Sharapova hands out eggs in Melbourne

Maria Sharapova showed no mercy as she night to Monday, played his first match at the Australian Open.

At the Rod Laver Arena showed the confident freshman, she has ambitions for more, when she won with the digits 6-0, 6-0 over the british Harriet Dart.

the Darts were at no time in the fight cast doubt on the outcome, and the 22-year-old briton had to go from the fight without winning a single batch.

Sharapova showed by contrast, profits in the australian summer heat and got closed the match after just 31 minutes.

Sharapova, if she wins her next match, potentially face Caroline Wozniacki, who plays her first match at nine o'clock Monday morning, Danish time in the tournament's third round.

Sharapova is currently number 30 in the world ranking. She is also seeded as number 30 at the Australian Open.

In the second round, she met Swedish Rebecca Peterson.

In Melbourne is Maria Sharapova on the hunt for his sixth grand slam title. Of the five, she already has in the bank, you will find, among other things, a victory in the Australian Open in 2008.

Her latest grand slam triumph was in 2014 at the French Open.

In march 2016 could Sharapova tell you that she is during the Australian Open in January of the same year tested positive for the banned substance meldonium, and that she had used the drug for over ten years.

It resulted in a suspension from professional tennis two years as well as a masseflugt among the Russian's many sponsors. The quarantine was later reduced to 15 months, and she was at the Australian Open last year.

Here, lost to Sharapova in the third round.

Russia's Maria Sharapova. Photo: WILLIAM WEST / AFP