Heather Watson is currently out of action recovering from a quad strain. She had been due to be in the Prague Open this week.
Laura Robson is in a tournament in Morocco. Her first round match today is against Ghita Benhadi who is local and doesn't appear in the rankings.
Laura Robson won her first match in the main draw of a WTA tournament since 2013 as she beat Morocco's Ghita Benhadi at the Rabat Open.
Robson, 22, broke serve six times on her way to beating the 18-year-old wild card 6-1 6-1 on the clay.
The Briton's last WTA main draw win came in September 2013, before a wrist injury required surgery and put her out of action for 17 months.
Robson will play Hungarian fifth seed Timea Babos (ranked 40) in the second round.
The former British number one is currently ranked 426th and has lost WTA first-round matches in Indian Wells, Miami and Charleston this year.
She beat world number 117 Klara Koukalova in Stuttgart last week but then lost in the final round of qualifying.
This win will improve her ratings to somewhere in the 340/360 range.
Laura Robson's hopes of a sustained run at the Rabat Open ended with a heavy defeat by Hungarian fifth seed Timea Babos in the second round.
Robson, the former British number one, had break-point chances in the third game but could not convert them.
Babos then took charge, dropping just two more games in a 6-1 6-2 victory.
British number two Heather Watson failed to qualify for the Madrid Open as she lost to Mirjana Lucic-Baroni. Watson, ranked 19 places higher than the Croat at 56 in the world, led by a break in the first set but Lucic-Baroni came back to win 7-6 (7-4) 6-2.
Naomi Broady, the British number three, plays Puerto Rico's Monica Puig in the final round of qualifying.
Laura Robson will take on Victoria Azarenka in the main draw after using her protected ranking of 58 to enter. The 22-year-old missed 17 months with a wrist injury, and has won just one WTA main draw match since returning last summer.
British number one Johanna Konta will play France's Caroline Garcia in her opening match.
The weekend was not good for the British players at Madrid 
British number one Johanna Konta retired from the Madrid Open with an upper respiratory illness. The 24-year-old Australian Open semi-finalist was trailing 6-4 2-1 in her first-round match against Caroline Garcia of France, the world number 51.
Fit-again Briton Laura Robson suffered a 6-4 6-2 first-round defeat by fourth seed Victoria Azarenka of Belarus. Former British number one Robson missed 17 months with a wrist injury, and has won just one WTA main draw match since returning last summer. The 22-year-old, using her protected ranking of 58 to enter, saved five match points but lost in 84 minutes to the world number five. She lost a keenly contested opening set in 40 minutes against Azarenka, the two-time Australian Open champion, who is ranked fifth in the world after winning the titles in Indian Wells and Miami this year. But in the first meeting between the pair, Azarenka raced 4-0 ahead in the second after winning six games in succession and soon recorded her 25th victory in 26 matches this year.
Heather Watson could not capitalise on a lucky loser place as she lost 7-5 6-4 to Australia's Daria Gavrilova. Watson, 23, lost to Croatia's Mirjana Lucic-Baroni in qualifying on Saturday but went through as a lucky loser after illness forced out Yulia Putintseva. However, the Briton was beaten 7-5 6-4 by 22-year-old Gavrilova, the world number 39.
British number three Naomi Broady lost 3-6 6-3 6-3 to Monica Puig in the final round of qualifying on Saturday.
Britons Heather Watson and Naomi Broady are one match away from the main draw of the Italian Open after wins in qualifying.
Watson beat Nastassja Burnett 6-3 2-6 6-3 and Broady saw off Saisai Zheng 6-3 6-2, but Laura Robson lost 6-4 6-2 to Christina McHale.
Watson, 56th in the world rankings and British number two, will face Croatia's Ana Konjuh (ranked 78th) for a place in the main draw in Rome. Broady, ranked 80th, plays McHale (ranked 59th).
After yesterday's match Heather Watson admitted that the battle to qualify for a place at the Olympic Games in Rio is never far from her thoughts at the moment.
The top 56 players in the singles rankings are guaranteed qualification, with a few extra places likely to be available when the cut-off is made on 6 June.
"It was totally on my mind as we started that third set today," Watson told BBC Sport.
