🗣️ "I think I'm always going to have the feeling that I could have done more, unfortunately." After a career plagued by injury troubles, Olympic silver medallist Laura Robson has retired. #BBCTennis
Former Olympic silver medallist and British Number One Laura Robson retires from tennis aged 28 after injury hell
WTAMonday, 16 May 2022 at 12:30
Laura Robson has officially announced her retirement from tennis at the age of 28 after dealing with injury hell in recent years and having not played since 2019.
Undergoing three hip surgeries, she had her first back in July returning to action in 2019 but struggled with pain and returned in December of that year for a second.
She resumed training in December last year with a comeback potentially in sight but was forced to return to the operating table in January 2022 before calling time on her career.
Also Robson becomes the latest former British No.1 to retire with Johanna Konta following the same route to end 2021 and is now set to become a mother for the first time.
"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."
'I think I'm always going to have the feeling that I could have done more, unfortunately. I feel like if I had just had another year or two of being healthy, I don't know what I could have achieved," she added.
'But I'm really proud of the Olympics, of playing Fed Cup - playing for your country in any way was always one of my favourite weeks of the year - and I think playing Wimbledon and the US Open the time that I did well, I will have those memories forever.'
A former British Number One, Robson won the Junior Wimbledon girls' title at just 14 years old before winning a silver medal alongside Andy Murray at the 2012 London Olympics.
Achieving a career high of 27th, she was highly touted as Britain's next female star after runs at the US Open and Wimbledon but the rest of her career from 2014 onwards was plagued with injuries.
A likely continued media career now awaits Robson who has worked on Wimbledon coverage and for BT Sport and Amazon Prime in the past so punditry and commentary duties likely now await.
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