Given all 11 teams are in the same boat, starting from scratch, Vasseur was keen to play down expectations for the season-opener in Australia in early March.

A major upheaval of the sport's technical rule book has meant a race against time for teams to be ready for the new season.

Gauff has won the US Open and French Open, but she has never triumphed at the Australian major.

A drained, hobbling and angry Nick Kyrgios said he did not know where his career was going next.