Tennisthis.com

We got your tennis racquet reviews, string reviews, tournament recaps, player happenings, and much more right here!

  • Home
  • Tennis String Reviews
  • Tennis Racquet Reviews
  • Game Changer
  • Accessories
    • Pocket Radar for tennis review
    • Scoreband Watch review
    • String Advantage Pojie review
    • Zensah Compression Elbow Sleeve review
  • About
    • Links
  • Contact
You are here: Home / Pro Players / Laura Robson rounds off season in style

Laura Robson rounds off season in style

November 28, 2012 By G.O.A.T Leave a Comment

Laura Robson
Laura Robson

British youngster Laura Robson has rounded off a sensational season by winning the WTA’s newcomer of the year award. The 18-year old follows in the footsteps of the likes of Kim Clijsters, Venus and Serena Williams, Martina Hingis and Maria Sharapova in picking up the newcomer of the year award, in a year that has seen Laura Robson climb up the rankings from 131st to 53rd.
After being named the WTA newcomer of the year, Laura Robson admitted the award had made her even more determined to follow in the footsteps of those former winners and push on in 2013.

“It’s a huge honour to have won the award. I looked at the list of past winners and it’s certainly a very impressive line-up that includes many of my idols growing up,” added Robson.

“I hope that I can go on to achieve close to what many of the past winners have achieved in their careers.”

In a year of highlights for Robson, the pinnacle of 2012 came when she and Andy Murray clinched a mixed doubles silver medal at the Olympic Games in the summer, closely followed by reaching the fourth round in a US Open campaign that included eye-catching victories against Kim Clijsters and Li Na. The youngster also ended a 22 year wait for a British woman to reach a WTA final when shefinished runner-up to Su-Wei Hsieh in Guangzhou in September.

Robson’s form this season could well have played a part in fellow Briton Heather Watson’s ascendancy up the rankings. The 20-year old went one better than Robson by becoming the first British woman since Sara Gomer in 1988 to win a WTA tour title when she clinched victory at the Japan Open. Watson now sits four places ahead of Robson in the rankings, but both players will now be looking to firmly establish themselves in the world top-50 next year. You can see odds for both players for various 2013 tournaments alongside the always popular Unibet Premier League odds online.

The massive strides made by both Laura Robson and Heather Watson this year shows that British tennis won’t be solely relying on Murray to keep bringing home the bacon over the next few years. If Robson and Watson continue to improve as they have done over the past 12 months then there is nothing to stop British tennis soon having two women in the top-10 over the next five years.

  • Author
  • Recent Posts
G.O.A.T
Based in sunny Southern California, raised in Argentina & USA; lover of all things tennis, USRSA Master Racquet Technician (MRT), ATP/WTA Pro Level Stringer; reviewer of tennis strings, tennis racquets, and any interesting tennis gadgets I come across. Plays NTRP 4.5 singles and some doubles. Singled handed backhand with a wicked affection for cured meats and Asado.
Latest posts by G.O.A.T (see all)
  • 2021 French Open Wilson Racquets - April 13, 2021
  • Slinger Bag and Wilson Tennis Collaboration - March 2, 2021
  • Wilson Tennis and Romero Britto - February 22, 2021

Filed Under: Pro Players Tagged With: laura robson, wta

Follow TennisThis!

 Facebook Google+ Twitter Instagram YouTube RSS E-mail

Latest Tennis Racquet Reviews

List of ATP Player Tennis Racquets
List of WTA Player Tennis Racquets
Wilson Blade V7 16x19 review
Head Gravity MP review
TenXPro XCalibre 325g review
Wilson Clash Tour 100 review
Wilson Clash review
Prince Phantom 100p Pro review
Yonex VCORE Pro 97 310g review
TenX Pro Excalibur 303g review
Yonex VCORE Duel G 97 (310g) review
Wilson Burn 100S review
Head Graphene Prestige Rev Pro review
Babolat Pure Strike Tour review
Volkl V1 Pro review
Donnay Formula 100 review
Mantis Pro 295 review
2013 Babolat AeroPro Drive review
Dunlop Biomimetic F 3.0 Tour review
Head YouTek IG Extreme Pro 2.0 review
Mantis Tour 305 review
List of ATP & WTA Tennis Shoes

Latest Tennis String Reviews

List of ATP & WTA tennis strings
Babolat RPM Power 16 review
Toroline Absolute 17 review
Diadem Evolution 16 review
Luxilon Element 1.25mm review
Yonex Poly Tour Spin 16L review
Luxilon Smart 16L review
Tier One Firewire 17 review
Laserfibre JB Tour 17 reivew
Yonex Poly Tour Strike review
Laserfibre Native Tour 17 reivew
Weiss Cannon Fire Stroke 17 review
Weiss Cannon Ultra Cable 17 review
Diadem Solstice Power 17 review
Genesis True Grit 17 review
Victory Acelon Wildfire 16 (multi) review
Wilson RipSpin 16 White review
Babolat RPM Dual 17 review
Mantis Tri-Poly Spin 17 review
Acelon Seven 16L review
Solinco Tour Bite Soft 17 review
Solinco Tour Bite 19 review
Volkl Cyclone Tour 17 review
Clarke Poly Power Pro 17 review
Kirschbaum Pro Line X 17 review
Luxilon 4G review
Tier One Sports Tour Status 17 review

Search TennisThis.com

Recent posts

  • 2021 French Open Wilson Racquets
  • Slinger Bag and Wilson Tennis Collaboration
  • Wilson Tennis and Romero Britto
  • Lotto Mirage 300 II SPD Women’s Tennis Shoe Review
  • Wilson Clash & Blade Roland Garros Inspired Racquets
  • Wilson Ultra V3 Revealed
  • Wilson KAOS 3.0 Tennis Shoe Review
  • WTA Future Stars Tournament Use Wilson Triniti Ball
  • Wilson Triniti Tennis Ball Review
  • Blue Wilson ProStaff RF97

The vault

ATP Top 10 Rankings

1. Novak Djokovic
2. Rafael Nadal
3. Roger Federer
4. Dominic Thiem
5. Daniil Medvedev
6. Stefanos Tsitsipas
7. Alexander Zverev
8. Matteo Berretini
9. Gael Monfils
10. David Goffin

WTA Top 10 Rankings

1. Ashleigh Barty
2. Simona Halep
3. Karolina Pliskova
4. Bianca Andreescu
5. Sofia Kenin
6. Kiki Bertens
7. Elina Svitolina
8. Serena Williams
9. Belinda Bencic
10. Naomi Osaka

TennisThis.com Twitter Feed

Tweets by @tennisthis

Favorite Sites

  • ATP & WTA Tennis
  • Fuebuena.com.ar
  • Ladies Who Tennis Blog
  • On Top
  • Tennis Abides
  • TennisCom.Com

Niemann-Pick Children’s Fund

 Niemann-Pick Children's Fund

Copyright © 2025 · Tennis String Reviews · Tennis Racquet Reviews · Site Map