As you probably know I am injured at the moment with my shoulder, so I am at home doing rehab. I have had this injury on and off for four years. This time it got really bad and I just couldnt and didnt want to play anymore matches with pain. It took a while to know what it was but I have a great doctor and physio and they are doing an excellent job. I have seen big improvments in the last two weeks. I have looked at this injury different as I have on others before. It's the first time in my career that I am out for this long, but still I am positive and just trying to take out the positives from this injury, whereas before I always got angry at my injuries. I have learned that this attitude doesnt help me get better any quicker.

Challenges

The challenges that professional tennis players face are few and far between... No, no, wait... We are getting mixed up with the other blog we need to write for the national knitting magazine :-)

Yes, as we are sure many of you realise, tennis players, as a whole, encounter many more challengers than the knitter of this world, although we know a few grandma's may disagree!

When we are at home with friends, or meeting people on our travels, they often ask ' So, where are you going to next on your travels?' 'Sweden' (for example) we answer. 'Wow, you are so lucky, it's beautiful there, you have to go to the mountains, see the lakes and the museums!' It's true, Sweden is very beautiful, and it most likely does have stunning mountains and lakes, but unfortunately, one of the sacrifices you make as a tennis player is that you very rarely get the time to witness these incredible sites. All we get to see is the luxury (or lack of) of the hotels, airports and tennis courts.

I just got back from practice where the most bizarre thing happened. It was our 1st hit at this new place. We went for a late hit around 6pm because there were qualies matches going on in the afternoon so it would have been hard to have a whole court.

Segnini and I hit for 40min and then we started to play some points. It was just us two, Dave, Emily Webley-Smith who was doing some physical on the next court and some Indonesian guys who were cleaning the courts, in the club. It is a very modern indoor hall and the courts are really nice to play on.

Like I said Segnini and I had just started to play points in fact it was the 3rd point and all at once the lights went off, we were still in the rally and I am not kidding I couldn't see my own hand in front of me it was so dark I just saw one little light on the other court which was Emily's mobile phone so I tried to walk to my chair to get my phone out so i could see at least a little bit but the chair was further than I had expected it to be, so I held my racket like a walking stick and walked really slowly to find the chair and my bag. My only thought was if the light came back on I would really look ridiculous bent over my racket. Anyway it felt really bad having no idea where anything was so we were very happy to have our mobile phones and after 5min, when the lights didn't come back on we decided that maybe it was better to leave, so using our mobile phones like a torch we managed our way out...

What have I let myself in for…

I am currently in Florida for two weeks doing a training block with Jez Green and Anna Fitzpatrick, although Anna is recovering from a stress fracture in her foot.

It is my first real taste of one of Jez’s training blocks so I don’t really know what to expect, even though Anna and the other players have told me that it is obviously not the most pleasant thing to do.

In these two weeks I will try to keep you updated on how my body is coping with it and how much Jez is torturing me!

Today was my second day and yesterday I had a horrible session, which was a real struggle because the day before I had travelled to the US for ten hours.

Jez put me on the treadmill but after the first three minutes I had to stop and sprint to the toilet, I just felt so bad.

Somehow I managed to finish the exercise with one more break. I then did some upper body weight lifting and that was it for the first day.