What now for Laura Robson?

Robson collected the girls' singles trophy on Saturday On Saturday, former junior Wimbledon champion Tracy Austin expressed her fear that Britain "tends to build people up too quickly". By Sunday morning, 14-year-old Laura Robson was on the front pages of almost every single newspaper, celebrating her triumph in the girls' singles at Wimbledon. The Mail on Sunday crowned her the "new Queen of Wimbledon". Venus Williams, despite joining a select group of legends by winning her fifth title, was almost an after-thought. Robson's run had captured the British public's imagination to such an extent that the girls' final was moved to Court One, which has a capacity of more than 11,000, and shown live on BBC1. As Austin said, it is a situation which would "never happen" in her home country where junior champions are two a penny.... [read full story]