Laura Robson ends Kim Clijsters career in New York

Triple US Open champion Kim Clijsters’s career came to end on Wednesday when she slumped to a shock second-round defeat to British teenager Laura Robson.

Clijsters, the former world number one and four-time Grand Slam title winner, lost 7-6 (7/4), 7-6 (7/5) to the 18-year-old world number 89 who goes on to face China’s ninth seed Li Na for a place in the last 16.

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