their head-to-head late this season) in London in order to join her as the only women to have ever completed a "Career Super Slam" in both wheelchair singles and doubles.
5. Jessie Pegula, USA
...the competition was heavy this season for "Best U.S. Player," as two won majors and another reached multiple slam finals. Pegula didn't win her first major title in 2025, nor reach her second slam final (she followed up her '24 U.S. final w/ a SF, still her best result in a major this season), *but* she reached six finals (a career high, with a pair of 1000 RU results), and won three titles (ditto) on three surfaces (the only player on tour to do it) in her second 50-win season in three years. She extended her streak of seasons with #1 wins to three (Sabalenka in Wuhan), and ran her Top 3 win total to eight over the past three years. Late in '25, she helped the Bannerettes reach the BJK Cup final, and then reached the WTAF semis. Pegula's season win total (53) proved to be the most by a 30+ year old U.S. woman since Serena Williams a decade ago.
6. Sara Errani/Jasmine Paolini, ITA/ITA
...there was no true, clearcut *#1* doubles duo of the year in '25, but Errani/Paolini likely qualify as the top team based on their collecting more *big* wins than any other pair, including one major (RG, their first together) and a tour-leading trio of 1000 crowns a season after picking up Olympic Gold in Paris. The two also took part in a second straight BJK Cup title for Italy, winning a deciding doubles match to send the nation to the final. Individually, the Italians ended in a seven-way tie for the most tour-level doubles titles (4) this season, and with Babos/Stefani with the most won by any duo. Their five finals trailed only the six from the same pair, but they reached finals on three surfaces over the course of the season (from February-October) while Babos/Stefani's totals were mostly backloaded into the schedule's 4Q. On her own (well, sorta), Errani was top o' the heap alongside Andrea Vavassori in mixed doubles, winning at Roland Garros, at the Indian Wells invitational, and then upholding the honor and reputation of all the sport's actual doubles players by taking the U.S. Open's money-grab/doubles-specialists-insulting competition before the start of play at Flushing Meadows. With that title, they've won three of the last five majors.
7. Coco Gauff, USA
...no matter what Gauff does, a certain faction of the WTA "fan" base will always believe it's not enough. While 2025 wasn't Coco's *best* campaign, she still managed to finish at #3 for a third straight year, win a second major singles title (at RG), and even find a way around career-long obstacle Iga Swiatek. At one point, Gauff was 0-7 and 1-11 in their head-to-head, but has since won three straight, including a 2-0 mark this year that was highlighted by a 6-1/6-1 Iga-thrashing on red clay in Madrid. After having appeared in just two before this season, Gauff reached three 1000 finals, winning Wuhan and becoming the seventh woman to pull off the Madrid/Rome final combo (and fifth to also add an accompanying run in Paris), and recorded her most Top 10 wins (10) ever in a single season. Yes, consistency issues persist with her serve, leading to still more coaching experimentation, and she failed to advance out of round robin play in her WTAF title defense. But Gauff remains in elite complany on tour, and considering her persistence when it comes to trying to find the perfect coaching situation(s) that will get allow her to mold her game into its best form, there's still much reason to believe that the best for the (still only) 21-year old remains yet to come.
