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Katie Volynets and Donna Vekic, both qualifiers, clash for the first time in the Upper Austria Ladies Linz first round on indoor clay—the tournament's new surface for 2026. Volynets (No. 88), boasting a 62% win rate over the past year, advanced with a gritty three-set victory over Dominika Salkova, leveraging her physicality and defensive baseline game suited to clay. Vekic (No. 104), with a 48% recent success rate, survived a three-setter against Iryna Shymanovich after routing Carole Monnet, r