I’VE LET MYSELF DOWN

Robson goes out in 66 minutes

LAURA ROBSON’S Wimbledon hopes were gone in just over an hour and she admitted: “I let myself down.”

Robson was the first Brit to fall at SW19 as she crashed out in straight sets against Beatriz Haddad Maia.

Robson was sent tumbling out 6-4 6-2 in just an hour and six minutes, making it her quickest ever Wimbledon exit.

The British No.4 admitted: “I didn’t feel like I played my best tennis at all.

“It wasn’t the way I’ve been playing the last few weeks even. So I do feel like I let myself down a bit.

“I just never really let myself get into the match. I was just a bit overwhelmed with nerves when I first got out there, then tried to play too perfect when really I didn’t need to go for so much.

“With the way that I’d been playing the last few weeks, there is no reason I couldn’t have won that match.” Robson dropped her serve in the opening game of the first round match

and never really recovered. She said: “If I had won that first game after having the two points at 40-15, then I might have relaxed a little bit.

“But just the way that the match went, you know, my feet were just not moving.

“It just kind of gets a hold of you. Once you try starting to overhit it, try to play too perfect, it’s tough to get out of that.”

Robson, the 2008 SW19 junior champion and one-time golden girl of British tennis, hit a career high of world No.27 in 2013 after reaching the fourth round here.

But she has tumbled down to No.188 now and needed a wildcard for this year’s Championships.

Robson, 23, still has the women’s doubles to play in this year but after that it will be back to the lower tier events to try to improve her ranking.

She said: “I’m trying to get my ranking up so that next year hopefully I won’t need a wild card, so I feel like I really deserve to be here.”