"Sporting Goods. After working with several coaches, including the head of the Lawn Tennis Association Carl Maes, she chose coach Martijn Bok in 2007. Bok said later that although Robson ""had trouble staying emotionally under control"", he ""saw right away...a lot of potential in Laura."" Robson also began training at the National Tennis Centre, under the guidance of Bok, Maes, and the head of women's tennis at the centre, Nigel Sears, while taking school lessons at home. Robson's first tournament on the Junior ITF Circuit was in 2007. She went from the qualifying draw of the tournament to the quarterfinals,"
"for WTA player Laura Robson from United Kingdom. He was born in Split, and belonged to the sports club Atletski Sportski Klub based in Split. He was the Croatian 100 metres champion in 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2004. He also became the long jump champion in 1999, and 60 metres indoor champion in 2002 and 2004. His first major international event was the 2000 Olympic Games. He competed in the 100 metres event, but without progressing from the first round. He also competed with the Croatian team in the 4 x 100 metre relay, but was knocked out in the"
"at the 2012 US Open and the 2013 Wimbledon Championships. At the 2012 Guangzhou Women's Open, Robson became the first British woman since Jo Durie in 1990 to reach a WTA Tour final, where she lost to Hsieh Su-wei. She was named WTA Newcomer of the Year for 2012 and reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 27 the following year. In doubles, she won a silver medal in the mixed doubles at the 2012 London Olympics playing with Andy Murray, with whom she also reached the 2010 Hopman Cup final. She has a career-high doubles ranking of No."
"first set 6–1. In October 2013, it was announced that Miles Maclagan's coaching partnership with Laura had ended and that she would be taking a couple of weeks out and starting the search for a new coach. Robson started her 2014 season at the Hobart International, where she had to retire in her first round match against Yanina Wickmayer due to a left wrist injury. Her wrist continued to affect her at the Australian Open, where Kirsten Flipkens defeated her in straight sets. After taking three-months rest from the tour, Robson underwent surgery on her left wrist in April. The"
"in the national team training camp held from 14 to 18 May 2012 at the Australian Institute of Sport. She was part of the Australian team that won the bronze medal. Laura Hodges Laura Hodges (née Summerton) (born 13 December 1983) is an Australian female professional basketball player, having played in Australia's Women's National Basketball League (WNBL), Europe, and the WNBA. She currently plays for the Adelaide Lightning in the WNBL. She has been a member of Australia women's national basketball team, winning a pair of silver medals with the team at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 2008 Summer Olympics and"
"Laura Hodges Laura Hodges (née Summerton) (born 13 December 1983) is an Australian female professional basketball player, having played in Australia's Women's National Basketball League (WNBL), Europe, and the WNBA. She currently plays for the Adelaide Lightning in the WNBL. She has been a member of Australia women's national basketball team, winning a pair of silver medals with the team at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 2008 Summer Olympics and a bronze at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She won a gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and 2006 World Championships. Hodges was born on 13 December 1983 in Adelaide, South"
"Laura Deas Laura Deas ( ; born 19 August 1988) is a British sports woman, best known as a skeleton racer on the World Cup circuit, representing the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association. She won bronze at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Born in Wrexham, North Wales, she graduated at Howell's school, Denbigh. Deas played hockey, representing North Wales in competition, and participated in equestrian sports, from Pony Club tetrathlon and latterly eventing (internationally from 2006 to 2008), in which she was team captain for Wales. Deas was brought into skeleton in 2009 through UK Sport's ""Girls4Gold"""
"Representatives. In the general election of 2016, Linda Burney of the Australian Labor Party became the second Indigenous Australian, and the first Indigenous Australian woman, elected to the Australian House of Representatives. She was immediately appointed Shadow Minister for Human Services. In sport Evonne Goolagong Cawley became the world number-one ranked tennis player in 1971 and won 14 Grand Slam titles during her career. In 1973 Arthur Beetson became the first Indigenous Australian to captain his country in any sport when he first led the Australian National Rugby League team, the Kangaroos. In 1982, Mark Ella became Captain of the"
"California Open in Carlsbad being drawn against Ayumi Morita, whom she beat having come back from a set down in two hours and 40 minutes. Laura moved into the second round faced with the world No. 7 Petra Kvitová from Czech Republic but lost in straight sets putting an end to her Southern California Open. To start the Canadian Open in Toronto, Robson was due to play Yanina Wickmayer from Belgium on 5 August 2013 in her opening match, but had to pull out due to a wrist injury. The same injury also led to her pulling out of the"
"won their inaugural title in Spain. After snapping team USA's 28-game win streak at U17 level, Australia went on to take home Gold. Lara McSpadden Lara McSpadden (born 2 April 1999) is an Australian basketball player, who currently plays for the Sydney Uni Flames in the WNBL. McSpadden will begin her professional career, in her home state of New South Wales, with the Sydney Uni Flames for the 2016–17 season. There she will play under Cheryl Chambers and alongside the likes of Belinda Snell. McSpadden made her international debut at the 2015 FIBA Oceania Under-16 Championship for Women in New"
"No. 415 Jennifer Elie, but won the doubles title partnering Vania King. In March 2018, Robson teamed up with Hungarian Fanny Stollar to win the doubles at the ITF event in Yokohama. In July 2018, she underwent hip surgery. Robson plays left-handed, with a two-handed backhand. One of her strengths is her ""dominant"" serve. She has a strong game from the back of the court and is also noted for having an aggressive forehand return. However, she has been criticised for having ""poor lateral movement"", as well as an inconsistent second serve, resulting in a considerable number of double faults."
