On January 11th, Bulgarian Teen Sesil Karatancheva was once again eligible by the ITF for competition . Wasting no time to get back on track, she entered a $25k ITF tournament in Arizona and won 3 matches (in a day!!) to qualify into the main draw. She won the tournament and entered another 25k tournament in La Quinta, California the following week, and once again won 3 matches to qualify for the tournament and eventually going onto win as well. After only 2 weeks back in tennis with a 16-0 record already , she has recieved legal pressure from the Bulgarian Sports Federation for not reporting to national duty for Bulgaria in their Fed Cup tie against Hungary . That would have been heroic of her to have played and won the tie for her nation but it is understandable that she needed to re gain rankings and earnings. 

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Despite an unconfirmed rumor that she will accept a wild card in Bogota this week, Sesil Karatacheva will bring a world ranking of 382 into Memphis as a Wild Card recipeint in the Qualifying draw next week .  It will be her first WTA event since her 2 year anti doping suspension expired .  She was named ITF player of the month in January for winning 2 out of 3 tournaments she competed in and only dropping 3 sets. A former French Open Quarter Finalist in 2005 at age 15, Karatancheva should continue to surge in the rankings and make headlines before the year is through . She is a rising star with endless potential . Perhaps the next comeback kid, just as tennis witnessed with Jennifer Capriati .

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