MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Tennis star
Coco Gauff cried
losing the TikTok app at home, writing on a TV camera lens “RIP TikTok USA” and drawing a broken heart right after winning a game at
The Australian Open reaches the quarter-finals.
Gauff’s three-set victory in the main stadium of the Grand Slam tournament ended Sunday afternoon local Melbourne time, about an hour after TikTok was no longer found on major app stores on Saturday in the United States.
-A US federal law that would have banned the popular social media platform was set to take effect. Apple and Google app stores are barred from offering TikTok under a law that requires its China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the platform or face a ban in the United States.
When users opened the TikTok app, they encountered a pop-up message from the company that prevented them from scrolling through videos.
Gauff has frequently posted on TikTok, often imitating popular trends.
