The No. 6 seed, who confirmed Stefano Vukov was not in attendance, needed just 53 minutes in her first Grand Slam match with coach Goran Ivanisevic Tuesday.

“I always said that he never mistreated me,” the 2023 runner-up said at a news conference the day before the start of the Australian Open.

Sabalenka has won back-to-back titles Down Under, but there are plenty of high-level players that can dethrone her in Melbourne.