Laura Robson was born on 21 January 1994 and is a British former professional tennis player.
112 Facts About Laura Robson
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Laura Robson debuted on the ITF Junior Circuit in 2007, and a year later won the Junior Wimbledon championships at the age of 14.
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Laura Robson won her first tournament on the ITF Women's Circuit in November 2008.
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In singles tennis, Robson was the first British woman since Samantha Smith at Wimbledon in 1998 to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam tournament, doing so at the 2012 US Open and the 2013 Wimbledon Championships.
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At the 2012 Guangzhou Women's Open, Laura Robson became the first British woman since Jo Durie in 1990 to reach a WTA Tour final, where she lost to Hsieh Su-wei.
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Laura Robson was named WTA Newcomer of the Year for 2012 and reached a career-high singles ranking of world No 27 the following year.
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Laura Robson has a career-high doubles ranking of No 82.
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Laura Robson suffered from various injuries throughout the 2014 and 2015 seasons, notably to her left wrist for which she underwent surgery in April 2014, resulting in multiple prolonged absences from the WTA Tour.
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Laura Robson dropped out of the world rankings in early 2015, returning at No 906 in July 2015.
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On 16 May 2022, Laura Robson announced her retirement from tennis, aged 28.
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Laura Robson was born on 21 January 1994 in Melbourne, the third child of Australian parents Andrew, an oil executive with Shell, and Kathy Laura Robson, a sports coach and former professional basketball player.
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Laura Robson signed with management company Octagon when she was ten, with Adidas at age 11, and signed a racquet deal with Wilson Sporting Goods.
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Laura Robson competed in her first junior Grand Slam at the Wimbledon girls' event, as an unseeded player.
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Laura Robson's victory made her the first British player to win the girls' event since Annabel Croft in 1984, and the British media described her as the "new darling" of British tennis, and the "Queen of Wimbledon".
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Laura Robson later attributed her loss to Pervak's greater consistency, and her coach Bok said that "everybody has to be patient".
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Laura Robson was named the MCC Young Sportswoman of the Year.
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At the French Open, Laura Robson was the top seed in the junior's competition, but was defeated in round two by Sandra Zaniewska.
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Laura Robson was the defending champion at Wimbledon, but she fell in the second round to Quirine Lemoine.
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Laura Robson then faced the seventh seed Lauren Embree of the United States and beat her in three sets.
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Laura Robson went on to face the 12th seed, Tamaryn Hendler, who she defeated in straight sets.
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At the junior singles at the 2010 Australian Open, Laura Robson was unseeded and defeated Belinda Woolcock, Yulia Putintseva, and Cristina Dinu to reach the quarterfinals.
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Laura Robson was defeated by Kristyna's twin sister Karolina in the final.
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Laura Robson won two matches to qualify for the main draw of the tournament, as well as her first-round match, before having to retire with a shoulder injury in the second round against the second seed Marina Melnikova.
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Laura Robson was then given a wildcard into the main draw of the $75k event in Shrewsbury.
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Laura Robson was given another wildcard into the $50k in Barnstaple, but was defeated in three sets in her first round match against the seventh seed Angelique Kerber, who later said that it was "unbelievable how she's playing".
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Laura Robson lost in the first round against world No 42, Iveta Benesova.
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Laura Robson returned to the junior circuit for the first half of 2009.
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Laura Robson faced former world No 5 and 2002 Wimbledon quarterfinalist, Daniela Hantuchova, in the first round but lost despite being a break up in the second set.
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Laura Robson defeated Stephanie Foretz in the first round in straight sets, and went on to beat Aniko Kapros of Hungary.
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Laura Robson defeated Tetyana Arefyeva in the second round but was defeated in the quarterfinals by Vitalia Diatchenko.
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Laura Robson began the season playing with Andy Murray in the Hopman Cup, as part of Britain's first team in the tournament since 1992.
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Laura Robson lost her opening match to Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan.
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Laura Robson was defeated by Germany's Sabine Lisicki but won the mixed doubles against Germany.
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Laura Robson was granted a wildcard in the qualifying draw for the women's singles of the Australian Open.
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Laura Robson received a wildcard into the main draw of the doubles, partnering Sally Peers.
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Peers and Laura Robson won their third-round clash with Vera Dushevina and Anastasia Rodionova to advance to the quarterfinals, before falling to the No 15 seeds, Maria Kirilenko and Agnieszka Radwanska.
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Laura Robson played in the doubles, and after reaching the quarterfinals, she reached a career high of No 102 for doubles.
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Laura Robson followed this up with a quarterfinal appearance in Charlottesville losing to Anastasiya Yakimova.