8. Italian BJK Cup Team
...there's no team like an Italian team. This year in the BJK Cup Finals in Shenzhen, Team Italia went about proving the notion once again. The current Cup format leaves open the possibility of the ultimate champion only having to compete one week over the course of the season, and that was the case this year as '24 title-winning Italians were automatically given (along w/ the host nation, which I'm still against in principle) a berth in the eight-team field at the Finals without having to go through the Qualifying Round. In successfully defending the title, Italy lost just one match across three ties (vs. CHN, UKR and the U.S.), but still had to rally for two singles wins in the QF (from 5-2 down in the 2nd/3rd in the opening singles match, then a set and 5-3 in the second), and win a deciding doubles match in the SF (courtesy of Errani/Paolini). The easiest time came in the final, with a pair of straight sets wins from Elisabetta Cocciaretto (vs. Emma Navarro) and Jasmine Paolini (vs. Jessie Pegula). With the title, Italy may have supplanted the Czech Republic as *the* dominant Cup nation this century. Winning a second straight title (ITA's second repeat, along w/ 2009-10) in a third straight final, this current run isn't even its most dynamic, as the nation reached five of eight finals from 2006-13, winning four times. Title #6 ties the Czechs for the most championships since 2000 (though CZE's most recent was now *seven* years ago), while Sara Errani's fifth career Cup title puts her behind only the likes of the competition's all-time greats (Evert-8, King-7, Casals-6, Kvitova-6) for the most ever as a player. Her first came sixteeen years ago as a "founding member" of Italy's multi-title winning "Quartet" (w/ Pennetta, Schiavone and Vinci). A year after providing the Cup-clinching singles win in the '24 final, Jasmine Paolini did it again this year against Pegula, becoming the first woman to do it in consecutive finals since countrywoman Flavia Pennetta in 2009-10. She went 3-0 in singles in the Finals event this year, clinching the QF with a win over Wang Xinyu (CHN) after rallying from a set and 5-3 down, then 4-2 back in the 3rd. She kept the SF tie w/ UKR alive with a win over Elina Svitolina after dropping the opening set, then helped win the deciding doubles.
9. Elena Rybakina, KAZ
...after a season of near-misses and crushing late-stage losses, Rybakina's stretch run to the finish proved to showcase the Kazakh at her very best as she concluded maybe the most interesting season on the Most Interesting Tour in the World. Before its final quarter, '25 was looking to be a just-missed-it sort of campaign for Rybakina. She managed to win a pre-RG title in Strasbourg, giving her four straight years with a tour crown, but while controversy often swirled around her coaching situation with Stefano Vukov she simultaneously failed to bring her best game in the biggest moments for much of the year. She lost tight SF matches to eventual champions during the hard court summer in Washington (Fernandez), Montreal (Mboko) and Cincinnati (Swiatek), after previously going out in the Berlin QF vs. Aryna Sabalenka after holding four MP, as well as in three sets both in the AO to eventual champion Madison Keys and Iga Swiatek at Roland Garros. Heading into the season's final weeks, and as late as the start of her concluding regular season event, Rybkina was on the outside looking in at the WTA Finals field, and needed every last drop of her QF-W-SF finish (8-1 after losing in the Beijing 3rd Rd., when her chances for Riyadh participation looked slim) to rise from her #9 position before her final pre-WTAF tournament to earn a berth in the field at #6. With her psychological mettle and game having been finely tuned, Rybakina finally tapped into the greatness that perpetually lurks just beneath her button-down surface as she bull-rushed a field of Top 10ers in Riyadh who weren't prepared to match what she brought to the court. After never having advanced out of round robin play in her two previous WTAF appearances, Rybakina went undefeated over her five matches this time around, defeating the Top 2-ranked players to win the title, destroying #2 Iga Swiatek in RR play after dropping the opening set vs. the player against whom she'd been 0-4 in '25, and then sweeping through the 2nd/3rd sets at 6-1/6-0. In the final vs. #1 Sabalenka, she claimed the title after a tight 2nd set battle concluded with Rybakina taking down the world #1 in a love TB (yes, Rybakina defeated *Sabalenka*, who won 19 consecutive breakers earlier this season, 7-0 in a TB) to take the match in straight sets. The Kazakh won the last eleven matches she played in 2025. Her WTAF win isn't her biggest ever (that'd be the '22 Wimbledon), but it *is* her biggest-ever points haul as, remember, one of Wimbledon's many horrendous decisions involving the tournament that year included not awarding the champions any ranking points. With her clutch closing stretch, Rybakina's entire season looks objectively different now than it did just a month and a half ago, as she ultimately won three titles for the second straight season, posted her second Top 5 year in the last three, her eleven Top 10 wins are her most ever in a single season (seven of then came in her final three events!), and her pair of #1 wins over Sabalenka in '25 give her eight in her career (behind only Venus Williams amongst active players). Even her "disappointing" slam year gets something of a glow-up in the more favorable light, as though she failed to reach a QF for the first time since 2020, her three 4th Round runs marked the first time she's ever reached the second week at a trio of majors in the same year. As has been said, "It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters, it's what you do when you walk out." While that doesn't entirely translate to *this* situation, in 2025, there is no question that Rybakina left the season stage having given the very best last impression imaginable.
