Wimbledon 2013: Laura Robson stuns Maria Kirilenko in straight-sets victory to advance to second round And Robson's prize is a second-round tie against Colombia's Mariana Duque-Marino, who had a surprise 6-4, 6-7. 7-5 win over Germany's Julia Goerges. For the first set and a half, Robson looked like the seed here. After a lone twitchy forehand on the opening point, she settled to her work with such intent that you would never have believed she was the same player who had capitulated so fecklessly to Caroline Wozniacki at last month's French Open. Kirilenko was perhaps restricted by some heavy strapping around her left knee. Court No 1 has been tough on knees to date, as both Rafael Nadal and Victoria Azarenka will attest. Still, even if she was lacking a step of pace, she found that the match was taken out of her hands by the sheer force of Robson's strikes. In the winner count, she was outgunned by 31 to a mere eight. Some players - think of Sam Stosur or Amelie Mauresmo - dislike the extra pressure that a home crowd brings. But Robson enjoys returning to Wimbledon, the place where she won the junior tournament on this same court. "For me it's the best place in the world to play," she said last week. And it just happens to be my home tournament, which is great. I use the gym there sometimes or go for tea. You can just pop in really. Still, when Robson pops in for tea, she is not watched by 11,500 people. And nor does she have to worry about her place in the international tea-drinking standings. Those tricksy "what-if" thoughts began to bother her yesterday when the score reached 4-1 in the second set. Now Robson's ball toss started to bob about like a dinghy in heavy seas, and the racket turned to lead in her hand. The last 20 minutes of the match were so agonising to watch that the crowd, previously whole-hearted in its support, started oohing and aahing at every error. "The nerves did start to creep in a little bit and you just lose the timing a tad," Robson said afterwards. I just had to refocus on doing the right things and keep trying to hit the big shots. But the disappointment of hitting a double-fault can get to you sometimes. You don't really need 9,000 people telling you. Those double faults did indeed start to creep in, but not with anything like the same regularity as we have been used to seeing from Robson this year. In Madrid last month, she joked that she had been averaging 19 per match, whereas there were only three on Tuesday, to set against eight aces. Finally, after letting one service game slip away, she managed to steady herself and planted a slightly hesitant forehand on the outside of the line to convert her first match point. It was a very Robson way to finish: walking up to the net with her palms turned upwards to indicate that she had no idea whether the ball was in or out. You cannot imagine a natural predator such as Lleyton Hewitt being so diffident. But then Robson hardly needs to bare her teeth on court. When she plays like she did on Tuesday, her racket will do enough snarling for both of them. Laura's big scalps The British No 1"s most impressive victories in the last 12 months (world ranking in brackets). Maria Kirilenko (10) Wimbledon first round 6-3, 6-4 Venus Williams (24) Rome Open 1st round 6-3, 6-2 Agnieszka Radwanska (4) Madrid Open 2nd round 6-3, 6-1 Petra Kvitova (8) Australian Open 2nd round 2-6, 6-3, 11-9 Li Na (8) US Open 3rd round 6-4, 6-7, 6-2 Kim Clijsters (23) US Open 2nd round 7-6, 7-6