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Laura Robson then went on to win her first-ever match on the WTA Tour, after her opponent Stefanie Vogele retired during the second set of their first-round match.
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Laura Robson received a wildcard for the Rosmalen Open but was beaten by Dominika Cibulkova in the first round.
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Laura Robson received a wildcard for Wimbledon, and faced fourth seed Jelena Jankovic to whom she lost in two sets.
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Laura Robson's next senior level competition was a GB Pro-Series event at Woking.
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Laura Robson beat Vesna Manasieva, but lost in the third round to Nuria Llagostera Vives.
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On 21 September, Laura Robson announced that she was to split with her coach Martijn Bok, as Bok was unwilling to meet her more demanding 2011 tour schedule.
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Laura Robson beat world No 57, Anastasija Sevastova, in the first round of qualifying and reached the main draw by beating world No 100, Simona Halep.
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Laura Robson was defeated in the first round of the main draw by the experienced 31-year-old player Greta Arn.
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For 2011, Laura Robson hired a new coach, Frenchman Patrick Mouratoglou, and moved her working base to Paris.
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Laura Robson's season was disrupted by injury at the Hopman Cup and she did not compete in a tournament until March 2011; her comeback was then delayed for a further month by an injury in her second competition.
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Laura Robson then won her first match at a Grand Slam tournament as she defeated Angelique Kerber, but lost to Maria Sharapova in the second round.
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At the US Open, Laura Robson won her three qualifying matches to advance into the main draw.
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Laura Robson came through three rounds of qualifying at the Australian Open, beating Melanie Oudin, Anna Floris and Olga Savchuk to advance to the main draw for the first time.
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Laura Robson lost to 13th seed Jelena Jankovic in the first round.
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Laura Robson lost in the third round of qualifying for the 2012 French Open at Roland Garros.
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Laura Robson reached the second round before losing to Ekaterina Makarova.
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Immediately after Wimbledon, Laura Robson entered the Palermo Open where she reached her first ever WTA Tour semifinal.
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Laura Robson continued her good form in the quarterfinal, where she emerged victorious against No 5 seed, Carla Suarez Navarro, in three sets.
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Laura Robson then received a wildcard to enter the main draw of the Swedish Open but lost her first match against Medina Garrigues.
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Laura Robson received a late place into the women's singles at the 2012 Olympics due to the withdrawal of Croatian Petra Martic.
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Laura Robson lost to the Russian world No 3 in a tightly contested match.
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Laura Robson competed in the doubles competition with Heather Watson, losing in the first round to the German pairing of Angelique Kerber and Sabine Lisicki.
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Laura Robson then received a wildcard entry into the mixed doubles with Andy Murray.
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Laura Robson had direct entry to the main draw of the US Open from her WTA ranking, where she defeated Samantha Crawford in the first round.
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Laura Robson consequently reached the third round of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in her career and joined Serena Williams, Lindsay Davenport, Venus Williams, Amelie Mauresmo and Justine Henin as one of the only six people to beat Clijsters at the US Open championships, and the first player to beat her there since 2003.
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Laura Robson followed up her performance with her first victory over a top-ten player, beating ninth seed Li Na in the third round, in three sets.
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Laura Robson became the first female British tennis player to reach this stage of a Grand Slam tournament since Samantha Smith reached the fourth round of Wimbledon 14 years previously, but she was defeated by defending champion Stosur, ending her best run at a Grand Slam tournament to date.
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Laura Robson reached the quarterfinals before losing to Chang Kai-chen in three sets, but the result ensured that she finished the year with a ranking of 53.
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At the start of the year, Laura Robson had reached the top 50 for the first time in her career.
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Laura Robson followed this with her first victory at the Australian Open with a convincing straight sets victory over Melanie Oudin.
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Laura Robson came back after losing the first set to beat Kvitova in a three-hour match, to set up a third-round meeting with Sloane Stephens.
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At Indian Wells, Laura Robson lost her first-round match against Sofia Arvidsson in three sets.
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Laura Robson was seeded 16th at Charleston and reached the second round before losing to Eugenie Bouchard in three sets.
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At the Katowice Open, Laura Robson was seeded eighth, but lost in the first round to Lourdes Dominguez Lino.
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Laura Robson represented Great Britain in the Fed Cup World Group II play-off against Argentina.
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Laura Robson lost her second match against Paula Ormaechea in three sets.
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Laura Robson then made her debut at the Italian Open where she defeated Venus Williams in the first round but subsequently lost to her sister, world No 1 and eventual champion, Serena Williams, in the second round.
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At the French Open Laura Robson was beaten in the first round by former world No 1, Caroline Wozniacki, in straight sets.
