Upper Austria Ladies: Bronzetti breezes past Kerber to make second round

Italian Lucia Bronzetti defeated German wildcard Angelique Kerber 6-1, 6-3 to reach the second round of the Upper Austria Ladies at the TipsArena in Linz.

Bronzetti, ranked No 58, will play No 4 seed Elise Mertens next.

Linz WTA 500, other first-round results (TipsArena, hard, USD 802.237, most recent results first):

• Petra Martic vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Dayana Yastremska vs. Erika Andreeva
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Sara Errani
• Clara Burel vs. Sinja Kraus
• Jule Niemeier (Q) beat Anna Blinkova: 6-3, 6-4
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Lucrezia Stefanini (Q): 6-2, 6-0
• Jaqueline Cristian (LL) beat Nadia Podoroska: 6-3, 6-4
• Clara Tauson (Q) beat Camila Giorgi: 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
• Jodie Burrage (Q) beat Varvara Gracheva (7): 6-4, 6-0
• Katie Boulter beat Jasmine Paolini (6): 6-2, 6-2
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Martina Trevisan: 6-4, 6-0