Upper Austria Ladies: Niemeier upsets Blinkova to reach second round
Jule Niemeier defeated Anna Blinkova 6-3, 6-4 on Tuesday evening and will play second seed Ekaterina Alexandrova in the next round
Jule Niemeier at the 2021 Hamburg Open
German qualifier Jule Niemeier advanced to the second round of the Upper Austria Ladies by winning against Russian Anna Blinkova 6-3, 6-4 at the TipsArena in Linz.
Niemeier, ranked No 159, will play second seed Ekaterina Alexandrova 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
- Angelique Kerber vs. Lucia Bronzetti
- 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
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