Upper Austria Ladies: Bronzetti breezes past Kerber to make second round
Lucia Bronzetti defeated Angelique Kerber 6-1, 6-3. She’ll play No 4 seed Elise Mertens in the next round
Lucia Bronzetti, 2024 (Gepa / Panoramic)
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
