Sam Stosur is working with Briton Miles Maclagan, a former coach of Wimbledon champ Andy Murray. Source: News Limited
SAM Stosur says she hopes her former coach of six years, David Taylor, will be able to work with another Australian tennis player in future after it emerged that he has been hired by a young Croatian.
Stosur is almost three weeks into her association with Briton Miles Maclagan, a former coach of Andy Murray among others, as she searches for ways to end her run of outs at Australian tournaments.
Taylor is working on a trial basis in Florida with Ajla Tomljanovic, a 20-year-old ranked No.77, and will join her in Australia later this month.
The former Australian Fed Cup captain had coached Stosur for six years, during which she won the 2011 US Open and broke into the world's top five.
"He definitely has a lot of great assets and if he could stay in Australia, it would be great, but there has to be that right matchup between player and coach,''' Stosur said.
"I don't know if Dave had options in staying with an Australian player this time.''
The employment of Taylor and Roger Rasheed, who will guide Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov at the Brisbane International, by foreign players harks back to the days when Darren Cahill, Taylor and Bob Brett among others guided the careers of non-Australians and raised fears in Australian tennis of a "brain drain''.
"I'm working with a foreigner for the first time now in terms of a long-term one,'' Stosur said.
"It's nice to work with someone from your own country or with a similar culture.''
David Taylor in his former guise as Australia's Fed Cup captain, with Sam Stosur in the background Source: AP
Stosur, Australia's top-ranked player at No.18 in the world, said she is getting more comfortable with each day of practice with Maclagan and he had expressed trust in her knowledge of what works for her.
An early test of their partnership will be her results in Australia, where she won one match last summer in three tournaments, continuing a trend in which the Gold Coaster is yet to make an Australian Open quarter-final.
"He wants a lot of input from me, what I need to do. He recognises I'm older than a lot of the players on tour and can work out what's best for me,'' Stosur said.
"He is quite laid back, which works with me, as I'm a bit similar. But he works very hard and doesn't shy away from time on the court - we have barely done one session less than two hours.''
Stosur is having Christmas with her family at the Gold Coast in a two-day visit before she flies out for the Hopman Cup, which starts on Saturday week.
She has confessed to past struggles with expectations at Australian tournaments and her choice of Perth and the Hobart International instead of Brisbane and Sydney will mean there is not the same media focus on her form.
"It may end up working out that way. The idea of going to Perth was to get those three matches, win or lose,'' she said.
"Why I haven't necessarily played well in Melbourne was I hadn't won matches and had no momentum. In Hobart, you are not going to play a top-20 player first up. I haven't left the Sydney tournament feeling too terrific the past few years, feeling a bit negative.''
Speculation has been fanned that Roger Federer will work with Stefan Edberg as a coach after Edberg completed a training week with the Brisbane International top seed and his team in Dubai.
"It was great spending time with one of my childhood heroes,'' Federer wrote on Twitter.
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