Galina Voskoboeva played her first WTA match in almost two years this week in Acapulco 2016

There are two sides to every comeback. Long layoffs may leave a player rusty and out of rhythm, but they have an undeniably refreshing quality that can sometimes lead to stretches of top-level tennis.

Out for over 22 months rehabbing multiple stress fractures and a bruised bone in her foot, former World No.42 Galina Voskoboeva makes her WTA return at this week's abierto mexicano telcel and in search of the form that made her last comeback so successful.

"This is my second comeback, so in the beginning it's very difficult, but I didn't expect it to be any other way," she told WTA Insider from an ITF Challenger in Surprise, Arizona.

"The most difficult part of this comeback is not having a ranking; I'm playing small tournaments because I'm at zero, but it's very difficult to even enter tournaments, and you're always stressed because you don't know if you'll get in or not."