Frenchwoman Gwladys Nocera and Pornanong Phatlum, of Thailand, share the first-round lead at the Suzhou Taihu Ladies Open after the pair both carded four-under-par 68s in China on Friday.

Nocera recovered from a dropped shot at the fourth to make six birdies, with another bogey at the 12th her only other blemish, while Pornanong managed five birdies against just one bogey - also at the par-four 12th.

The duo lead Finland's Minea Blomqvist and Korean Bo Mih Suh, who both shot 69s, by a stroke.

Blomqvist began well with two birdies in her first four holes but bogeys at the ninth and 12th checked her progress. However, she picked up two further strokes to eventually finish three-under. Bo, by contrast, collected four birdies against a solitary bogey at the par-five 18th.

England's Lora Fairclough, Australian Frances Bondad and Julieta Granada finished bunched together on two under.

Paraguayan Granada was level par through 11 holes before an ace at the par-three third when a six-iron from 153 yards found the hole saw her move into contention.

Collated first round scores in the Ladies European Tour Suzhou Taihu Ladies Open, Suzhou Taihu International GC, Shanghai, China

(Par: 72)

68 Gwladys Nocera (Fra), Pornanong Phatlum (Tha)

69 Minea Blomqvist (Fin), Bo Mi Suh (Kor)

70 Frances Bondad (Aus), Lora Fairclough (Eng), Julieta Granada (Par)

71 Nontaya Srisawang (Tha), Jenni Kuosa (Fin), Anna Rawson (Aus), Becky Brewerton (Wal)

72 Karen Lunn (Aus), Nicole Montgomery (Aus), Mei Hao Huang (Chn), Morgana Robbertze (Rsa), Martina Gillen (Irl), Samantha Head (Eng), Li Ying Ye (Chn), Marianne Skarpnord (Nor), Iben Tinning (Den), Carmen Alonso (Spa), Tzu Chi Lin (Tpe), Virginie Lagoutte-Clement (Fra), Claire Louise Aitken (Eng)

73 Christine Hallstrom (Swe), Smriti Mehra (Ind), Jia Yun Li (Chn), Ursula Wikstrom (Fin), Riikka Hakkarainen (Fin), Ying Luo (Chn), Rungthiwa Pangian (Tha), Jade Schaeffer (Fra), Laurette Maritz (Rsa)

74 Sahra Hassan (Wal), Shuang Gao (Chn), Clare Queen (Sco), Rebecca Coakley (Irl), Yun Yan Bai (Chn), Sophie Giquel (Fra), Jessica Ji (Kor), Xiao Zheng Ren (Chn), Julie Tvede (Den), Titiya Plucksataporn (Tha), Zuzana Masinova (Cze), Xaio Rong Wei (Chn), Hazel Kavanagh (Irl)

75 Hong Lian Wu (Chn), Liu Mei Zhong (Chn), Lee-Anne Pace (Rsa), Jae Sook Won (Kor), Yu Huan Liu (Chn), Km Juul (Den), Jin Cui Yang (Chn), Wen Wen Wang (Chn), Yue Xia Lu (Chn), Porani Chutichai (Tha), Florentyna Parker (Eng), Cecilie Lundgreen (Nor)

76 Jin Feng Cao (Chn), Bing Lim (Mal), Eva Steinberger (Aut), Boo Mi Park (Kor), Georgina Simpson (Eng), Lynn Kenny (Sco), Ko-Chen Yeh (Tpe), Qin Zhou (Chn), Xiao Long Zhong (Chn), Hong Mei Yang (Chn), Tiranun Yoopan (Tha), Yan Jing (Chn), Hai Ying Zhang (Chn), Anna Knutsson (Swe), Ling Hu (Chn), Xiao Xuan Zhou (Chn)

77 Ling Ling Tan (Chn), Bronwyn Mullins-Lane (Aus), Wan Zhen Chen (Chn), Kirsty S Taylor (Eng), Mei Ping Lu (Chn), Cai Zhu Guo (Chn), Xin Wang (Chn)

78 Ying Hua Wang (Chn), Jing Zhang (Chn), Juan Liu (Chn), Ping Huang (Chn), Yan Hua Wang (Chn), Vikki Laing (Sco), Xiao Di Liang (Chn)

79 Tara Delaney (Irl), Xiao Hong Chen (Chn), Hyun-Jin Park (Kor), Yuan Yuan Li (Chn), Yu Yu Zhang (Chn)

80 Melodie Bourdy (Fra), Lai Wong (Hkg), Dan Li (Chn), Sanniya Sharma (Ind)

81 Denise-Charlotte Becker (Ger), Lidya Ivana Jaya (Ind), Jia Zhang (Chn), Narisara Kerdrit (Tha)

83 Xiao Yang Liu (Sin)

84 Valerie Tan, Heidi Chua (Phi)

85 Betty Ng (Hkg)