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}} Laura Robson (born 21 January 1994) is a British tennis player. She debuted on the International Tennis Federation (ITF) junior tour in 2007, and a year later won the Wimbledon Junior Girls' Championship at the age of 14. As a junior, she also twice reached the final of the girls' singles tournament at the Australian Open, in 2009 and 2010. She won her first professional tournament in November 2008. Robson reached a career high singles ranking of world number 27 on 8 July 2013. She dropped out of the world rankings in early 2015 after a wrist injury picked up early in the 2014 season caused a prolonged absence from the WTA tour, but returned at 906 in July 2015, and is currently ranked at 741. She has a career high doubles ranking of number 82 and is currently ranked 566.〔 She won a silver medal in the mixed doubles at the 2012 London Olympics playing with Andy Murray, with whom she also reached the 2010 Hopman Cup final. Robson has appeared at least once in the main draw of every Grand Slam tournament. She was the first British woman since Samantha Smith at Wimbledon in 1998 to reach the fourth round of a major tournament, having done so at the 2012 US Open and the 2013 Wimbledon Championships. At the 2012 Guangzhou Women's Open, Robson became the first British woman since Jo Durie in 1990 to reach a WTA main-tour final. She was named WTA Newcomer of the Year for 2012. ==Early life and junior career== Robson was born on 21 January 1994 in Melbourne, Australia, the third child of Australian parents Andrew, an oil executive with Royal Dutch Shell, and Kathy Robson, a sports coach and former professional basketball player. Robson and her family moved from Melbourne to Singapore when she was 18 months old, and then to the United Kingdom when she was six. According to her parents, she began playing tennis "as soon as she could hold a tennis racquet", and after being encouraged by them, she entered a junior tennis academy at age seven. She signed with management company Octagon when she was 10, with Adidas at age 11, and also signed a racquet deal with Wilson Sporting Goods.〔 After working with several coaches, including the head of the Lawn Tennis Association Carl Maes, she chose coach Martijn Bok in 2007.〔 Bok said later that although Robson "had trouble staying emotionally under control", he "saw right away...a lot of potential in Laura."〔 Robson also began training at the National Tennis Centre,〔 under the guidance of Bok, Maes, and the head of women's tennis at the centre, Nigel Sears,〔 while taking school lessons at home.〔 Robson's first tournament on the junior ITF tour was in May 2007, where she went from the qualifying draw of the tournament to the quarterfinals. She reached the final of two other tournaments in 2007, and won her first tournament in October.〔 In the first half of 2008, Robson reached the finals of three tournaments, but was also eliminated before the third round in three straight tournaments.〔 Robson competed in her first junior grand slam at the Wimbledon girls' event, as an unseeded player.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Draws – Girls' Singles )〕 As the youngest player in the tournament, she beat first 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, and the British media described her as the "new darling" of British tennis, and the "Queen of Wimbledon". After a brief period on the main tour, Robson returned to junior competition but was knocked out in the second round of a tournament in December.〔 In the same month she played her final junior tournament of 2008, the Orange Bowl, where she had to retire in the third round with a stomach strain. At the end of the year, she was shortlisted for the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year, but lost out to Paralympic swimmer Eleanor Simmonds. After recovering from her injury, Robson entered the 2009 Australian Open junior tournament, where she was seeded fifth. In the semifinals she faced a replay of her Wimbledon final, against top seed Noppawan Lertcheewakarn,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Australian Open 2009 Draws – Girls' Singles )〕 whom she beat in straight sets to reach her second Grand Slam junior final. Facing third seed Ksenia Pervak from Russia, Robson was defeated in straight sets. She later attributed her loss to Pervak's greater consistency, and her coach Bok said that "everybody has to be patient".〔 After the tournament, Robson started to train with Gil Reyes, the former trainer of Andre Agassi.〔 She was also named the MCC Young Sportswoman of the Year. She claimed the top ranking of ITF junior tour in April, despite not playing for two months because of shin splints. At the 2009 French Open Robson was the top seed in the junior's competition, but was defeated in round two by Sandra Zaniewska. Robson was the defending champion at 2009 Wimbledon Championships, but she fell in the second round to Quirine Lemoine. Due to her focusing on her Senior career, Robson entered the 2009 US Open unseeded. In the first round, she beat Ons Jabeur of Tunisia. She then faced the 7th seed Lauren Embree of the United States and beat her in three sets. She went on to face the 12th seed, Tamaryn Hendler, who she defeated in straight sets. Robson then beat Lauren Davis in the quarterfinals. In her semifinal, she faced Yana Buchina of Russia. Due to rain delay, both quarter- and semifinals were played on the same day. Therefore, the semifinal followed the quarterfinal match. Despite starting strongly, Robson tired, losing the match in three sets. At the junior singles at the 2010 Australian Open, Robson was unseeded and defeated Belinda Woolcock, Yulia Putintseva, and Cristina Dinu to reach the quarterfinals. In the last eight she easily overcame American Ester Goldfeld to move through to her fourth Junior Grand Slam semi-final where she defeated Kristýna Plíšková of the Czech Republic. She was defeated by Kristýna's twin sister Karolína Plíšková in the final. In the 2010 Wimbledon junior singles she reached the semifinals, losing to Sachie Ishizu of Japan. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Laura Robson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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