Upper Austria Ladies: Top seed Ostapenko moves into last eight

Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the top seed, moved into the last 8 of the Upper Austria Ladies by edging out Dane qualifier Clara Tauson 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7) at the TipsArena in Linz on Thursday evening.

Ostapenko, ranked No 12, will play qualifier Jodie Burrage next.

Tauson, ranked No 91, won against Italian Camila Giorgi (3-6, 6-3, 6-3) in the previous round of the Linz tournament.

Linz WTA 500, other second-round results (TipsArena, hard, USD 802.237, most recent results first):

• Anastasia Potapova (5) beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 2-6, 7-6 (9), 7-5
• Donna Vekic (3) beat Dayana Yastremska (WC): 6-1, 6-1
• Clara Burel beat Katerina Siniakova: 6-3, 5-7, 6-4
• Elise Mertens (4) beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-1, 6-3
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Katie Boulter: 7-6 (2), 6-4
• Ekaterina Alexandrova (2) beat Jule Niemeier (Q): 6-3, 6-0
• Jodie Burrage beat Jaqueline Cristian (LL): 6-3, 7-6 (5)