10. Mirra Andreeva, RUS
...while the season wore her (and her results) down over the course of time, 18-year old Andreeva still did enough early on to be the top teenager on tour in '25, becoming the youngest to crack the Top 10 since 2007 (Vaidisova) and the Top 5 since 2004 (Sharapova). The Hordette's season can be separated into two parts, her crazy good start and her get-it-over-already, sometimes-unmoored finish. She started by going 20-3 out of the season's gate, winning back-to-back 1000 titles in Dubai and Indian Wells, as well as taking a 1000 doubles crown alongside Diana Shnaider in Miami (the duo reached the Olympic Bronze Match in '24). She collected *five* Top 10 wins in the first three months of the season, two over Iga Swiatek, two over Elena Rybakina and her first career #1 victory over Aryna Sabalenka. Andreeva was arguably the top player of 2025's 1st Quarter. After reaching the SF at Roland Garros last year, Andreeva wasn't able to reach that stage in a major this time around. Her best results in majors were back-to-back QF in Paris and London, with the latter seeing her get a sixth Top 10 win (Navarro). But from Wimbledon on, Andreeva's season quickly fell away and she allowed her in-match emotions to devolve as her results eroded. She ended the season by going 4-5 after Wimbledon. She stayed in the WTA Finals race until late in the year, but oddly decided to withdraw from Tokyo and forego her final chance to garner points toward a berth in the eight-player field in Riyadh. In her absence, Rybakina passed her by and knocked her out of the field (then went on to win the WTAF title). Still at the WTAF in doubles with Shnaider, Andreeva (at Race #9) was an alternate in singles, but pulled her name from consideration as an injury replacement due to a lack of fitness (or illness) at the start of the penultimate day of round robin play (#10 Ekaterina Alexandrova made her WTAF debut instead). Meanwhile, Andreeva/Shnaider went 0-3 in doubles in the event. Still, even with her late season fade, Andreeva went 40-16 on the season, and was one of just three players (w/ Paolini and Mertens) to finish in the Top 20 in both singles and doubles, and one of two (at #9 & #12) to finish in the Top 15.
11. Katerina Siniakova, CZE (WD)
...the #1-ranked doubles player in the world (again) -- for the second straight year, fifth time ever, and fourth season in the last five -- Siniakova added her to Hall of Fame-worthy career totals in '25. The Czech added two more slam crowns to her overall total, taking the AO WD (w/ Taylor Townsend) and Wimbledon MX (the first mixed major of her career, after her sweep of the WD/MX Olympic Golds in '24), as well as a pair of 1000 crowns (w/ Townsend and Storm Hunter) to collect four overall WD titles, including one with longtime partner Barbora Krejcikova in this year's brief Seoul reunion of the only women's duo to ever claim titles all four majors, the WTAF and the Olympics. She and Townsend also reached the U.S. Open final, the thirteenth major WD final for the Czech. Siniakova now has eleven slam wins, with ten coming in WD. Siniakova, with 170 weeks as doubles #1 (as of November 17), next year could pass Liezel Huber (w/ 199) for second place on the all-time WTA list for weeks in the top spot, behind only Martina Navratilova (237). Meanwhile, Siniakova didn't make a sudden singles leap ala Krejcikova in '25, but she continued to clearly make an effort to produce more on the solo side of her game. Her 37 match wins were her most since 2016, as she picked up her second 125 crown in the last two years, reached a 1000 QF (in Wuhan, her first since '18) and posted her eleventh career Top 10 win (def. Zheng at Wimbledon).
