'Don't think that's relevant': Amanda Anisimova refuses to elaborate on reporter's USA question

US star Amanda Anisimova refused to take the bait when questioned by a reporter how she felt about representing America.

Anisimova spoke to media after her 6-1, 6-4 victory over Czech star Katerina Siniakova in Melbourne and one reporter wanted to get her viewpoint about the state of the US and if she felt conflicted playing for her country amid what some would call political turmoil in the nation.

The reporter asked: "I've been asking a lot of the American players how it feels to play under the American flag right now. I'm curious how you feel?"

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"I was born in America so I'm always proud to represent my country. A lot of us are doing really well," she responded.

"It's great to see a lot of great athletes on the women's and men's side."

The reporter chimed back in: "In the context of the last year of everything that's been happening in the US, does that complicate that feeling at all?"

Anisimova clearly understood the main theme behind the question but offered a blunt response.

"I don't think that's relevant."

Several US players have been asked questions along the same lines. Some directly mentioned US President Donald Trump others didn't. But all the players had some idea of what the reporter was getting at.

American Coco Gauff was a lot more open as she always has been, saying it's "hard being a black woman" in the United States.

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"I hope forward that we can have a lot more peace in our country and more kindness in the way we speak to each other about different topics and things like that," she said after her round two win. "Obviously I've been pretty vocal about how I felt.

"At this point, I feel a bit fatigued talking about it just because of the fact that it is hard being a Black woman in this country and having to experience things, even online, and seeing marginalised communities being affected and knowing that I can only donate and speak out."

Madison Keys wasn't quite as blunt when asked about representing the US with Trump in the White House.

"I think my stance has been pretty obvious. I think it's pretty obvious where I stand, and I am hopeful that we as a country can come together and get back to the values that I think make our country great," the Australian Open women's singles reigning champion said.

"I am not a fan of divisiveness, and I think the beauty of the US is we are a mixing pot. We are very diverse. We are a home of immigrants. and I hope that we can get back to those values."

Understandably, Taylor Fritz did not want to make any headlines when he was asked how he felt representing the US during this time.

"I mean, not sure what we're like specifically talking about, but there is a lot going on in the US, and I don't know," he said.

"I feel like whatever I say here is going to get put in a headline, and it's going to get taken out of context.

"So, I'd really rather not do something that's going to cause a big distraction for me in the middle of the tournament."

Jessica Pegula, the daughter of billionaire Buffalo Bills owner Terry Pegula, also preferred not to "dabble in politics."

"Yeah, that's a tough question. I feel, you know, I don't know. I don't like to kind of dabble too much into politics, just because it's just not the space that I really want to say that much on," she said.

"But yeah, I just hope that everybody can kind of, at some point, come together and work together as far as situations or whether it's political or not political in our country.

"I feel like we have a big country where there's a lot of media attention on us too, and that's tough because things definitely make their way around the world, and even me being in Australia, you hear about all these things going on back home.

"But I just hope you know that we can come together at some point with like a good dialogue where things can actually get accomplished and things that we want to see accomplished, and it not be so divisive, I guess."

US politics has been heavily intertwined with sport recently, with players, fans and coaches expressing their opinions during media gatherings.

During a recent NBA game in London a man yelled "leave Greenland alone'" during the US national anthem.

The remark drew a round of applause from the crowd at London's O2 Arena.

A new survey by VoteHub found the US sports league with the most Republican support is Major League Baseball, with 53.7 per cent of players backing Trump's party from a sample of 434.

Hockey came in second with 43.9 percent of respondents backing Trump out of 109 athletes. Fifty independents were also counted along with six Democrats.

Around 20.2 per cent of 752 players surveyed in the NFL identified as Republican, with 34.3 percent counting as Democrat.