"It's just a big goal of mine and with it in the back of my mind it just motivates me and gives me that little bit extra.
"The Olympics is every four years, it's for your country. I can't even describe the atmosphere, it's unbelievable, and I just love being around the other athletes."
I think that if Heather Watson beats Barbora Strycova she should be in the top 56 regardless of what happens in the French Open. If she loses then she will need to win her first round match in the French Open (to repeat what she did last year).
Britain's Johanna Konta reached the Italian Open second round with a 6-1 6-2 win over Sweden's Johanna Larsson.
British number one Konta, who reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open this year, served eight aces on the way to knocking out the Swedish qualifier.
The 24-year-old will face Italy's Roberta Vinci in the next round.
I think it likely that Heather Watson will be selected for the Olympics even if she just missed getting into the top 56. That's because of her regular selection in the Fed Cup each year.
GB can enter 6 men and 6 women athletes, with a maximum of 4 entries in the individual events, and 2 pairs in the each of the doubles events.
Andy Murray and Johanna Konta are presumably assured of selection. AljaÅū Bedene is ineligible having previously represented Slovenia and his appeal failed. Naomi Broady won't be selected as she has no attendance at the Fed Cup. So a 4th selection could be Kyle Edmund.
Johanna Konta made it through with a 6-0 6-4 win over Roberta Vinci. The 24-year-old British number one will next play Lucie Safarova or Misaki Doi.
Konta restricted Italian Vinci to seven points as she won the first set in 23 minutes, before taking the break needed in the second to knock out the seventh seed.
"I definitely came out with good momentum and I really tried to capitalise on that, really take my game to her," said Konta.
"It was inevitable for her to raise her level, she's top 10 and a Grand Slam finalist for a reason.
"I was just really happy I was able to stay tough when I needed to and stick it out with a game plan, and being able to serve it out in the end is always a good feeling."
Heather Watson is playing in the Strasbourg International this coming week. I don't know if she is hoping to get sufficient WTA points to ensure Olympic qualification regardless of what happens in the French Open as the WTA ranking system is quite complex as to what extent the points will affect her ranking. Her first round opponent is Kateryna Bondarenko ranked 64.
Having now looked at how the ranking points system works I reckon that Heather Watson will need to win at least the first round at Strasbourg as a minimum, though preferably the first and the second rounds, otherwise she will have to win her first round in the French Open to ensure she is in the top 56. Of course that does depend as to how other players fare.
British number two Heather Watson, 23, lost 6-3 0-6 6-1 to Kateryna Bondarenko of Ukraine in the first round at the Internationaux de Strasbourg.
This defeat probably won't have much effect on her rankings but it does mean that she will need to win her first round match in the French Open next week to be in the top 56.
Heather Watson is capable of breaking into the world's top 30 by the end of 2016, according to former Great Britain Fed Cup captain Judy Murray.
Guernsey-born Watson, 24, is ranked 54 before next week's French Open, where she has progressed to the second round in four of the past five years.
"I set her a target of top 30 by the end of the year," said Murray, who coached Watson at the Australian Open.
"I'm absolutely convinced that if she works hard she will make that."
Laura Robson has to readjust French Open expectations as she puts injuries behind her
Once apparently on track to break into the top 10, Laura Robson returns to the French Open this year as the lowest-ranked player in the draw. But her coach Mauricio Hadad has convinced her to look at the positives: 12 months ago, she wasnât even fit enough to play here.
Robson has missed the best part of two years with chronic wrist injuries, and will probably have to go back to playing second-tier $25,000 and $50,000 tournaments when the grass-court season finishes. For the moment, though, she is trying to land an upset against her first-round opponent, 28th seed Andrea Petkovic.
