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Emma Raducanu says she is enjoying working under her new coach Sebastian Sachs and is confident of making significant strides in the next six months.
The British No 1 looked odds-on to miss the Australian Open having suffered an ankle injury in Auckland less than a fortnight ago.
She recovered sufficiently to beat Tamara Korpatsch in the first round but fell to American teenager Coco Gauff 6-3 7-6 (7-4) on Wednesday.
Raducanu declined to say whether she had also picked up an abdominal problem during the match having been seen touching her stomach, but she will prioritise more physical work before returning to the match court with hope of making progress.
The former US Open champion began working with 30-year-old Sachs in December, but he comes with plenty of experience having guided Belinda Bencic to an Olympic gold medal last year and he has also worked with former world No 1 Victoria Azarenka and Germany's Julia Gorges.
"I just have to review the body right now," she said. "I've had some niggles in the past few months, and I just need to get that sorted, train, and then we'll see after that.
"I'm really buying into and trusting the work that I'm doing with (new coach) Sebastian (Sachs) and the rest of the team. So I'm feeling good and confident that, in six months' time, I know it's not going to be the finished product, but hopefully I would have made strides."