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Laura Robson's hopes of breaking into the world's top-50 for the first time suffered a setback when she was knocked out of the China Open in round two.

The 18-year-old Briton was defeated 7-5 6-3 by Spain's Lourdes Dominguez Lino.

An evenly matched opening set went with serve until Dominguez Lino converted the first break point of the contest in the very last game.

Quick breaks saw the Spaniard take a 3-1 lead in the second and she wrapped up victory in just over 90 minutes.

Robson, who won Olympic mixed doubles silver with Andy Murray this summer, has risen from world number 131 to 60 in a year and became the first British woman to reach a WTA final since 1990 when she was a runner-up at the Guangzhou Open in September.

She also reached the fourth round of the US Open, before losing to defending champion Samantha Stosur.

Robson returns to action at next week's HP Open in Osaka, Japan.

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