12. Li Xiaohui/Wang Ziying, CHN/CHN (WC)
...this season, Li & Wang became the first-ever Chinese doubles slam winners at the AO, RG and U.S. Open, with Wang also being the maiden singles slam champion from the nation at Wimbledon (denying Yui Kamiji in the SW19 final the lone major title she's never won, a feat only previously accomplished amongst women's rollers by Diede de Groot). The duo reached the finals of all four majors, as well as the Wheelchair Masters, ending the season at #1-#2 in the doubles rankings, while also finishing in the Top 4 in singles (#2 Li, #4 Wang)
13. Jasmine Paolini, ITA
...Paolini didn't repeat the stunning results on the slam stage that she had in '24 (when she reached two finals and went 18-4), going 8-4 and reaching just one 4th Round, but she otherwise had what would be considered an even *better* season in '25. Aside from leading Italy to a second straight BJK Cup title, Paolini was at her best in 1000 events: sweeping the s/d titles in Rome (the second Italian woman to do it in the Open era, and the first since Raffaella Reggin in '85), reaching the Cincinnati singles final (+2 more SF in Miami/Wuhan) and winning a tour-best three 1000 WD crowns with Sara Errani. Paolini won her maiden slam doubles title with Errani at Roland Garros, as well. The Italian posted five Top 10 wins (her most ever in a season), three of them vs. Top 3 players (including a 1 & 2 thumping of '24 RG final conqueror Swiatak in Wuhan), had more overall match wins this year than last (42-21 in '24, 46-21 in '25), topping her numbers on clay (12-5 to 13-3) and hard courts (19-10 to 27-12) and showing fine form late during her 9-2 4Q stretch in China (where she earned and fully embraced the nickname "Baozong" -- aka "Big Boss" -- from the Chinese fans). Her only singles dip came on grass, where her '24 Wimbledon final and 8-2 record slipped to 3-3 and a 2nd Round exit at SW19. At #8 and #3, respectively, Paolini is the only player the end the season ranked in the Top 10 in both singles and doubles.
14. Veronika Kudermetova/Elise Mertens, RUS/BEL
...the duo won just two titles in '25, but they were big ones on the grass at Wimbledon (their first major together) and on indoor hard courts at the WTA Finals. They also reached back-to-back clay court 1000 tournament finals in Madrid and Rome. In Riyadh, their season-closing title run included wins over the top two seeded teams, vs. #1 Errani/Paolini to win a head-to-head RR battle for a SF slot, then #2 Siniakova/Townsend in the following match, saving a MP in a 2nd set TB and then winning a MTB, to reach the final. Babos/Stefani proved to be the final hurdle to clear, and the pair's straight sets victory gave Kudermetova/Mertens their second WTAF title in four years (w/ 2022).
15. Madison Keys, USA
...though she managed to win her maiden major title at the Australian Open at the start of the year, or maybe *because* she did, Keys still found a way to have the "most Madison Keys type of season" as she possibly could (i.e. putting up a couple very big results amidst a bevy of disappointing ones, ending her year with a better standing than it *feels* like she should have, largely because her best results came so long ago, even though she clearly earned it). Keys began the season with an 18-1 burst, which included a title run in Melbourne as "new Maddi" ruled the courts. But even with such a hot start, and many clutch comeback wins (her four wins from MP down tied Krejcikova for the tour lead), she went a "just all right" 19-14 the rest of the year, saw her slam results dwindle with each event (W-QF-3r-1r), never beat a Top 10 player after January (when she had five such victories, only to go 0-6 vs. Top 10ers the rest of the way) and ended the season on a four-match losing streak. Keys' #7 finish gave her the second Top 10 season of her career, and the first since 2016.
