Two years after the WTA boycotted playing events in China fearing for the safety of a star player, a major event has been moved there.

The five-time Grand Slam champion dispatched Rebecca Sramkova 6-0, 6-2 in a clean hour at the Australian Open on Thursday.

She did everything at pace in the second round, including quick claps of her racket to acknowledge ... 6-0 over Wang Yafan and faces No. 24 Yulia Putintseva in the third round.

She did everything at pace in the second round, including quick claps of her racket to acknowledge ... 6-0 over Wang Yafan and faces No. 24 Yulia Putintseva in the third round.

At other moments of anger, Medvedev hit a ball against the back wall, toppled a camera behind a baseline and punched his racket bag ... Yafan and faces No. 24 Yulia Putintseva in the third ...

Australia's tennis women will have to get past Elena Rybakina-fired Kazakhstan and Colombia on one home qualifying weekend if they are to make the finals of the revamped Billie Jean King Cup in China.

Learner Tien, a 19-year-old qualifier from California, became the youngest American man to reach the Australian Open's third round since Pete Sampras in 1990, upsetting a racket-tossing Daniil ...

She did everything at pace in the second round, including quick claps of her racket to acknowledge ... 6-0 over Wang Yafan and faces No. 24 Yulia Putintseva in the third round.