Caroline Garcia earned a hard-fought victory over impending new world No 1 Simona Halep in the China Open final to claim her second successive title.
The unseeded French player, who won the Wuhan Open last week, edged the Romanian in a hard-fought battle, 6-4 7-6(3), in Beijing for an 11th straight match victory.
Garcia will rise from world No 15 to ninth in the rankings on Monday. It's her first appearance in the world's top 10 and significantly pushes her into eighth place in the race to make the season-ending WTA finals.
Halep, broke Garcia's serve in the first game of the contest but the 23-year-old broke back immediately before securing a further break.
With the score level at 3-3 in the second set, Garcia saved nine successive break points in the seventh game, before taking a 4-3 lead but Halep recovered well to force a tiebreak with some forceful serving.
Garcia began the tiebreak well securing the mini-break and never looked back to become the first player to complete the Wuhan and Beijing double.
"I was like, seriously, this really happened?" Garcia said afterwards when asked what was in her mind when she slumped to her knees on match point.
"It was such an amazing two weeks, it went so fast, I have the feeling I started these tournaments yesterday or two days ago. To play every single day, it was just after every match you had to forget about what happened and be on the present again.
"Even this morning I couldn't believe I was in the final."
Meanwhile, Johanna Konta, who will miss this week's Hong Kong Open, will need to reach the final of the Kremlin Cup later this month to qualify for Singapore.