Thursday 18 June 2015 21:30, UK
Laura Robson will finally return from 17 months on the sidelines in the Wimbledon warm-up event at Eastbourne
The former British No 1 was planning to make her comeback from a wrist injury at last month's French Open, only for a hamstring injury to further delay her return.
However, the 21-year-old is over that problem now and has taken a wildcard entry into qualifying rounds of the WTA tournament at Eastbourne as she aims to put a miserable period behind her.
"Tournament bound. Is this real life?" Robson wrote on her Twitter account under a picture of her with a car and a bag of racquets.
Australia-born Robson, who needed surgery on her left wrist in April last year, has not played since a first round defeat at the Australian Open in January 2014.
Her decision to play at Eastbourne could persuade Wimbledon chiefs to give her a wildcard for the grass-court Grand Slam, which gets underway on June 29.
Robson, a former junior Wimbledon champion, reached a career-high 27th place in the world rankings before her injury troubles.
She had twice made it to the last 16 at Grand Slams, including at Wimbledon in 2013.