"Sport in Australia Sport is an important part of Australian culture dating back to the early colonial period. Cricket, Australian rules football, rugby league, rugby union, soccer and horse racing are among the earliest organised sports in Australia . Sport has shaped the Australian national identity through events such as the Ashes, the Melbourne Cup and the America's Cup . There are a number of professional sport leagues in Australia, including the Australian Football League (AFL) and AFL Women's (Australian rules football), National Rugby League (NRL) (rugby league), the Big Bash League (BBL) , Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) and"
"Redbacks for men and the SA Scorpions for women participate in national competitions. SA has produced outstanding Australian cricketers in both the men's and women's games including Victor Richardson, Terry Jenner, Ian Chappell, Greg Chappell, David Hookes, Shaun Tait, Lyn Fullston, Jill Kennare and Karen Rolton. Karen Rolton, a left-handed batsman and occasional left-arm medium-paced bowler, has scored the most runs for Australia in women's Test cricket and SA Scorpion's player Lauren Ebsary was part of the successful 2013 Australian Women's World Cup victory. South Australia's men have had thirteen Sheffield Shield victories with their last Shield success coming in"
"was an aboriginal basketball player who represented South Australia. Leonie Dickson and Bobbie Dillon, both Tasmanians, also represented their state on the national level. Women have been active in playing wheelchair basketball in Australia for several years. They first appeared on the Paralympic seen at the 1992 Summer Paralympics, despite women's wheelchair basketball being competed for at the Paralympics since 1968. Notable players include Liesl Tesch and Donna Ritchie. Women's basketball is nominally a professional sport in Australia. In 2009, the salaries for average players in the WNBL were not high enough to allow them to play basketball full-time: They"
"which also unofficially holds the title as the ""national sport"". The most popular sport in Australia is cricket, the most popular sport among Australian women is netball, while Australian rules football is the most popular sport in terms of spectatorship and television ratings. Australia has hosted two Summer Olympics: Melbourne 1956 and Sydney 2000. Australia has also hosted five editions of the Commonwealth Games (Sydney 1938, Perth 1962, Brisbane 1982, Melbourne 2006, and Gold Coast 2018). In 2006 Australia joined the Asian Football Confederation and qualified for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups as an Asian entrant. Australia (continent) The"
"won were the prestigious Cap Gemini and Sunday Times-Macallan. After his partnership with Forrester broke up, Robson played on a number of occasions with Zia Mahmood, with whom he won the Cap Gemini two more times. He has also partnered David Bakhshi, with whom he won the Gold Cup in 2002, and Alexander Allfrey, who was a teammate when he won the Gold Cup a second time in 2004. Robson has since had five further wins in 2007, 2009, 2012, 2013 and 2014. He has also played a large amount in the United States, partnering Rita Shugart. In 1998 he"
"round to Laura Robson. Clijsters was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame on 22 July 2017. Clijsters was born in the Flemish Region of Belgium. She is the daughter of Lei Clijsters, a former international footballer, and Els Vandecaetsbeek, a former national gymnastics champion. Lei Clijsters died of lung cancer on 4 January 2009. Clijsters says that she inherited footballer's legs from her father and a gymnast's flexibility from her mother. Kim's younger sister Elke finished 2002 as the ITF World Junior Doubles champion but retired in 2004 after back injuries. Clijsters started playing tennis at age five"
