Laura Robson in conversations with TNT Sports about surprise role Fronting Ashes in Australia

Laura Robson is in conversation with TNT Sports about a surprising role that contains their live reporting from the Ashes from Australia from Australia this winter.

The Junior Wimbledon champion and mixed Doubles Olympic silver medal winner has made a successful transition to broadcast since her premature retirement of tennis three years ago, working as an expert for both TNT and Sky Sports, but the tour from England to Australia would be her first major TV job outside.

TNT is supposed to have offered Robson a reporting role on the ground during the series of five games, with its most important comments and Punditry off-site in Europe. The 31-year-old was born in Melbourne from Australian parents before moving to England at the age of six.

Robson has combined tennisunditry with senior roles in the administration since he retired because of the wrist and hip injuries that disturb her during her career. After two years as a tournament director of the WTA 250 event in Nottingham, she was appointed the same position in the Queen’s Club this year and took the lead for the first ladies tournament at the London location in more than 50 years.

TNT is expected to use a combination of Robson’s color and report from Australia, the local comment feed and their own experts in the studio for the reporting of the series, the Third Ashes Tour in Secvolsion IT or his predecessor BT Sport has treated live.

Robson was used as a sky court reporter during the US Open of this month and was live before the final of last Sunday when the arrival of Donald Trump in Arthur Ashe Stadium led to angry from the crowd.

Alastair Cook is being drawn up to offer expert Punditry from the studio, because the former captain of England will not travel to Australia with the BBC test competition, with the TNT -Regulige Kate Mason expected to present. Although contracts still have to be signed, the negotiations are supposed to claim properly. TNT refused to comment.

After agreeing a one-year-old deal with cricket Australia TNT, the rights for all winter tours of England has, because the broadcaster had deals to cover both white-balances in New Zealand and Sri Lanka on both sides of the ashes.