Laura Robson looking to cause an upset at the French Open in Paris

Laura Robson remains convinced her tennis dreams are still achievable.

Ever since she won the Wimbledon junior title aged 14, great things have been expected of Robson, but eight years later she goes into the French Open as the lowest-ranked player in the draw.

Two years of wrist problems are hopefully behind her but repairing the damage to her position in the tennis standings will take a long time.

Robson is using her protected ranking of 58 to play in Paris but is currently rated the 329th-best player in the world - 302 places short of the career-best mark she achieved in 2013.

She has won only one WTA Tour match since 2013 - and that against a local wild card in Morocco - and has not beaten a top-100 player.

"You have to adjust your expectations," said Robson. "My coach is very positive and everyone around me is just very happy that I'm playing whereas I'm like: 'I'm still losing guys.'

"The big thing that my coach has been saying recently is: 'Think about where you were this time last year,' and I was barely playing and I wasn't sure that I was going to be able to play the grass and everything like that, so to be here with a decent amount of matches and tournaments behind me is a huge, huge difference.

"But I think there's no reason that I can't get back to where I was if not better if I put the work in and do the right things. I don't feel that I'm overly far away. It's just having that belief on the big points to play a certain way, to play aggressively but not just flying winners.

"I'm sure the more matches I play, the easier it will get, and hopefully that turns into better results."

Being free of pain is a major step forward. Robson initially returned last summer having had wrist surgery the previous spring but was forced to go under the knife again in the autumn.

Her latest comeback began in February and she has played 10 tournaments since, albeit only winning four matches.

Robson said: "I haven't had any doubts with my wrist since the start of the year and that was the last time I had pain so since then I haven't worried about it. I'm still doing rehab four times a week but I'm going to be doing that for the rest of my life.

"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."

The protected ranking has enabled Robson to play on the big stage but that runs out next month, meaning she will need a wild card to get into Wimbledon.

After that, barring a sensational grass-court season, she is likely to find herself slogging through the smaller tournaments she must have thought she had left behind as a teenager.

The 22-year-old, who will play 28th seed Andrea Petkovic in the first round in Paris on Tuesday, said: "It's fine. I've played all of them before.

"Obviously you're more excited to be at a slam but it has to be done. There's no short cut to getting your ranking back up."

Robson will hope things click in the same way they did for Johanna Konta, who, after coming into Roland Garros 12 months ago ranked 143rd, is now the 20th seed.

The British number one's meteoric rise has been well documented, and she has continued to build on her run to the semi-finals of the Australian Open.

One benefit to her new-found status has been a place in the main locker room.

Konta, who plays Germany's Julia Goerges on Tuesday, said: "I had to go into the locker rooms and I had to spend five minutes looking around them.

"I was like: 'I'm sorry guys, I haven't been here yet. I need to see where everything is before I choose my locker.' Because it was a big process. And I chose locker 11 because that was my highest junior ranking, so I thought I'd be sentimental."

Heather Watson and Naomi Broady make it four British players in the women's draw. Broady plays her first match against Coco Vandeweghe on Monday while Watson opens against another American, her doubles partner Nicole Gibbs, on Sunday.

Watson's main priority is getting the win she needs to guarantee qualification for the Rio Olympics.

"I loved the Olympics the first time, best experience ever for me," she said. "That's why I'm so desperate to play it again this time."