Sam Stosur still finding motivation at scene of greatest triumph | Simon Cambers

The 2011 US Open champion says that as long as she has the desire to win she remains a contender

Sam Stosur was returning to her New York hotel, ecstatic having just made the final of the US Open for the first time. Beaten in her only previous grand slam final, at the French Open the previous year, few people thought she could beat Serena Williams in the final at Flushing Meadows. But as she unloaded her tennis bags, she experienced a rare feeling.

“The night before [the 2011 final], we were getting back after I beat [Angelique] Kerber in the semis,” Stosur tells Guardian Australia on the eve of this year’s event, where she will play No 2 seed Caroline Wozniacki in the first round on Tuesday. “I rocked up back to the hotel, we were all getting out of the van and I don’t know, I was just like, I’m going to win tomorrow. I was really sure about what was going to happen. I felt like this was my turn and it all came together.”

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