Jelena Dokic

Jelena Dokic
2011 at the US Open
Nation:	Yugoslavia 2001–2003 Serbia and Montenegro 2003–2005 Australia 1998–2000, 2006–2014
Birthday:	April 12, 1983
Size:	175 cm
Weight:	60 kg
1st professional season:	1998
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 4,481,044
singles
Career record:	348: 221
Career title:	6 WTA , 8 ITF
Highest ranking:	4 (August 19, 2002)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	118: 100
Career title:	4 WTA, 0 ITF
Highest ranking:	10 (February 4, 2002)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Jelena Dokić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Јелена Докић ; born April 12, 1983 in Osijek , Yugoslavia ) is a former Australian tennis player of Serbian origin.

Career

Jelena Dokić, who played on the WTA Tour from 1998 , emigrated to Australia with her family in 1994 . Between 1994 and 2002 she competed for Australia, in 1999 she won the Hopman Cup together with Mark Philippoussis . Her greatest sporting success was her participation in the semi-finals at Wimbledon in 2000. The best place in the WTA world rankings reached Dokić on August 19, 2002 with rank 4. In May 2001 she was on the tour "Player of the Month".

In 2000 she took part in the Olympic Games in Sydney for Australia. She played for the bronze medal against Monica Seles and lost 1: 6 and 4: 6.

After a scandal during the Australian Open in 2001 , when Dokić and her father Damir accused the organizers of manipulating the draw, the family returned to Serbia and Dokić played again for their old homeland. This incident was not the last argument the father was involved in. Disputes with tournament organizers, coaches and officials of the WTA as well as private problems slowed his daughter's sporting success.

Dokic consequently separated from her father in November 2005 and went back to Australia. There she apologized for the previous incidents and assured that she wanted to play under the Australian flag again. In the same year, she played the qualification at a small tournament in Melbourne Park to receive a wildcard for the Australian Open, which she also succeeded.

At the WTA tournament in Auckland in January 2006, she lost her opening match against Julia Schruff , she had to cancel the planned appearance in Canberra due to injury. After her out in the first round in Melbourne against Virginie Razzano , she canceled several tournaments. In 2006 she took part in three other tournaments: In April she lost in qualifying for the Challenger tournament in Biarritz with 5-7, 5-7 against the little-known Italian Eleonora Punzo. At another Challenger tournament in Italy, she reached as a qualifier round two, in which she was subject to the Romanian Mădălina Gojnea. At Wimbledon she entered with a wildcard, but failed in the first round of qualification on Alexandra Stevenson, who had also slipped far in the world rankings .

In 2008 Dokić won the International Hessian Championships. On July 20, she defeated Michelle Gerards from the Netherlands 6-0, 6-0 in the final. She also won the title at the ITF tournaments in Florence and Caserta in May, which were also endowed with 25,000 US dollars. In addition, between May and July she made two semi-finals.

Jelena Dokic

At the Australian Open , Dokić reached the quarter-finals surprisingly in 2009 (again with a wildcard at the start) after victories over Tamira Paszek , Anna Tschakwetadze , Caroline Wozniacki and Alissa Kleibanowa . There she had to admit defeat to Dinara Safina , who was placed in 3rd position, 4: 6, 6: 4 and 4: 6.

On March 6, 2011, Dokić won another WTA tournament after almost nine years. In the final in Kuala Lumpur she defeated Lucie Šafářová , who failed to use two match points in the tie-break of the second set and a 3-1 lead in the third set, 2: 6, 7: 6 ⁹ , 6: 4.

After Dokić had to give up injured in the first round of the Family Circle Cup in 2012 , she did not play a match on the tour in 2012 and 2013. In May 2013, according to an interview, she trained for a comeback at smaller tournaments; However, she did not appear in any tournament. After undergoing wrist surgery, she announced in October 2013 that she was training under Todd Woodbridge to apply for a wildcard for the Australian Open in January 2014. In December she went to the corresponding elimination, but lost in round one against Jarmila Gajdošová . She actually received a wildcard for the doubles competition at the Australian Open, but she did not get past the first round alongside Storm Sanders . She has not competed on the women's tour since then.