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Laura Robson beat world No 117, Mariana Duque, in the second round on Centre Court.
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Laura Robson's performance pushed her up to 27 in the world, the first Briton in the top 30 since Jo Durie in 1987.
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Laura Robson started her US Open Series campaign on 30 July 2013 at the Southern California Open in Carlsbad being drawn against Ayumi Morita, whom she beat having come back from a set down in two hours and 40 minutes.
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Laura Robson moved into the second round faced with the world No 7 Petra Kvitova from Czech Republic but lost in straight sets putting an end to her Southern California Open.
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At the US Open, Laura Robson returned after intensive rehab on her wrist injury and began her campaign against Spain's Lourdes Dominguez Lino, whom she had lost to twice previously.
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Laura Robson then fell in straight sets in the next round to Li Na in the same place they had played last year, where Robson had won.
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Laura Robson started strongly, with straight sets wins over qualifier Jovana Jaksic in the first round, and Zheng Saisai in the second round.
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In October 2013, it was announced that Miles Maclagan's coaching partnership with Laura Robson had ended and that she would be taking a couple of weeks out and starting the search for a new coach.
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Laura Robson started her 2014 season at the Hobart International, where she had to retire in her first round match against Yanina Wickmayer due to a left wrist injury.
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Laura Robson's wrist continued to affect her at the Australian Open, where Kirsten Flipkens defeated her in straight sets.
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The surgery forced her to miss the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open, and although Laura Robson initially hoped to be playing by the end of the season, she only started training in October, and did not play again in 2014.
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Laura Robson did not enter the Australian Open in 2015 and subsequently left the WTA rankings, having not competed for 12 months.
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Laura Robson lost to top-seed Daria Gavrilova, in straight sets.
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Laura Robson was granted a wildcard to compete at Wimbledon, but she was defeated in the first round by Evgeniya Rodina.
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Laura Robson started off the year playing some American Challenger events, with limited success.
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Laura Robson made her return to WTA events by using her protected ranking to enter Indian Wells.
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Laura Robson received a wildcard entry into the main draw of Miami and used her protected ranking to enter into the qualifying of Charleston but lost in the first round at both events.
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Laura Robson claimed her first main-draw WTA victory since 2013 in Rabat by defeating local wildcard Ghita Benhadi in straight sets.
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Laura Robson used her protected ranking to enter Premier clay events in Madrid and Rome, where she lost her first round matches to Victoria Azarenka and Christina McHale, respectively.
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Laura Robson had put on a promising display against Azarenka, but was unable to convert 8 out of nine breakpoints, allowing Azarenka to clinch victory in straight sets.
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Laura Robson was awarded a wildcard into Wimbledon for a second year, but was defeated in 69 minutes by Angelique Kerber in the first round in an error-strewn performance.
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Laura Robson was then given a wildcard entry to the 2016 US Open qualifying tournament.
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Post-US Open, Laura Robson lost in the first round in four out of six ITF tournaments, including a loss to a player ranked 1048.
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Laura Robson began her 2017 season at the Auckland, but lost in the first round of qualifying to Tereza Martincova.
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Laura Robson then played in the $60k tournament at Andrezieux-Boutheon and reached the quarterfinals, before losing in straight sets to Amra Sadikovic.
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Laura Robson won the biggest title of her career at a $60k tournament in Kurume, Fukuoka, defeating fellow Briton Katie Boulter in straight sets.
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At the beginning of her grass-court season, Laura Robson played the $100k event in Surbiton, but lost in the first round to Marina Erakovic.
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Laura Robson then played at Nottingham, but fell to Julia Boserup in the first round.
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Laura Robson reached the second round of the Ilkley $100k event before falling to Maryna Zanevska in three sets.
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Laura Robson received a wildcard for Wimbledon, but lost in the first round to Brazil's Beatriz Haddad Maia.
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Laura Robson continued to struggle with form throughout the latter half of the season post-Wimbledon, losing eleven matches and winning just seven on the ITF Circuit, including a loss in the first round of the qualifying draw at the US Open to world No 311, Alla Kudryavtseva.
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Laura Robson did play in the first round of the women's doubles draw with CoCo Vandeweghe, which they lost in straight sets.
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Laura Robson won her first-round match in a tight three-setter but eventually fell to fellow Brit and top seed Harriet Dart, after having to retire before the second set.
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However, this injury was not considered serious, and Laura Robson stated she planned to play some tournaments in about two weeks time.
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Laura Robson had a strong game from the back of the court and was noted for having an aggressive forehand return.
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Laura Robson has been praised for showing "extraordinary poise", and having "the attitude and technique required of a leading player".