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All signs point to Eugenie Bouchard's return from concussion in China next week

Stephanie Myles
Eugenie Bouchard of Canada waves to the crowd after defeating Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia in their women's singles third round match at the U.S. Open Championships tennis tournament in New York, September 4, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Segar (REUTERS)

(Update, Friday a.m.: Bouchard's name is in the Wuhan draw, to face No. 11 seed Belinda Bencic of Switzerland in the first round)

Monday morning, Canadian tennis star Genie Bouchard posted on Instagram that she was happy not to have to sit around in the dark any more.

Genie can turn the lights on now. (Instagram)
Genie can turn the lights on now. (Instagram)

Tuesday afternoon, she posted a pic of herself at "home", home being Florida.

Bouchard, who was recuperating from her concussion in Montreal, returned home to Miami this week. (Instagram)
Bouchard, who was recuperating from her concussion in Montreal, returned home to Miami this week. (Instagram)

Wednesday, she posted a pic of herself ... playing tennis.

The location was the Crandon Park Tennis Center on Key Biscayne, home to the Miami Open.

Unlike the previous week, when Bouchard withdrew from the WTA Tour event in Tokyo fairly early on, she was still officially on the entry list as of Friday morning in China for Wuhan, a Premier 5 (high level) tournament at which she reached the finals a year ago.

And all indications from sources in Wuhan are that she is on track to play.

We'll find out soon enough – either a Tweet from some airport, or her name in the official draw. Gretel will leave a few crumbs on the path.

Bouchard, who suffered a concussion on the night of Sept. 4 at the US Open, has been out since then. A return next week would mean slightly more than three weeks after the incident, which occurred in the women's locker room late Friday night, left her with a concussion and caused her to have to withdraw from the singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles events at the final Grand Slam of the season.

She was to have played Italy's Roberta Vinci in the fourth round Sunday; Vinci went on to defeat Serena Williams and reach the final.

Let's hope she is there. But most importantly, that she's not rushing anything and is fully fit to return to action and pick up her renaissance where she left off in New York. Bouchard won't be one of the top seeds at the $2 million event, so she won't get a first-round bye.

In the meantime, here's a video dug out of the archives that goes way back to when Bouchard was just 16, after a quarter-final victory at the Australian Open juniors in 2011. Simpler times.