In her autobiography, published in 2017, Dokic accused her father of using her as a vehicle to escape the poverty in which the family lived after emigrating to Australia and of regularly being physically and mentally abused by him.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	May 20, 2001	Rome	WTA Tier I	sand	Amélie Mauresmo	7: 6 3 , 6: 1
2.	September 23, 2001	Tokyo	WTA Tier II	Hard court	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	6: 4, 6: 2
3.	October 7, 2001	Moscow	WTA Tier I	Carpet (hall)	Jelena Dementjewa	6: 3, 6: 3
4th	April 7, 2002	Sarasota	WTA Tier IV	sand	Tatiana Panova	6: 2, 6: 2
5.	June 16, 2002	Birmingham	WTA Tier III	race	Anastassija Myskina	6: 2, 6: 3
6th	May 5, 2008	Florence	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Lucie Hradecká	6: 1, 6: 3
7th	May 12, 2008	Caserta	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Patricia Mayr	6: 3, 6: 1
8th.	July 14, 2008	Darmstadt	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Michelle Gerards	6-0, 6-0
9.	4th October 2009	Athens	ITF $ 100,000	Hard court	Eleni Daniilidou	6: 2, 6: 1
10.	November 1, 2009	Poitiers	ITF $ 100,000	Hard court (hall)	Sofia Arvidsson	6: 4, 6: 4
11.	July 18, 2010	Contrexéville	ITF $ 50,000	sand	Olivia Sanchez	4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 1
12.	August 1, 2010	Bucharest	ITF $ 75,000	sand	Zuzana Ondrášková	3: 6, 6: 1, 7: 6 3
13.	August 8, 2010	Vancouver	ITF $ 75,000	Hard court	Virginie Razzano	6: 1, 6: 4
14th	March 6, 2011	Kuala Lumpur	WTA International	Hard court	Lucie Šafářová	2: 6, 7: 6 9 , 6: 4

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	October 28, 2001	Linz	WTA Tier II	Hard court (hall)	Nadia Petrova	Els Callens Chanda Ruby	6: 1, 6: 4
2.	April 7, 2002	Sarasota	WTA Tier IV	sand	Jelena Lichowzewa	Els Callens Conchita Martínez	6: 7 5 , 6: 3, 6: 3
3.	August 11, 2002	los Angeles	WTA Tier II	Hard court	Kim Clijsters	Daniela Hantuchová Ai Sugiyama	6: 3, 6: 3
4th	October 27, 2002	Linz	WTA Tier II	Hard court (hall)	Nadia Petrova	Rika Fujiwara Ai Sugiyama	6: 3, 6: 2

ITF team competitions

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	January 9, 1999	Hopman Cup	Hard court	Mark Philippoussis	Åsa Carlsson Jonas Björkman	2: 1

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	Career
Australian Open	3	1	1	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	VF	1	2	2	VF
French Open	1	2	3	VF	2	1	-	-	-	-	2	1	1	-	VF
Wimbledon	VF	HF	AF	AF	3	1	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	-	HF
US Open	1	AF	AF	2	2	1	-	-	-	-	1	-	2	-	AF

Double

competition	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004-2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	Career
Australian Open	AF	AF	2	-	-	-	-	1	1	1	-	1	AF
French Open	-	AF	F.	-	AF	-	2	-	1	-	-	-	F.
Wimbledon	AF	AF	AF	-	2	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	AF
US Open	1	2	2	-	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	2

Web links

Commons : Jelena Dokić  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile Jelena Dokic (English)
• ITF profile of Jelena Dokić (English)
• Fed Cup Statistics for Jelena Dokic (English)
• Site of Jelena Dokic (English)
• Profile of Jelena Dokić on "tennis.com.au" (English)
• Doris Henkel: Back from Hell . In: the daily newspaper, January 21, 2009

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Battling Jelena Dokic counts the years wasted by abusive father The Australian , May 11, 2013
2. ↑ "Healthy Jelena Dokic to restart career" , theaustralian.com from October 31, 2013
3. ↑ ″ Jelena Dokic's comeback meets hurdle losing in Australian Open qualifying ″ , foxsports.com.au , December 10, 2013, accessed on December 14, 2013
4. ↑ «The better I played, the worse my father got» 11/14/2017