The day after Andy Murray bowed out as the last British representative in the grown-up singles here, Laura Robson announced herself as the next budding talent upon whom a nation can shovel its inflated expectations. The 14-year-old, born in Australia but resident in London since the age of six, fought her way into the semi-finals of the girls' singles yesterday by coming from a break down in each set to beat Serbia's Bojana Jovanovski, 7-5, 6-4. Robson has not dropped a set here yet, and one of her scalps was the No 1 seed, Melanie Ouden, who beat her in a warm-up event final just last Saturday. Taking the stage in the main press conference room for only the second time, Robson – a feisty but well spoken youngster who plays saxophone in her rare spare time – said she was taking steps to mind her on-court language. "I'm...
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