• Wimbledon, Day 11

Robson tumbles out of girls' singles

ESPN staff
July 2, 2010
Laura Robson's serve let her down badly © Getty Images
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Laura Robson crashed out of the girls' singles to Sachie Ishizu on the back of a woeful serving performance.

Robson had made excellent progress to the last four, but she could never find any rhythm on serve and slipped to a 7-5 7-6(5) defeat in an hour and 28 minutes.

The pattern for the match was set early, as Robson dropped her opening service game. Her groundstrokes were extremely solid and a crunching return of serve secured an immediate break back.

However, Robson could not shake off her serving troubles, she got just 49% of of first serves in, and Ishizu took the set on the back of three breaks of serve.

Robson appeared to spark into life in the second set as she claimed an immediate break, but Ishizu hit back immediately. The Japanese No. 10 seed broke again to lead 4-2, but Robson continued to hit well off the ground and a glorious forehand down the line put the match back on level terms.

The set went to a tiebreak and Robson claimed the first mini-break and led 5-4, but she failed to convert her chance and crashed to defeat when throwing a forehand into the net.

Oliver Golding's fine run in the boys' singles came to an end at the semi-final stage, as Ben Mitchell of Australia claimed a 6-2 6-2 win.

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