Samantha Stosur's Wimbledon dreams have crumbled after a straight sets defeat to 13th seed Ana Ivanovic in their third-round match on Saturday.
The Serbian glamour girl enjoyed a comfortable 7-5 6-2 win over the 18th seeded Queenslander who was completely outclassed in the 70-minute match.
Despite the disappointing result for Stosur, who had a fairytale run to the French Open semi-finals in early June, she walked away from the tournament having broken her second-round losing streak at Wimbledon.
Stosur's departure left Lleyton Hewitt as the only Australian left in the main draw.
He was due to play German Philipp Petzschner late on Saturday night (WST).
Stosur, who was cheered on by a loud group of Australian fans, struggled with Ivanovic's powerful serve and forehand throughout the match.
Ivanovic, a 2007 Wimbledon semi-finalist, stamped her authority from the very first game when she broke the Australian's serve and then went on to fire off five aces during the set.
Stosur managed to mount a mini-comeback in the eighth game to level the scores at 4-4 and then held her serve.
However two double faults from the Australian gave Ivanovic the chance she needed to break back and take a 6-5 lead before she held serve and wrapped up the set.
The start of the second set was nearly identical to the first with the Serb breaking in the first game and then again to go 4-0 ahead.
But she blew a match point in the seventh game when she misfired a forehand return into the net off Stosur's serve.
She made no mistakes in the final game.
With two match points up her sleeve, the Serb let out a squeal of delight as Stosur sent a forehand long.
The 21-year-old Serb stretched her win-loss record against Stosur to 2-1 having also defeated her at the Australian Open in 2006.
Ivanovic is trained by Australia's Darren Cahill as part of the adidas player development program.
She next faces defending champion Venus Williams in the fourth round.
Meanwhile, Australian teenage sensation Bernard Tomic beat Briton George Morgan 7-6 (7-1) 6-2 in their first-round meeting in the boy's draw.
Tomic, who is the No.3 seed in the boy's draw, had made his French Open debut in the men's draw in May but was bundled out by world No.31 Philipp Kohlschreiber in the first round.
The 25-year-old Queenslander admitted her errors had proved extremely costly.
"Losing my first service game didn't help at all but I got myself back into it," Stosur said.
"Everything was back on track and then I hit those two double faults, which you just can't afford to do, not at that time, and I really paid the price for that at the end."
LONDON AAP
