Veronika Kudermetova and Liudmila Samsonova defeated the American pair of Shelby Rogers and Coco Vandeweghe, 6-3, 6-3, after the teams split the two singles matches of their semifinal.

World No. 12 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova rallied to beat Alize Cornet, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, to clinch Group A for her nation.

Wednesday's ties will determine the semifinalists with Australia and Switzerland in pole position to advance into the final four.

Maria Sakkari, Ons Jabeur and Emma Raducanu are also among the players who set new highs this week.

The top-ranked Russian squeezed in some shopping before she made a winning start to her Kremlin Cup campaign.

US Open champion Emma Raducanu also reaches a new career-high, rising one spot to No. 22.

The Tokyo mixed doubles champions were in sync once again, this time showing how to stylishly coordinate.

The two attended Smash Bash at the Pierre hotel.

Belinda Bencic, Alexander Zverev, Elina Svitolina and a Russian Olympic Committee contingent felt the love when they returned from Tokyo with their special hardware.

Also at the Tokyo Olympics, Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova became the first team from the Czech Republic to stand atop the podium.