âYou have to adjust your expectations, I think,â said Robson, who now stands at Noâ 329 in the world. âLike my coach is very positive and everyone around me is just very happy that Iâm just playing. Whereas Iâm like, âIâm still losing, guys.â
âThe big thing my coach has been saying recently is âThink about where you were this time last year.â I was barely playing. So to be here with a decent amount of matches and tournaments behind me is a huge, huge difference. I think thereâs no reason that I canât get back to where I was, if not better, if I put the work in and do the right things.â
Robsonâs comeback began with a 6-0, 6-1 defeat at Eastbourne in June last year, and has since stuttered its way through numerous setbacks and hold-ups. She has played 25 matches and won just seven of them, none against a top 100 player. But the key point, she says, is that she has had no pain in her wrists since the end of 2015
âI was so excited when I was able to get back on court last year,â she said. âBut then there was ongoing pain so it was a really long process with a lot of doctors and way more cortisone than anyone should have. It was a struggle but I think it has made me a more positive person in the long run and Iâm just happy to be here.
âEven at the US Open last year I wasnât hitting through it like I did before. Now, though, I donât feel that Iâm overly far away. I had opportunities against Vika [Victoria Azarenka, who beat her 6-4, 6-2 in Madrid at the start of the month]. And the same in every match I played, especially in Miami against [Kirsten] Flipkens, set points and everything.â
Robson has always been a big-match player by temperament, and the smaller events have clearly been a struggle for her. She has used her protected ranking â which runs out after Eastbourne â to compete in three of the past four grand slams. But Martina Navratilova, the BT Sport commentator and pundit, feels that she might have been wiser to spend more time slumming it on the fringes of the tour.
âI thought they [Robsonâs team] pulled the trigger too soon,â said Navratilova. âYou donât want to miss out on Wimbledon, I understand that. But you are not going to gain anything by losing first or second round, either. How well do you want to compete when you come back? Whatever ranking she was when she got injured, she is not playing up to that ranking now, she is not at that level.
âShe didnât look that fit to me, quite frankly, not that toned,â Navratilova added. âShe should have been in better shape since the injury was to her wrist, she could still do good roadwork and get in the best shape of her life. What was holding her back was her quickness and being a taller player it takes more effort to move, so you have to work on that fast-twitch stuff. The women hit the ball too hard, she needs to get quicker if she wants to compete. I would concentrate on that if I were her and get more matches under my belt, at whatever level.â
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The next few days will see if Martina Navatilova was right about Laura Robson on not. I think Laura Robson would have been better to go for the qualifying rounds for the French Open rather than directly into the main draw.
Heather Watson 's match against Nicole Gibbs is this afternoon, she's the only British woman in action today. The outcome of the match is likely to be the decider as to whether she qualifies for the Olympics by being in the top 56. Win, probably yes - lose, probably outside the top 56. It's that close. I think even if she were to lose she will still be selected but she obviously will be intending to win.
ITV commentators saying that if Heather Watson loses the match today she won't be going to Rio. I don't think they are correct. In the Olympics in the singles there are 56 entrants plus 8 wildcards. The top ranked 56 are automatically eligible. ITV would only be correct if all top 56 ranked players were allowed to be in the Olympics. For a start the number of players per country is restricted to 4 in the women's singles and similarly for the men. If more than 4 players from a country in the top 56, the other players could not be selected. Another restriction is that the players need to have be involved with the Davis Cup or the Fed Cup.
This Wilki article on players qualification status at this time (the rankings will change once the French Open is over),
The article shows that 8 of the top 56 ranked players at this time are not eligible. The chances of the top 56 after the French Open all being eligible is remote,
So I think ITV is wrong. Also, although Johanna Konta has doubles experience, so does Heather Watson and she and Andy Murray have played together in the mixed doubles at the Hopton Cup.
Of course this could all change if Laura Robson were to do really well at the French Open.
Britain's number two Heather Watson fought back against American Nicole Gibbs at the French Open before play was suspended because of rain.
But Gibbs had the upper hand and was serving at 7-5 2-6 2-1 when the players were called off on Sunday evening.
Watson dropped her serve twice as she went down in the first set, but bounced back after the first rain delay.
The 24-year-old comfortably took the second set but her serve was broken early in the decider.
Relief for Heather Watson.
Britain's Heather Watson beat Nicole Gibbs 5-7 6-2 6-2 in her rain-delayed match to book her place in the second round of the French Open in Paris.
Gibbs was serving at 2-1 up in the third set when the players were called off on Sunday because of heavy rain.
Following a further delay on Monday, Watson twice broke the American's serve as she won five games in a row to seal victory and her place at the Olympics.
