Stosur, 30, had partnered Bob Bryan to claim the 2008 mixed doubles championship at the All England Club, and triumphed at the 2005 Australian Open with Scott Draper. The former No.1 has also won women's doubles titles at both the French and US Opens with Lisa Raymond.

"We have played once before here at Wimbledon, don't know how many years ago it was, but didn't quite work out as well as this time,'' Stosur said of Zimonjic, a Davis Cup teammate of Novak Djokovic's. "We had a great week together. It was a lot of fun. Very thankful that Nenad asked me to play. Yeah, it was obviously a great tournament for us.''

A week after splitting with coach Miles Maclagan, the Queenslander lost in the first round of the women's singles to Yanina Wickmayer, and then in the third round of the doubles with Flavia Pennetta.

"I feel like I kind of played three different tournaments. My singles campaign was over pretty quick,'' she said. " Kind of had my singles, then my doubles, now my mixed. Look, it's always nice to leave a tournament winning no matter what the event or anything.  You know, I entered all three events wanting to try to do as best as I could.

"The other two didn't go quite as well as what I wanted to, but this kind of makes up for a lot of those disappointments. I think leaving Wimbledon 2014 I'll think of it as, yeah, a great memory, and leaving with a trophy at the end is fantastic.''

Next comes preparation for the US hardcourt season, and the search for a new coach.

"I've got a couple of weeks of training planned at the moment in the States, and then I've got three tournaments before New York,'' said Stosur, the US Open singles champion in 2011. "I know I've got a lot of practice and hard work to do. It's going to be a tough summer, but look, I think I'm playing well. It's just a matter of putting it all together on the singles court now for me. This is a great confidence booster, and hopefully I can kind of carry this through.''