*ADDITIONAL NOMINEES*
Ekaterina Alexandrova (RUS), Babos/Stefani (HUN/BRA), Belinda Bencic (SUI), Dabrowski/Routliffe (CAN/NZL), Anna Danilina (KAZ)-WD, Georgia Bulldogs (NCAA), Victoria Mboko (CAN), Elise Mertens (BEL), NED World Team Cup (WC), Siniakova/Townsend (CZE/USA), Dasha Vidmanova/CZE (NCAA), USA Jr. BJK Cup, Wang Ziying (CHN)-WC

The last ten...

2016 Angelique Kerber / GER
2017 Latisha Chan & Martina Hingis / TPE-SUI
2018 Simona Halep / ROU
2019 Ash Barty / AUS
2020 Sofia Kenin / USA
2021 Diede de Groot / NED (WC)
2022 Iga Swiatek / POL
2023 Iga Swiatek / POL
2024 Aryna Sabalenka / BLR
2025 Aryna Sabalenka / BLR


"Ms.Backspin" winners in the 2020s...



[2020]
1. Sofia Kenin, USA
2. Naomi Osaka, JPN
3. Simona Halep, ROU
4. Iga Swiatek, POL
5. Timea Babos/Kristina Mladenovic, HUN/FRA
6. Hsieh Su-wei/Barbora Strycova, TPE/CZE
7. Yui Kamiji, JPN (WC)
8. Aryna Sabalenka, BLR
9. Elena Rybakina, KAZ
10. Victoria Azarenka, BLR
[2021]
1. Diede de Groot, NED (WC)
2. Ash Barty, AUS
3t. Barbora Krejcikova, CZE
3t. Barbora Krejcikova/Katerina Siniakova, CZE/CZE
5. Shuko Aoyama/Ena Shibahara, JPN/JPN
6. Garbine Muguruza, ESP
7. Anett Kontaveit, EST
8. Desirae Krawczyk, USA
9t. Naomi Osaka, JPN
9t. Emma Raducanu, GBR
[2022]
1. Iga Swiatek, POL
2. Diede de Groot, NED (WC)
3. Barbora Krejcikova/Katerina Siniakova, CZE/CZE
4. Caroline Garcia, FRA
5. Ons Jabeur, TUN
6. Jessie Pegula, USA
7. Veronika Kudermetova, RUS
8. Elena Rybakina, KAZ
9. Ash Barty, AUS
10. Coco Gauff, USA
[2023]
1. Iga Swiatek, POL
2. Diede de Groot, NED (WC)
3. Aryna Sabalenka, BLR
4. Coco Gauff, USA
5. Elena Rybakina, KAZ
6. Canadian BJK Cup Team
7. Jessie Pegula, USA
8. Karolina Muchova, CZE
9. Marketa Vondrousova, CZE
10. Barbora Krejcikova, CZE
[2024]
1. Aryna Sabalenka, BLR
2. Iga Swiatek, POL
3. Jasmine Paolini, ITA
4. Katerina Siniakova, CZE
5. Sara Errani/Jasmine Paolini, ITA/ITA
6. Diede de Groot, NED (WC)
7. Coco Gauff, USA
8. Zheng Qinwen, CHN
9. Yui Kamiji, JPN (WC)
10. Italian BJK Cup Team
[2025]
1. Aryna Sabalenka, BLR
2. Amanda Anisimova, USA
3. Iga Swiatek, POL
4. Yui Kamiji, JPN (WC)
5. Jessie Pegula, USA
6. Sara Errani/Jasmine Paolini, ITA/ITA
7. Coco Gauff, USA
8. Italian BJK Cup Team
9. Elena Rybakina, KAZ
10. Mirra Andreeva, RUS

All for now.