Sofia Kenin is a Netflix episode waiting to happen. Of all the comeback stories at Qualifying this week, the American's might just be the most compelling.

Potentially worthy of her own, standalone episode in the next Break Point docu-series.

Maybe call it 'Gotta Get Back', as Kenin kept on urging herself last season, although that didn't prove to be too helpful as it only contributed to the pressure she was feeling, and her game was "a complete disaster" and her head "was out of it". 

Kenin, who dropped just five games for a 6-3, 6-2 victory in the opening round over fellow American Irina Falconi Hartman, has already touched the heights in tennis.

If 2020 was the year the world stopped, with the pandemic, it was also the season when she launched herself at great speed into the tennis equivalent of the global one per cent.

Kenin landed the Australian Open title at the age of 21 to become the youngest American Grand Slam singles champion since Serena Williams in 1999.

Her 2020 highlights reel also included reaching the final of Roland-Garros and climbing to world No.4. She was just where she wanted to be.

Now, because of injuries and a loss of form, she patently isn't. Ranked outside the world's top 100 and without an automatic place in the main draw of The Championships, she is reduced to playing Qualifying in an effort to return to the All England Club.

While she lost her opening match in Roland-Garros qualifying last month - which was particularly disappointing after beating world No.2 Aryna Sabalenka earlier in the clay court season in Rome - she has started well in London.

Qualifying is about the young and the ambitious, who are playing with a white-hot intensity that might just singe the Roehampton grass.

But it is also about those who have already experienced life at the very top of tennis, who have since spiralled down the rankings and who are now doing all they can to restore what they have lost.

Every year at Roehampton, and this summer is no different, you will find former top players who want their old tennis lives back. What you don't always see, and this is why Kenin's story is worth following, is a Grand Slam champion, someone who has achieved the ultimate in tennis. When you're that high, you're going to fall so much further than anyone else.

Two more wins and Kenin will be in the Wimbledon main draw. Not quite back, but getting there.