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Serena shook off some COVID-19 layoff rust to grind out a 7-6(6), 3-6, 7-6(0) win over Arantxa Rus to move into the third round of the Western and Southern Open.
Ecclestone's wife Fabiana Flosi, 44, has given birth to a baby boy and he has been named Ace.
The former world No. 1 played for the first time in nearly three years at fellow Serb Novak Djokovic's charity tournament on Friday.
The Prague tournament - played among the top Czech men's and women's players but without fans and with ball boys and girls wearing gloves and face masks - was one of the first after professional tennis was suspended in early March.
As of Monday, there have been over 89,000 cases of the virus globally, the majority in China, according to a Reuters tally. Outside of China, it has spread to 66 countries, with more than 8,800 cases and 130 deaths. Globally, the illness has killed over 3,000 people.
Factbox on Russia's Maria Sharapova who announced her retirement from tennis on Wednesday at the age of 32.
Thrashed 6-1, 6-4 by Kvitova last year, top seed Barty rode on a wave of crowd support as she defused the twice Wimbledon champion's power game before running away with the contest.
The unseeded former world No. 1 won 6-3, 6-3 on Rod Laver Arena and faces 30th seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia in the last eight.
After dropping serve early in the second set, third seed Osaka threw her racket, slammed a ball into the court and gave her racket a kick for good measure before steadying the ship and earning a 6-2, 6-4 win over Zheng Saisai.
Barty needed to win to be sure of progressing having won one and lost one of her opening matches, and she did so in style as she dominated to win in 88 minutes against a tired looking Kvitova, who exits the competition with three straight losses.