Williams has been stalled on 23 major singles titles since the 2017 Australian Open, when she was two months’ pregnant with now-three-year-old daughter Olympia.
The American teenager defeated Jil Teichmann 6-3, 6-7 (6), 7-6 (5) at the WTA’s Gippsland Trophy.
The 11th-seeded Pavlyuchenkova has been a quarterfinalist in three of the last four years at the Australian Open.
More than 1,000 players and officials went into a two-week quarantine from Jan. 14 when the first of 17 flights chartered by Tennis Australia landed in Melbourne and Adelaide.
Williams said she'd been crossing off the 14 days of quarantine on a calendar, having spent the time with her three-year-old daughter Olympia.
Murray is listed to play an indoor tournament in Biella starting Feb. 15, the Italian Tennis Federation said Wednesday.
Bopanna was on one of the three flights out of a total of 17 Tennis Australia-arranged chartered planes, that landed in Melbourne with positive cases on board.
All players arriving in Australia were required to undergo two weeks' quarantine along with their support staff.
The announcement comes a little more than a week after Murray said he tested positive for COVID-19 shortly before he was due to board a charter flight to Melbourne.
Paula Badosa, a 23-year-old who reached the fourth round at last year's French Open, wrote Thursday on Twitter that she received her test result for COVID-19.
More than 1,200 players, coaches, staff, officials and media have arrived on 17 charter flights since last Thursday to prepare for the Australian Open, which starts Feb. 8.
The ITF announced Monday that the international men’s tennis team event will run from Nov. 25 to Dec. 5, with 18 countries participating in six groups of three.
2016 champion Angelique Kerber, who is among the 72 players doing hard quarantine for 14 days, spent her birthday in quarantine on Monday.
As many as 47 players were earlier sent into hard quarantine after four coronavirus cases were detected on two charter flights that was transporting them to the country along with coaches and officials.
The positive test came from a passenger who was not a member of the playing contingent, Australian Open organizers said.
When Francesca Jones was young, she was told by doctors that she could not play tennis.
Some players were angry at being classified as close contacts merely for being on board those flights with people who later tested positive and, therefore, forced into a harsher quarantine than the broader group of players
Health authorities said two positive COVID-19 cases emerged from a charter flight from Los Angeles. The third positive test was from a flight from Abu Dhabi in the past 24 hours.
But the positive tests will force all passengers from that flight into a strictly-enforced 14-day hotel quarantine without the ability to leave their hotel rooms — and for the players not to be able to practice.
The first of about 1,200 players, coaches, entourage and officials were met by airport staff and biosecurity officials wearing personal protective equipment including masks and face shields, before being taken to hotel quarantine.
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