Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat qualifier Lucrezia Stefanini 6-2, 6-0 to reach the second round of the Upper Austria Ladies at the TipsArena in Linz.

Cocciaretto, ranked No 60, will play the winner of the match between Russian Anastasia Potapova, the No 5 seed, and Italian qualifier Sara Errani 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
• Anna Blinkova vs. Jule Niemeier: tuesday
• 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