Upper Austria Ladies: Qualifier Tauson upsets Giorgi to book spot in second round
Clara Tauson defeated Camila Giorgi 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 on Tuesday and will face top seed Jelena Ostapenko in the next round
Clara Tauson © Gepa / Panoramic
Dane qualifier Clara Tauson won against Italian Camila Giorgi 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 to reach the second round of the Upper Austria Ladies at the TipsArena in Linz.
Tauson, ranked No 91, will play top seed Jelena Ostapenko next.
Linz WTA 500, other first-round results (TipsArena, hard, USD 802.237, most recent results first):
- Anastasia Potapova vs. Sara Errani
- Dayana Yastremska vs. Erika Andreeva
- Petra Martic vs. Katerina Siniakova
- Clara Burel vs. Sinja Kraus
- Angelique Kerber vs. Lucia Bronzetti
- Anna Blinkova vs. Jule Niemeier
- Lucrezia Stefanini vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto: tuesday
- Jaqueline Cristian (LL) beat Nadia Podoroska: 6-3, 6-4
- 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
