'I sat down and cried' - Britain's Laura Robson retires from WTA Tour and tennis after long injury battle

Britain's Laura Robson has announced her retirement from tennis aged 28 after a long battle with injury. Robson won the junior girls singles at Wimbledon aged just 14 in 2008, reached a high of 27 in the world and won an Olympic silver medal alongside Andy Murray at the London 2012 Olympics. Ad/> But she was beset by serious wrist and hip injuries with the latter — on which she had three operations — forcing her into her difficult decision.

US OpenBroady beats Robson in all-British affair in US Open first round30/08/2016 AT 21:42 After coming to her conclusion, Robson revealed that she «sat down and cried» together with the LTA's former chief medical officer Dr Jo Larkin and physiotherapist Rob Hill, who strove so hard to get her body right for top-level tennis. «I went through every possibility of rehab and of surgery,» Robson told BBC Sport. «I had another hip surgery and probably did the best rehab block of my life — I went to all the best specialists and had some incredible people that I was working with just to get me back on court — and then the second time I hit, I just knew.

»It feels weird to say out loud, but I'm done, I'm retired. «I've sort of known that for a while because of what I was told by the doctors last year, but I think it just took me so long to say it to myself, which is why it took me so long to say it officially. »[Acceptance] took a long, long time because it's the difficulty of having it taken away from you rather than deciding yourself, as I would absolutely love to be out there still.