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Australian media blast 'choker' Stosur

Samantha Stosur threw away a winning position in the final set against Zheng, who reeled off five games in a row to reach the next round.

Written by Agence-France Presse
Updated: January 17, 2013 09:24 am IST

Read Time: 2 min

Melbourne:

Australia's media didn't pull their punches on Thursday with howling coverage of Samantha Stosur's self-confessed "choke" at the Australian Open.

"It's beyond a choke for nervous Sam," headlined The Australian, after the ninth seed and former US Open champion surrendered meekly to China's Zheng Jie in round two.

"Abject Stosur sinks to new depths," said The Age, while the Herald-Sun went with "Home-groan talent," adding that the "Yips are getting bigger" for Stosur after a string of failures on Australian soil.

"Oh dear. Oh really. Just, oh," read the lead story in The Age. "Sam Stosur's latest Australian Open has ended early, disastrously and distressingly for another year."

Stosur threw away a winning position in the final set against Zheng, who reeled off five games in a row to reach the next round.

For the Australian, it was her sixth loss in seven matches on home soil, including last year's first-round exit at Melbourne -- which came just months after she won the US Open in New York.

The latest defeat left just two Australians, Bernard Tomic and wildcard James Duckworth, in the second round. The host country has never failed to get at least one player into the third round.

"Whatever word you want to put on it, at 5-2 up in the third, double break probably is a bit of a choke, yeah," Stosur admitted on Wednesday, adding that the loss was "100 percent" down to mental fragility.