Ashleigh Barty barely raised a sweat in storming into Wimbledon's third round with a crushing straight-sets victory over Alison Van Uytvanck.
Australia's world number one needed less than an hour to cast aside Van Uytvanck 6-1 6-3 on Thursday to extend her winning streak to 14 matches and further fuel hopes of landing back-to-back majors.
Barty next plays either British wildcard Harriet Dart or Brazilian qualifier Beatriz Haddad Maia on Saturday with a huge opportunity to embark on another deep grand slam run.
Ashleigh Barty (right) shakes hands with Alison Van Uytvanck after winning her match. Source: AAP
It comes as Barty was dealt yet another Wimbledon snub with her second round match on Thursday being shunted to Court Two.
Instead of taking on Van Uytvanck on the showpiece Centre or Number One Court in the afternoon, the French Open champion continued her campaign in the morning round of matches.
The surprising move from the All England Club came on the back of the Seven Network's controversial decision to leave coverage of the top seed's first-round match against China's Zheng Saisai and focus on the all-Australian battle between Nick Kyrgios and Jordan Thompson on Tuesday.
Wimbledon officials opted instead to showcase British battler Cameron Norrie's match against Japanese eighth seed Kei Nishkori for the Centre Court curtain-raiser.
Barty said pre-tournament she wasn't bothered where she played.
"There isn't a bad court at Wimbledon so wherever I'm scheduled to play on, we'll go out there and do our best," she said.
"The size of the court, they're all the same. The lines are the same."
Thursday's match. Source: AAP
The class act also shrugged off the unpopular move of Seven to take off their screens action showing Australia's best female player since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in her first match as world number one.
"If people can watch my matches, great," Barty said after her first round win.
"If they can't, they can't. That's up to the broadcasters, not me."
Kyrgios also believes Australia has the right to watch Barty ahead of him and said the 23-year-old deserved to have the whole nation behind her.
"What she's doing is incredible. I knew as soon as she got her head right and wanted it enough, the sky's the limit for her," Kyrgios said.
"I knew deep down she was always capable. When she took that year off, came back, she seemed to be refreshed.
"Now she's winning grand slams. It doesn't surprise me at all.
"I'm happy that she's got all the support. She deserves it."
An All England Club spokesperson said in a statement to AAP: "As always, the scheduling of the order of play each day at The Championships is a complex operation".
"We take great care when scheduling matches and allocating courts.
"All decisions are made with fairness and the best interests of the tournament, players, spectators and our worldwide broadcast audience at heart."
