On Episode 10, WTA Insider Senior Writer Courtney Nguyen reviews the winners of the 2015 WTA Awards, which were just announced this week. It’s a top-notch slate of deserving recipients that include Player of the Year Serena Williams, Doubles Team of the Year Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza, and Comeback Player of the Year Venus Williams.

You’ll also hear from 2015’s Most Improved Player, Switzerland’s Timea Bacsinszky, who talks about her breakout season, which saw her make her first Slam semifinal at her beloved French Open and finish the season at No.12. Always philosophical and grounded in her perspective, Bacsinszky talks about her quick yet steady rise, her struggle to deal with the increased attention back home in Switzerland, and why she’s flourishing in what she considers her “third” career.

“The comeback is over,” Bacsinszky says on the podcast. “It was the second career. Now I’m starting my third career, because I would obviously like to last long, to be healthy, and still enjoy playing.”

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You can also catch up on previous episodes of the WTA Insider podcast featuring other 2015 WTA Award Winners, such as Venus Williams and Petra Kvitova.

From winning three of the four Grand Slams to holding No.1 from start to finish and an historic lead at that top ranking for six weeks in the summer, it comes as no surprise that Serena Williams has been voted WTA Player Of The Year, her fourth straight and seventh overall time receiving the honor.

Williams won her 19th, 20th and 21st majors at the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon, and coupled with her 2014 US Open title she completed a Non-Calendar Year Grand Slam, her second self-stylized Serena Slam. Her first ran from 2002 Roland Garros to the 2003 Australian Open.

Her dominance of the tour was so great that she made WTA Rankings history in the summer, too. For six weeks she actually had over twice as many ranking points as the No.2, something that had never happened before – Maria Sharapova was that No.2 for three weeks, Simona Halep the other three.

But the Grand Slams and historic ranking points lead are just the tip of the iceberg on the World No.1’s season. Her overall record was a sensational 53-3 – she won two more big WTA titles at Miami (a Premier Mandatory) and Cincinnati (a Premier 5), the only losses coming in the Madrid semifinals (Petra Kvitova), the Toronto semifinals (Belinda Bencic) and the US Open semifinals (Roberta Vinci).

Williams also pocketed $10,582,642 in 2015, second only to her own $12,385,572 from 2013.

“One of the factors for my results is just me being free and really enjoying the game, just really enjoying every time I’m out there,” Williams said after winning Wimbledon. “Not that I didn’t enjoy it before, but these last eight Grand Slams have come after I got really sick, and I have a different outlook on life now. Even though I’m super intense on the tennis court all the time, I have more fun now.”

And when asked during the summer about her personal highlights, Williams didn’t just point to her on-court wins – she also pointed to her emotional return to a massive tournament she once dominated.

“I think Indian Wells was pretty amazing,” she said, referring to her comeback to the BNP Paribas Open for the first time in 14 years and reaching the semifinals before withdrawing due to a knee injury.

“And I think Serena Slam 2.0 – winning Wimbledon – was pretty awesome, too.”

Williams has now won WTA Player Of The Year seven times in her career – 2002, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. She’s now tied with Martina Navratilova (seven) and trails only Steffi Graf (eight).

Though she had to wrap her season up after the US Open, Williams heads into the 2016 season as a clear favorite to keep piling on the majors – she’s just one away from tying Graf’s Open Era record.

This award was voted for by media and fans. Williams won the media vote with 79% (Garbiñe Muguruza next with 12%); Agnieszka Radwanska won the fan vote with 52% (Williams next with 37%).

For Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza, 2015 could hardly have gone any better. After a flawless start to life as a team, in which they won their first three tournaments, Hingis and Mirza hit their first bump in the road during the clay court season, falling early in both Stuttgart and Madrid before being upset by Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova in the French Open quarterfinals.

From then on, though, they were virtually untouchable, winning 34 of their next 37 matches to take home titles at Wimbledon, the US Open, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Beijing and the BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore presented by SC Global.

Unsurprisingly, their remarkable feats resulted in them winning the WTA Doubles Team Of The Year award by a landslide. The pair have no intention of resting on their laurels.

“Martina and I have had an incredible year and I feel honored that we have been voted as the WTA Doubles Team Of The Year by the international media. We hope to continue with our dream run in 2016,” Mirza said.

Next year, Hingis and Mirza will look to add to their already impressive trophy haul, as they chase down the greats, like former WTA Doubles Team Of The Year winners Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver (1981-88), and Gigi Fernández and Natasha Zvereva (1993-95 and 1997).

“It is a great honor to be recognized as the WTA Doubles Team Of The Year by the international media,” Hingis said. “Sania and I have enjoyed every minute of the season and we hope to continue in 2016 in the same fashion. We both appreciate all the support that we have received from the fans, the media, the tournaments and the tour.”

Hingis and Mirza were the choice of 98% of the media polled for the WTA Doubles Team Of The Year award. They also won the fan vote with 58%.