Stosur loses in Wimbledon first round

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SAM Stosur's Wimbledon's misery has deepened after the Queenslander's All England Club bogey returned to haunt her.

The 17th seeded posted her sixth first-round loss in 12 starts on the sport's highest stage, plunging to a 6-3 6-4 exit to Belgian's world No 69 Yanina Wickmayer.

Stosur's dismal Wimbledon record worsened to eight wins from 20 matches as the US Open champion unravelled in perfect conditions.

Coachless after splitting with Scottish mentor Miles MacLagan a week ago, Stosur was simply outplayed — and baffled.

"Yeah, pretty annoyed about it, to be honest," she said.

Samantha Stosur serves to 's Yanina Wickmayer during their first round match at the All England Club. Source: AP

"I don't have an answer 'cause, like I said, I do feel I played well; I think she played well and she stuck to it right from first point to last point.

"She did well to carry that through, and nearly without a blip.

"That's that. I still think I'm a good enough player to get through first rounds here, and for whatever reasons it's not happening."

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Stosur said she would not be rushed into finding a new coach, saying she would take her time.

Despite clubbing 13 aces to Wickmayer's four, the US Open winner could not match the Belgian from the baseline.

Stosur made a diabolical start, losing serve in the opening game as Wickmayer first paraded her lethal backhand.

Stosur hits a double-handed backhand to Wickmayer. Source: AP

Untroubled on serve, the Belgian maintained impressive pressure and momentum as Stosur searched for way to disrupt the baseliner.

Inspired by the courtside presence of former world No 1 Kim Clijsters, Wickmayer continued to hammer Stosur's flaky defences with her deadly backhand.

Pinning the Queensland deep into the backhand corner, Wickmayer earned a set service break — and the set — when Stosur netted a lame forehand.

The second set followed a similar pattern as Stosur struggled for rhythm as groundstrokes and nerves failed.

Wickmayer leaves the ground to hit a forehand return back to Stosur. Source: AFP

She slumped to what should have been a terminal service, allowing Wickmayer to serve for the match at 5-3.

For the first time in the contest, Wickmayer blundered to gift Stosur a lifeline.

But only four points later, Stosur faced another crisis at two match points down at 15-40.

She saved the first with a monster serve but she had no answer to the searing Wickmayer crosscourt forehand to bow out in 69 minutes.

Russian 32nd seed Elena Vesnina was the first player to reach the second round with a 6-4 6-4 thumping of Austrian Patricia Mayr-Achleitner

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