Thanks to the victory in the tournament in Shenzhen, Alexandrova rose from 34th to 26th place in the rating. This is the best result among all Russians. The former first racket of Russia, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, dropped from 29th to 31st line.
The leader is still the representative of Australia Ashley Barty.
It was previously reported that Kasatkina lost to Bencic in the first round of the WTA tournament in Adelaide.