Australian tennis still craves a women's champion who can win a title at home, says former Australian Grand Slam champion Wendy Turnbull on her annual visit to her home city of Brisbane.
Turnbull, who won nine Grand Slam titles in doubles and mixed doubles, was reflecting on the high expectations faced by Australia's top-seeded women's player, Samantha Stosur.
Stosur has an impressive record overseas; but the Queenslander has comparatively struggled for success in front of Australian crowds. 
She won the 2011 US Open, becoming the first Australian woman since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1980 to win a Grand Slam singles title.
Stosur has also won five other Grand Slam titles to date: the 2005 US Open and 2006 French Open in women's doubles; and the 2005 Australian Open, 2008 and 2014 Wimbledon Championships in mixed doubles.
"Even though she says it has nothing to do with the fact that she is playing in Australia but well, oh yes it does," Ms Turnbull said this week.
The 1970s and 1980s Grand Slam doubles champion remembered that Australia was once very well represented among the sport's elite.
"In 1979 we had four women in the top 10 who were Australian; Evonne Goolagong, Kerry Reid, Dianne Fromholz and myself," she said.
"We are never going to have that again, but I would really like to see some Australians get up there again.
"For example if Sam did something wonderful in Australia that would certainly help. She won the US Open a few years ago, but people like to see you do well in Australia.
"When people see you successful on your home turf, it is something else, it is another level."
Turnbull doubted Australian tennis could never feature as prominently as it has in the past because "the rest of the world has discovered tennis".
Brisbane-born Stosur was beaten in three sets at the Brisbane International on Tuesday night in her second-round match by Spanish sixth-seed Carla Suarez Navarro.
Suarez Navarro led 6-1, 4-1 in the second set and held a match point with Stosur serving at 4-5, before Stosur rallied powerfully in front of a vocal home crowd to take the set in a tiebreak 7-3.
Though Stosur fought hard in the third set with her powerful forehand regularly finding the baseline, Suarez Navarro always appeared to have the match in control, winning the third set 6-4.
Turnbull, who was runner-up in the Australian Open (1980), the French Open (1979) and US Open (1977) and reached the Wimbledon quarter finals in 1979, 1980 and 1981, said she felt for her fellow Australian.
However she kept her observations about some of the past activities of the younger Australian male players to a few sentences.
"It's just immaturity as far I am concerned and showing off," she said.
"When I was playing, if I got a little bit out of control another player would tell you - it could be one of your friends - they would tell you."
After her second round loss, Stosur said she would re-assess her game before Sydney.
"I'll kind of reassess and I guess put together a bit of a plan as far as my training up until my first round in Sydney," Stosur said.
"It was a little bit sore on certain shots but overall it was pretty good. I've got days now to take care of it."
Meanwhile Brisbane has finally placed signs at the Wendy Turnbull Green, a park at Milton's Frew Park, which honours the former Grand Slam champion's tennis career.
The former champion said she was delighted to see Milton park now being used by families.
"After years of driving past Milton with the weeds growing up past my head and thinking to myself 'I can't believe they let Milton go like that'," she said.
"And to see what it is now, is just fantastic," she said.
Ms Turnbull said it was fitting the Milton site returned to tennis and named the Roy Emerson Tennis Centre with Wendy Turnbull Green.
"It is good to have something there to remind people that it originally was a tennis centre."
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