Upper Austria Ladies: Potapova too good for wildcard Grabher, moves into second round

Russian Anastasia Potapova, the No 6 seed, reached the second round of the Upper Austria Ladies by winning against Austrian wildcard Julia Grabher 6-2, 6-2 at the TipsArena in Linz.

Potapova, ranked No 33, will play Slovak Rebecca Sramkova next.

Linz WTA 500, other first-round results (TipsArena, hard, USD 1.064.510, most recent results first):

• Sinja Kraus vs. Anna Blinkova
• Katerina Siniakova vs. Elina Avanesyan
• Dayana Yastremska vs. Lucia Bronzetti
• Eva Lys vs. Petra Martic
• Aliaksandra Sasnovich vs. Anastasia Zakharova: tuesday
• Rebecca Sramkova beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 7-5, 7-5
• Sara Sorribes Tormo (Q) beat Lulu Sun: 6-3, 6-3
• Clara Tauson (8) beat Anhelina Kalinina: 6-3, 6-3
• Antonia Ruzic (Q) beat Mayar Sherif: 6-3, 6-4
• Sorana Cirstea beat Arantxa Rus: 5-7, 6-2, 6-3
• Viktoriya Tomova beat Jessica Bouzas Maneiro: 7-6 (7), 6-4