Laura Robson ready for world stage

The week after next, Laura Robson will take a first, significant swing of her racket on the main WTA Tour, as the 14-year-old has been given a wild card entry for a tournament in Luxembourg. At the ready: Laura Robson has been given a wild card entry for a tournament in Luxembourg Photo: GETTY IMAGES Others on the entry list for the event in the Grand Duchy include Olympic gold medallist Elena Dementieva, Daniela Hantuchova, and former Wimbledon champions Lindsay Davenport and Amelie Mauresmo, so it will be the big time for Robson in little Luxembourg. Robson versus any of those four would be quite an introduction to the tour proper. To think that, before she won this summer’s junior Wimbledon, few outside the British tennis scene had even heard of the Londoner. And there are not many players of any nationality who feature on... [read full story]                    

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