Laura Robson and Coco Vandeweghe were knocked out of the Australian Open women’s doubles in the first round by Hao-Ching Chan and Katarina Srebotnik.

Briton Robson and American Vandeweghe lost 7-6 (7-3) 6-4 to the Taiwanese-Slovenian pair.

British pair Naomi Broady and Anna Smith also lost – 6-2 6-1 to Czechs Lucie Safarova and Barbora Strycova.

Robson, at 227 in the world, was not ranked high enough to enter qualifying for the singles at Melbourne Park.

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Robson on Vegas shooting, retirement thoughts and 2018 goal

Following her defeat, Robson spoke for the first time about being at a music festival in Las Vegas in October, when a mass shooting left 58 people dead.

“It was a crazy, crazy thing to happen and I got really, really lucky,” said Robson, who initially did not realise what was happening. “My friends got really, really lucky. I don’t really like to think about it.

“I thought it was something on the stage. My friend, one of the girls I was with, she is from North Carolina so she was the first one to be like, ‘hang on here, that is definitely bullets’.”

On the tennis court, the 23-year-old has reunited with Dutch coach Martijn Bok, who guided her to the Wimbledon junior title in 2008.

Robson was ranked in the world’s top 30 as a teenager, but fell down the rankings because of long-term wrist problems that required surgery.

Asked if retirement entered her mind while she struggled to improve her ranking last year, she told BBC Sport: “When you’re a couple of weeks into a trip by yourself in China, it definitely does enter your thoughts.

“When I started to feel that way I just had to change my mindset and change the people I had around me a little bit. I got my old coach back and we had some great weeks at the end of the year, training really hard, and he’s here with me now and I feel a lot better.”

Robson, who turns 24 on Sunday, added: “I actually feel good. I feel very happy on court for the first time in a long time.

“My goal for the end of the year is to be back in the top 100 but really, for me, I want to feel the best possible version of myself again on court.

“That’s something that’s just not been there the last few years.”

Second seed Caroline Wozniacki fought back from two match points down to beat world number 119 Jana Fett in the Australian Open second round.

The Dane, 27, won 3-6 6-2 7-5 in two hours and 31 minutes, having been 5-1 down in the final set.

After saving the match points on Fett’s serve, Wozniacki won six successive games to seal a place in the last 32.

“I am relieved to be through. I fought for every point and didn’t give up, and it was rewarded,” she told Eurosport.

“I am extremely happy to be through and to have another opportunity to be out here – it was definitely a crazy match today. It was experience that did it.”

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Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic, who beat 2017 finalist Venus Williams in round one, was knocked out by Thai qualifier Luksika Kumkhum.

The 24-year-old world number 125 won 6-1 6-3 in one and hour 18 minutes to reach the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time.

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Heather Watson’s Australian Open campaign ended with a first-round defeat by world number 54 Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan.

The Briton, 25, had a set point to level the match in a tie-break but went down 7-5 7-6 (8-6).

Watson, ranked 68th, has now lost her opening match on five of her seven appearances in Melbourne.

It means Johanna Konta and Kyle Edmund are the only British players left in the singles draws after round one.

Earlier on Tuesday, ninth seed Konta beat American Madison Brengle 6-3 6-1 to progress.

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‘I left it all out there’ – Watson

Watson said before the match that she expected a tough battle against a “fiery” opponent, and so it proved.

She had her chances over the course of a gruelling two hours 16 minutes, and was urged on by a large British contingent on court 13.

However, she would end the match with roughly double the amount of errors (51) and winners (35) than her opponent, and loose shots at the wrong time cost her.

Watson told BBC Radio 5 live she was “extremely disappointed”, adding: “I left it all out there.

“I didn’t play my best but I said from start to finish, even if I don’t win a game from here, I’m going to play the way I want to play. The right way.

“Then, in my mind, that’s the best I could have done.

“It’s not always going to go your way, and you’re not always going to play well, but at least I did everything in my power that I was supposed to do and prepared right.”

After recovering an early break to lead 5-4 in the first set, a poor service game at 5-5 ultimately lost her the set.

With tensions rising and both players taking out their frustrations on their racquets, Watson found her best form of the match as she powered 4-1 clear in the second.

However, the steadier Putintseva clawed back the deficit and, after Watson swung a backhand wide on set point in the tie-break, her opponent capitalised to seal the win.

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