It’ll be tough for Laura to win when she’s up against two Olympians, but I think winning Wimbledon Junior’s was such a big thing as well… it’s so hard to call. The winner will be announced at on Sunday, December 14.

A panel chaired by BBC Sport presenter John Inverdale met on Monday 10 November to decide on the shortlist of 10. They will meet again on 24 November to choose the top three from this list. These three will be invited to the live event, this year held in Liverpool Echo Arena on Sunday, 14 December at 19:00 GMT. The winner is selected by secret ballot

If Laura wins it won’t be the first time a tennis player has won the award - Andy Murray won it in 2004, and Greg Rusedski also won a Sports Personality of the Year award in 1997, Tim Henman was second that year.

Read more about the other nominees over at the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year page.

First of all, there are about 40 new/updated images of Laura in our Wimbledon 2008 gallery, as well as a couple of updated photos of her at the Champions Dinner.

Secondly, 22 new Laura Robson pictures have been added to the Shrewsbury gallery.

Finally, our gallery for the Fortis Championships in Luxembourg has had the majority of it’s images updated, and we’ve also found a collection of pictures of Laura while she was practicing for her games - those have of course been added too.

We aim to have the largest gallery of Laura Robson pictures available on the web, but of course we can’t have every single picture available due to copyright laws. You may also like to check out this collection of pictures of Laura competing in the International Women’s Open earlier this year - we can’t host the images here for copyright reasons

To bring you up to speed on this small tournament which received pretty much no coverage in the news, here’s how Laura got to the final…

Seeded fifth for the tournament, Robson made everything look easy once again as she beat 16-year-old Stephanie Cornish in straight sets in her first round match, then did the same to 23-year-old Matea Mezak in the second round, winning both 6-3 6-3.

Robson was pushed to 3 sets just once in the tournament - her third round opponent Laura-Ioana Andrei of Romania gave her a better fight in the quarter-finals with Robson eventually winning the tough match 6-7 (7-9) 6-4 7-5. Laura came back stronger from this to win her semi-final 6-3 6-3 against Tara Moore, before finally finishing off the tournament with the straight sets victory over Samantha Vickers.

Great job Laura!

Link: Sunderland image gallery

Laura won’t be leaving for home just yet though, she’ll be staying on to catch a glimpse of how the other players train and prepare for their matches, hopefully bringing home some useful tips. Let’s hope she can get back to her winning ways in her next tournament!

“I think she’s great, she has so much potential and she’s only 14 and hits the ball really, really hard”.

“She won Wimbledon juniors and has also played against some WTA players before and is obviously getting more experience. I think she’s definitely one to look for.

“I think she just needs to be determined and motivated to keep improving and not get satisfied with what she has, but I had a chance to meet her and she seems very professional for her age, very determined and a very nice girl, so I think she’s going the right way.”

The BBC also have a short video clip (only 21 seconds long!) of the press conference held after her loss yesterday. You can watch this and read the full article over at BBC Sport.

Laura Robson has been knocked out of the Fortis Championships in Luxembourg in her first round match against Iveta Benesova. Laura made an impressive start to the game and easily won the first set 6-1 after just 20 minutes. The Czech player who is over 10 years older than Laura and is over 500 places higher in the world rankings somehow managed to fight back and overcome her dismal start to win the second and third sets off Laura 6-2 6-3.

In the gallery above the court, a number of players came out to watch. Robson has certainly provoked a little interest among the other players.

Perhaps in the juniors, Robson would then have cruised to the win, with the opponent fading away. But that is not the way that things work on the main circuit. And Benesova, who reached the third round of this year’s French Open, improved her game to register a 1-6, 6-2, 6-3 win.

Towards the close, Robson let out a scream of anguish, but she restrained from throwing or smashing her racket.

Laura won’t be going home just yet though. She still has her first round doubles match to play, not only that, she’ll be staying to watch how the other players in the tournament train and prepare for their matches.

Links:
Fortis Championships image gallery
Telegraph.co.uk

Additionally, Laura is teaming up with Gisela Dulko of Argentina for the women’s doubles. They will play the #3 seeds Vera Dushevina of Russia and Mariya Koryttseva of Ukraine.

In terms of national rankings, Laura’s entry currently makes her the British number 13 (out of 29 players).

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