Qualifying for Rio has been at the forefront of Watson's mind all season, with the British number two describing the London Games as the best experience of her career.
She arrived at Roland Garros with points to defend having reached the second round last year and a first-round loss would have left the world number 54 vulnerable.
The cut-off comes immediately after the French Open, with the 56 top-ranked eligible players qualifying. Given only four players from any one country can compete, a ranking in the low 60s will be good enough.
Britain's Johanna Konta and Laura Robson went out of the French Open first round without winning a set.
Konta, the British number one and 20th seed, was outclassed 6-2 6-3 in 64 minutes by Germany's Julia Goerges.
Robson, who has been beset by injuries over the past two years and fallen to 329 in the world rankings, lost 6-2 6-2 to German 28th seed Andrea Petkovic.
I see that Heather Watson is ranked 56 as at the start of the French Open. The women who are currently ranked 51 (Sabine Lisicki) and 55 (Margerita Gasparyran) have lost their first round matches and will now drop below Heather in the rankings. However Kiki Bertens (58) and Johanna Larssen (62) who lost in the first round last year have won their first round matches this time and adjusting for rhe points so far won do move ahead of Heather Watson.
Yulia Putintseva (60) is one to look for as if she gets further than Heather Watson she would go above her in the rankings. There are other players who could jeopardise Heather's rankings but she looks to be the most likely threat.
Odd that Lisicki was never able to build upon her Wimbledon performance (finalist) of 2011.
They hinted on 5Live earlier that Laura Robson will soon be disappearing from the WTA radar as her protected ranking expires.
Heather Watson lost 6-1 6-3 to 13th seed Svetlana Kuznetsova as Britain's interest in the French Open women's singles ended in the second round.
Watson's serve was broken four times as the world number 56 lost the first set in 30 minutes to the 2009 champion.
Watson, 24, who has not made the third round in Paris in six attempts, tested the Russian in a closer second set.
Although it looks probable that Yulia Putintseva will win her second round match (currently she' s serving for the match with a 5-2 advantage) which means that she'll go ahead of Heather Watson in the rankings, critically Mirjana Lucic-Baroni has been beaten so will drop below Heather in the rankings.
So at this stage it looks as if Heather will retain her ranking of 56 but it's very close and that could still change.
El Loro posted:I think Laura Robson is likely to still go for Wimbledon but will have to go through the qualifying rounds as her protected ranking will have expired before then. She's only 22 so there's plenty of time left for her to get back into the top.
I'd forgotten she's still so young. Yes, hopefully El Loro? 
Roger the Alien posted:El Loro posted:I think Laura Robson is likely to still go for Wimbledon but will have to go through the qualifying rounds as her protected ranking will have expired before then. She's only 22 so there's plenty of time left for her to get back into the top.
I'd forgotten she's still so young. Yes, hopefully El Loro?
I certainly hope so
Looking at the rankings and the results so far at the French Open I think that Heather Watson will remain at 56 so qualifies by right for the Olympics.
Although Kiki Bertens, Yulia Putintseva and Johanna Larsson jump ahead of Heather, Sabine Lisicki, Mirjana Lucic-Baroni and Margarita Gasparyan fall below her.
Alize Cornet would also go below Heather unless she beats Venus Williams today. That would mean Heather would move to 55.
Heather's ranking would go down if either Shelby Rogers or Tsvetana Pironkova who are into the 4th round were to get to the semi-finals.
Will Livinnia and Paloma Wood become the Australian equivalent of the William sisters? We'll have to wait for many years before we know.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/36367629
Danka Kovinic has decided to enter the lower grade ITF tournament in Marseilles this week. There is no doubt that she has done this in order to get sufficiient points to get into the top 56. She is the number 1 seed for this tournament and needs to win the tournament to get ahead of Heather Watson. Considering that the 2nd seed is 21 places below Kovinic, this is a realistic possibility.
Although Tsvetana Pironkova is struggling in her match against Agnieszka Radwanska, Shelby Rogers in through to the quarter finals. If she beats the 4th seed Garbine Muguruza then Heather Watson would not make the top 56 in the rankings.
