Jelena Ostapenko only made it into the main draw thanks to a last-minute wild card and justified her nomination with a remarkable comeback win against Clara Tauson and then three extremely dominant performances. The 2017 French Open winner picked up in the final where she had left off in the semi-final against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. She dominated with a strong serve and uncompromising groundstrokes, letting Alexandrova run and was the boss on court at every stage. However, her opponent did not play a bad match. Alexandrova tried out a lot and even made fewer mistakes than Ostapenko, against whom she lost in the semi-finals in Adelaide a few weeks ago. As then, Ostapenko was a class above this time too. The world number twelve hit a total of 28 winners, kept pushing herself and was simply unstoppable. After converting the match point, she was beaming all over her face and couldn't wait to finally receive the glittering trophy.

Ostapenko said after her victory: "After I won my first match here, I had the feeling that I could win the tournament. I felt better from match to match. I was in the final here just over three years ago, but now I'm holding the trophy in my hand and I think it's more beautiful than it was back then anyway."