The US Open champion had an unplanned break after her disappointing home summer - just one win from tournaments - ended in a first-round exit from the Australian Open.

After stumbling under the spotlight at her home grand slam, Stosur took a holiday on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula to clear her head. The world No.5 said the break, spent fishing and bushwalking, had helped her shake off the blues following her shattering loss to Romania's Sorana Cirstea in Melbourne.

``I am not waking up every morning thinking about it,'' Stosur said. ``I have the opportunity to try to start playing well again.

``Until I start doing that, it is still going to be a bit of a fresh memory.''

Stosur enjoyed watching the men's competition at the Australian Open from afar following her early exit. She was less keen about watching as the likes of winner Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sharapova made big inroads through the women's field.

``We are all competitors and you don't want to watch the others enjoying their success,'' Stosur said. Her next match will be in very different circumstances to those over the past month.

She will swap sweltering summer conditions for an indoor claycourt in Europe with the temperature tipped to be minus 18 degrees in Fribourg today.