Laura Robson Reaches Round 2 of the Australian Open for the First Time in her Career
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| Robson Reaches Round 2 in Melbourne |
Teenage British female tennis star, Laura Robson
successfully made it to the second round of the Australian Open earlier today
when she defeated Melanie Oudin of the USA.
The 18 year old impressed the crowds on Court 3 with 11 aces and almost
three times as many winning shots as her opponent to claim victory 6-2 6-3.
Robson played to her ranking, being 31 positions higher than
Oudin at WTA Rank 53, and quickly got four games under her belt. It took the British Number 2 just 35 minutes
to claim the first set. Robson was not
without fault and indeed made more errors than the American, 30 to 24, but
Robson made sure her winning shots counted and came away with victory after an
hour and a quarter.
Robson’s first round win adds to the British contingent
through to the second round including herself, Andy Murray and Heather Watson. Sadly, Jamie Baker who made it through the
qualifying stages was not able to progress from the first round.
Laura Robson will now be met with a tough challenge in the
second round in the form of Petra Kvitova the number 8 seed and former
Wimbledon title holder. Both Robson and
Kvitova are ‘lefties’, so it should be an interesting contest between these two
talents.
Although this is the first time that Robson has reached the
second round in Melbourne she will be able to draw on her experience from the
US Open in 2012 where she defeated a number of high profile players to reach
the quarter finals. Robson commented, “I’ll
go in with nothing to lose again. I seem to play pretty well when I do that. It’s going to be tough, two lefties playing
each other. I haven’t played a lefty in a while, so I’m going to have to try as
best I can.”
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