Qualifier Jodie Burrage won against Frenchwoman Varvara Gracheva, the No 7 seed, 6-4, 6-0 to reach the second round of the Upper Austria Ladies at the TipsArena in Linz.

Burrage, ranked No 102, will face the winner of the match between Romanian lucky loser Jaqueline Cristian and Argentinian Nadia Podoroska 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
• Jaqueline Cristian vs. Nadia Podoroska
• Clara Tauson vs. Camila Giorgi
• Katie Boulter beat Jasmine Paolini (6): 6-2, 6-2
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Martina Trevisan: 6-4, 6-0