"Rudic Cricket Australian team: Michael Bevan Cycling Olympics: Michael Rogers Oenone Wood, Caroline Buchanan, Gracie Elvin, Michael Matthews, Tracey Gaudry, Mary Grigson, Chloe Hosking], Dan Ellis, Rebecca Henderson Paralympics: Michael Milton, Jane Armstrong, Anthony Biddle, Kial Stewart, Sue Powell Commonwealth Games: Michael Rogers, Margaret Hemsley, Mary Grigson, Alison Wright, Mathew Hayman, Oenone Wood, Dan Ellis, Chloe Hosking, Gracie Elvin, Nathan Haas, Vicki Whitelaw, Michael Matthews, Nathan Hart, Brandie O'Connor, Thomas Clarke (pilot), Paul Kennedy Others: Peter Rogers, Deane Rogers, Rebecca Wiasak Football Olympics: Peita-Claire Hepperlin, Amy Wilson, Sacha Wainwright, Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Lydia Williams Other: Julie Murray Olympics: Anna Flanagan, Glenn"
"the 1992 Women's World Team Squash Championships held in Vancouver, Canada. And her career ended shortly after that. Robyn Lambourne Robyn Lambourne (née Friday, born 24 July 1964, in Narrogin, Australia) was a successful female squash player brought up in Australia. In 1991, she was ranked as the number 2 player in the world, her highest career singles rankings. She became a Junior Squash world champion in the women's individual event defeating her Australian compatriot Helen Paradeiser in the finals at the 1983 World Junior Squash Championships. Robyn Lambourne also became the first Australian to win a Junior Squash World"
"Australian National Rugby Union Team, the Wallabies. In 2000, Aboriginal sprinter Cathy Freeman lit the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and went on to win the 400 metres at the Games. In 1984, a group of Pintupi people who were living a traditional hunter-gatherer desert-dwelling life were tracked down in the Gibson Desert in Western Australia and brought in to a settlement. They are believed to have been the last uncontacted tribe in Australia. Reconciliation between non-Indigenous and Indigenous Australians became a significant issue in Australian politics in the late 20th century."
"achieve this accolade. The Sports Hall of Fame citation reads: Lawson and Baker competed again at the 2017 World Masters Games in Auckland, as part of the New Zealand women's eight. Brenda Lawson Brenda Catherine Lawson (born 30 October 1967) is a New Zealand rower. She was twice world champion in women's double sculls with Philippa Baker, and they were both inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 2012. Lawson was born in 1967 in Nelson; her mother is Val Wilson. She received her education at Nayland College and lived in Nelson until age 17, when she"
"finishing 3rd in the 2010 ISAF Women's Match Race World Championship with Nicky Souter, Nina Curtis and Olivia Price. Laura competed in the Laser Radial for a season, finishing top Australian in all events and being crowned, Australian Laser Radial Champion 2010 before retiring to become a Laser coach. Quickly climbing the coaching ranks from club level instructing to coaching the Yachting NSW Youth Laser Team, NSWIS Laser Coach, Cook Island National Coach, Australian Sailing Team Laser Radial Coach and topped the ladder as a member of the Australian Olympic Team, Laser Radial Coach at the London 2012 Olympic Games."
