Australia's Samantha Stosur, who finished the year ranked No. 6 after winning the U.S. Open and reaching the semis of the WTA Championships, tells the Age that she thinks she’ll be able to handle the pressure of playing at home at the 2012 Australian Open. Stosur has never reached the quarterfinals there in 11 appearances.
"I don't know if there's anything I necessarily have to change; I was quite happy with the way I handled it all last year and came up against a player [Petra Kvitova, in the third round] who was playing very well and obviously has had a great year as well, so I don't think that was anything really to be ashamed of," she said. "But as each year goes by there are more things I have to experience and go through, and I don't think there's any greater experience than the U.S. Open, so hopefully that is going to put me into a good spot to handle all that going into the Aussie Open. I know it's going to be different in Melbourne than what it was in New York, but I'm looking forward to it."