Nick Kyrgios has breezed and sneezed his way through to the Australian Open second round at Melbourne Park.

Australia’s 14th seed and No.1 title hope dispelled fitness doubts with a comprehensive 6-1 6-2 6-2 victory over Gastao Elias at Hisense Arena on Monday night.

Kyrgios’s biggest concern wasn’t a knee injury he carried into the season-opening grand slam but a recurrence of nose bleeds that required medical time-out early in the second set.