"round Australian Open 11-9 in the deciding set, in a marathon match. At Madrid, Robson gained the first top four victory of her career, upsetting world No. 4 Agnieszka Radwańska in the second round in straight sets, losing just four games. She subsequently lost to former world No. 1 Ana Ivanovic in the following round, after having led 5–2 in the final set. At Wimbledon, she reached the fourth round as the home favorite, coming back from 1-6, 2-5 down to win her third round match. At the US Open, Laura Robson was seeded at a slam for the first"
"dropped back to seventh place; and in 2016–17, 1240 points was good enough for sixth place. Deas was named to her first Olympic team in 2018 after finishing the World Cup season standings in seventh place, ahead of fellow Team GB skeletoner and defending Olympic champion Lizzy Yarnold. She took the bronze medal behind winner Yarnold and silver medallist Jacqueline Lölling. Laura Deas Laura Deas ( ; born 19 August 1988) is a British sports woman, best known as a skeleton racer on the World Cup circuit, representing the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association. She won bronze at the 2018"
"GB player Alex Reynolds he has also been selected by Baseball/Softball UK for the Youth Sports Trust National Talent Camp for coaching/umpire. After her first season old Laura Simpson has tried for Softball Academy and has been accepted into High Performance Academy, and Youth Sports Trust National Talent Camp as a softball player. She has also been asked to represent GB in the Netherlands in January 2016 at an Indoor softball tournament and selected as eligible for trials for the GB women’s team to play at the world championships in Canada in July. Towcestrians Old Towcestrians Rugby Club was founded"
"1984, and the British media described her as the ""new darling"" of British tennis, and the ""Queen of Wimbledon"". After a brief period on the main tour, Robson returned to junior competition but was knocked out in the second round of a tournament in December. In the same month she played her final junior tournament of 2008, the Orange Bowl, where she had to retire in the third round with a stomach strain. At the end of the year, she was shortlisted for the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year, but lost out to Paralympic swimmer Eleanor Simmonds. After"
"Robyn Lambourne Robyn Lambourne (née Friday, born 24 July 1964, in Narrogin, Australia) was a successful female squash player brought up in Australia. In 1991, she was ranked as the number 2 player in the world, her highest career singles rankings. She became a Junior Squash world champion in the women's individual event defeating her Australian compatriot Helen Paradeiser in the finals at the 1983 World Junior Squash Championships. Robyn Lambourne also became the first Australian to win a Junior Squash World Championship title. Her greatest success came in 1992 when she was part of the winning Australian team during"
"rivals, the New Zealand All Blacks since 1931, and the Tri-Nations competition involving South Africa and New Zealand. Australia has produced a number of notable rugby players of national stature, including Sir Edward Dunlop, Mark Ella (one of the first indigenous Australians to captain a national side) and the prolific try scorer David Campese. In 1908, rugby league was established in Australia by former rugby union players and supporters as a breakaway professional code. The new code gained and has maintained a wider following in Australia than rugby union, which remained amateur until the 1990s. It has traditionally been seen"
"Lara McSpadden Lara McSpadden (born 2 April 1999) is an Australian basketball player, who currently plays for the Sydney Uni Flames in the WNBL. McSpadden will begin her professional career, in her home state of New South Wales, with the Sydney Uni Flames for the 2016–17 season. There she will play under Cheryl Chambers and alongside the likes of Belinda Snell. McSpadden made her international debut at the 2015 FIBA Oceania Under-16 Championship for Women in New Zealand with the U17 Sapphires, where she helped them qualify for the world championship the following year. At the world championship, the Sapphires"
"also popular and have at times become highly politicised, such as when many Australians, including the Wallabies, demonstrated against the racially selected South African teams of the 1970s. Notable Australian rugby union players include Sir Edward Dunlop, Mark Ella and David Campese. In 1908, rugby league was established in Australia, by former rugby union players and supporters as a breakaway professional code. The new code gained and has maintained a wider following in Australia than rugby union, which remained amateur until the 1990s. The sport has roots in the working class communities of Lancashire and Yorkshire in Northern England, translating"
"final to Alison Waters 11–6, 7–11, 8–11, 9–11). At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Massaro won a silver medal in the women's doubles (partnering Jenny Duncalf). She followed up four years later at the 2014 Commonwealth Games with two silver medals: silver in singles after finishing runner-up to Nicol David and another silver in doubles with Duncalf. Massaro won the British Open in 2013. She was the first English woman to do so in 22 years. Laura's sponsors include 305SQUASH for clothing, Head for rackets, Asics for shoes and Technifibre for strings. She is also sponsored by UK Fast, Proto-Col and"
"also identified the need to increase cultural awareness and break down barriers between races using sport as the conduit. Recently, the competition was renamed to honour the football legend Ron Barassi a player with Italian origins who is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest ever Aussie Rules identities as both player and coach. Ron Barassi is now also the patron of the organisation. Subsequent tournaments have been held in 2001, 2003. As well as Australian amateur teams from the Australian Capital Territory, Western Australia and the Northern Territory other countries (depending on availability) including New Zealand, South Africa, Samoa,"
"Kellie Gibson Kellie-Maree Gibson (born 9 June 1996) is an Australian rules footballer with the Fremantle Football Club in the AFL Women's competition. She was one of the Adelaide Football Club's two marquee players in the inaugural AFL Women's season. A multi-sport athlete, Gibson began her athletic career as a sprinter, and won a gold medal in rugby sevens at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. Gibson was selected to play in the first AFL-sanctioned women's exhibition match in 2013, when she was barely 17. Over the following years, she played women's AFL exhibition games for both the Western Bulldogs and"