Upper Austria Ladies: Potapova too good for wildcard Grabher, moves into second round
Anastasia Potapova won against Julia Grabher 6-2, 6-2 on Tuesday evening and will face Slovak Rebecca Sramkova in the next round
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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
