In the early morning of March 7, Beijing time, the final of the WTA250 Lyon Station came to an end. In the end, after three hard sets, China's Jinhua Zhang Shuai defeated Yastremska 2-1 and successfully won the championship of the tournament. This is the second time that Zhang Shuai has won the tour singles championship in nearly 5 years, and she has become the sixth Chinese Jinhua to win the tour singles championship outside of her home country.
Li Na, who has won the most tour titles outside of her home country, has won a total of 9 tour titles in her career, of which 6 have been won outside of her home. Among Li's six titles, she won the 2011 French Open and the 2014 Australian Open, and she has won trophies in Gold Coast, Sydney, Birmingham and Cincinnati.
The first to win the championship outside the home country was Zheng Jie, who won a total of 4 tour singles championships in her career, all of which were won overseas. In the Hobart race in early 2005, Zheng Jie won her first personal championship. She has since won three titles in Estoril, Portugal, Stockholm and Auckland.
Another Golden Flower who has won the championship overseas is Sun Tiantian. Sun Tiantian has won one championship on the Tour in her career, the only one of which was in Tashkent in 2006.
In total, 3 of the active players have won the championship outside of their home country. Wang Yafan won the 2019 Acapulco tournament when she defeated American star Corning in the final. Zheng Saisai won the 2019 San Jose Top Tournament by defeating famous players such as Collins, Anisimova, Sakkari and Sabalenka. The most recent winner was Zhang Shuai, who successfully won the just-concluded Lyon race.