Bulgaria's young tennis wonder Sesil Karatantcheva announced she is making huge plans for the beginning of next year when her two-year playing ban expires.

"All I want is to be healthy, the rest is up to me," Karatantcheva told the sports site gong.bg as she turned eighteen on August 8.

"Finally I am a grown up woman! I have been waiting this for so long! Now I will get my driving license!"

The tennis hopeful boasted she is sporting a huge new tattoo, needled into her back.

The former WTA 35-seed pledged to be back on the tennis court right after January 1, 2008 when she will be eligible to play again and show what she has learnt during the long months of intense training. The training sessions that she makes in the town of Pravets, close to Sofia, were not interrupted even on her birthday.

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) decided in January 2006 to suspend the young Bulgarian tennis star fore two year for the use of banned steroid nandrolone. Karatantcheva tested positive twice in 2005 - at the French Open and in Tokyo where she was playing a Fed Cup tie.

Karatantcheva, aged 15 at the time, protested innocent, arguing that the nandrolone was naturally produced in the course of an aborted pregnancy.

The player's storming career got stunted after the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld the two-year playing ban in the summer of last year, saying it is in effect as of January 1 2006.

Karatantcheva made her great breakthrough in 2004 by gaining the juniors' prize from Roland-Garros.

At the end of November 2005 she managed to rise up to the 35th place in the world ranking.

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