I haven’t hit a ball for about two months now. I was playing in a tournament in Portugal in early August when I injured my left foot.

At first I thought I’d only be out for around four weeks but it was diagnosed as a stress fracture of the navicular bone in my left foot, and when my physio, Alison Rose, saw it she told me I could forget about playing until 2009.

Apart from a recent family holiday in Spain, I’m now recovering at home in Sheffield. Life at the moment consists of visits to see Alison in Leeds, two gym sessions a day and a bit of Phoenix Nights on DVD thrown in for good measure to stop me going insane.

I was very disappointed and frustrated when I first got injured until the point where I was so bored sitting at home that I started going to the gym in the morning and afternoon! Before lunch I work on upper body and in the afternoon I maybe do some core work, stomach exercises or upper leg work.

Rehab is going well but it’s a bit of a waiting game to be honest. I have a sort of boot thing that I wear to protect the foot, but other than that there’s not a lot of treatment Alison can give me for a stress fracture.

It’s a weird injury in that it takes so long to heal. Every time you put your foot down there’s pressure going through the joint – that’s why it takes so long to get better. It’s tricky to tell how it’s doing – it hasn’t hurt for three or four weeks now, but I just have to keep waiting until I get the all-clear.

My friend Georgie Stoop (I speak to her a lot on the internet!) had the same injury a while ago and she and everyone else I talk to in tennis circles warns me not to try to come back too soon.

I speak to my coach Dave Sammel every few days – he’s still travelling on the tour with my good friend and fellow Monte Carlo Tennis Academy player Steffy Boffa. I also keep in touch with all my tennis mates and keep an eye on the results through the internet – probably more than I would when on tour actually.

I noticed Laura Robson made the semis at the $75K in Shrewsbury the other week which was a great effort. I wondered how she’d do in seniors after she won Junior Wimbledon in July. Obviously, she is very talented and she’s proved she can go out and beat some of the women as well.

There may be a chance I’ll get to do some training with British athletics star Jessica Ennis in the near future. Alison is also physio to her and Jess suffered the same injury as me just before the Olympics which ruled her out of going to Beijing. By coincidence, she’s also from Sheffield so Alison may put us in touch so we can hook up for some rehab training together which would be fun.

I’m trying not to put a date on when I’ll be back. I don’t want to say to myself, ‘Oh, I’ll be back by January,’ only for January to roll around and not be ready. If that happened I’d be really disappointed.

Whatever happens, I’ll let you know how it’s going…