Hello everyone!

It's been a long time since I wrote my last blog. I'm sorry for such a delay. But there were too many things going on during this time. After my win in Malaysia I was on fire in Indian Wells, had some really tough matches and that's when my body broke down a bit. As probably everyone knows I got injured during this tournament, so I gave it another try in Miami, but it didn't work well, so I went back home afterwards. I had to pull out from a few tournaments including Fed Cup and felt really bad about that. Every injury is serious when you are not able to compete. That was the time to take a month off and do lots of recovery therapy. I can't say that I really enjoyed the time home, because when you are in the middle of the season and everyone is playing, it's pretty difficult to stay home without even training. But I tried to take some positive things out of it. I had a really busy schedule this year, so it's also for good to take some rest from tennis and then come back fresh and hungry to play. My first tournament to start meant to be Rome, so I went there a couple of days before to start hitting some balls. My first match didn't go so well, but I'm happy that I'm getting better and it's just a matter of some time to get back on track. I'm not 100% yet though, so I still need to be careful and I don't play much tennis at all now, because my main goal for now is to be healthy in Roland Garros.

I just came to Madrid today. I have nice memories from last year here, it's a nice tournament and I will try to enjoy it again :)

Talk to you soon !

Alisa

photo: "Be difFerent!"  by Giulia van Pelt (www.flickr.com)