After her 12th failed attempt, Samantha Stosur is no closer to solving the mystery of why she struggles so much at Wimbledon.
"I'm pretty annoyed about it, to be honest," the Australian 17th seed said after a first-round loss to unseeded Belgian Yanina Wickmayer on Monday.
"I don't really have an answer ... I still think I'm a good enough player to get through first rounds here and for whatever reasons, it's not happening."
Stosur's latest bid to replicate her hard and claycourt success on grass lasted little more than an hour as she fell 6-3 6-4 to world No.69 Wickmayer in one of the tournament's opening matches.
The 30-year-old has never made it past the third round at the All England Club and it is the sixth time she's fallen at the first hurdle.
Frustratingly for Stosur, she felt she didn't do too much wrong against her 24-year-old opponent, apart from giving away early breaks in both sets.
"I don't feel like I played that bad a match," said Stosur, who smashed 13 aces to 4.
"I thought she played very, very well."
The defeat came just days after Stosur parted company with her coach of seven months Miles Maclagan but she insisted the "amicable" split had no bearing on the result.
Stosur will begin her search for a new coach to turn around a frustrating season so far, but she's in no rush.
She took several months to appoint a successor to her coach of six years, Dave Taylor, last year and won't be picking someone for the sake of it.
"I want to really take my time and think about it and make sure I'm doing the right thing," Stosur said.
"I think I still know what I want out of (a coach). I don't think that's changing too much, but it's a hard thing.
"There's probably a handful of coaches that you might want to think about. They've probably all got jobs."
Stosur will play in doubles at the All England Club before a three-week break leading into the US hard court season and US Open, the event she won in 2011.
"There's still plenty of tennis leading up to New York," Stosur said.
"That's a time where I really do need to do all the things that I keep thinking about practising on the practice court.
"Just going out there and really just letting it happen when it counts."
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