Laura Robson Biography | Laura Robson Lifestyle

Laura Robson Biography | Laura Robson Lifestyle

 Laura Robson is a talented British tennis player who debuted on the ITF Junior Circuit in 2007. She started playing tennis "as soon as she could hold a tennis racquet", and she entered a junior tennis academy at age seven. She turned professional in 2008, at the age of just 14, and reached the fourth round of the 2012 US Open and the 2013 Wimbledon tournament. She won the Wimbledon Junior Girls' Championship right before turning professional as well as she won silver in the mixed doubles competition at the 2012 London Olympics for Great Britain, playing alongside Andy Murray. Laura made her TV show debut on 25th June 2011, in the news series "Breakfast". Additionally, Robson announced her retirement from tennis on 16th May 2022, aged 28.Laura Robson stepped into the world for the very first time on 21st January 1994 in Melbourne, Australia. She holds Australian nationality and she belongs to the Australian-white ethnicity. Similarly, her religious belief is in the Christian religion and her race is white. 

Laura recently celebrated her 28th birthday in the January of 2022 and as per her birth date, her zodiac sign is Aquarius. She is the daughter of her father, Andrew Robson (Oil Executive), and her mother, Kathy Robson (Sports Coach and Former Professional Basketball Player). She also has two siblings, Nick Robson (Brother) (Professional Swimmer), and Emily (Sister).Laura Robson conceived her career by starting training at the National Tennis Centre as her first tournament on the Junior ITF Circuit was in 2007 where she reached the finals of three tournaments in the first half of 2008 but was also eliminated before the third round in three straight tournaments. 

She competed in her first junior Grand Slam at the Wimbledon girls' event, as an unseeded player and beat top seed Melanie Oudin on her way to the finals where she defeated third seed Noppawan Lertcheewakarn. Her victory made her the first British player to win the girls' event since Annabel Croft in 1984. She was shortlisted for the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year at the end of the year but lost out to Paralympic swimmer Eleanor Simmonds. She then entered the junior tournament of the 2009 Australian Open, where she was seeded fifth and claimed the top ranking of the ITF Junior Tour in April. She was the top seed in the junior competition at the French Open but was defeated in round two by Sandra Zaniewska. She entered the US Open unseeded due to her focusing on her senior career and faced Yana Buchina of Russia in her semifinal. Despite starting strongly, she tired, losing the match in three sets. Robson was unseeded and defeated Belinda Woolcock, Yulia Putintseva, and Cristina Dinu to reach the quarterfinals in the junior singles at the 2010 Australian Open.

Laura Robson made her debut on the ITF Women's Circuit circuit at a $10k tournament in Limoges, France, and was then given a wildcard into the main draw of the $75k event in Shrewsbury. She 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. Her first match on the WTA Tour was courtesy of a wildcard into the Luxembourg Open but, she lost in the first round against world No. 42, Iveta Benesova. 

She returned to the junior circuit for the first half of 2009 and 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. She received also a wildcard into the US Open qualifying in August 2009 and entered the qualifying draw at the Luxembourg Open on 17th October.