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A documentary retracing the tortuous journey of Australian Jelena Dokic will soon be released in cinemas. In the trailer, we can see the former world No. 4 talking about the violence of her father, coach.
She burst onto the world at the age of 16, beating the world No. 1 at the time during the first round of Wimbledon in 1999. Enough to herald a very promising career. And even if she has never won a Grand Slam tournament, Jelena Dokic can boast of a very good career since she was world No. 4, also winning six titles on the circuit before retiring in 2014, at just 31 years old.
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If on the surface everything seemed to be going well for the Australian player, born in the former Yugaslavia in Osijek (now Croatia) to Serbian parents, the young woman lived under the influence of a violent father. Abuse that she spoke about in 2017 during the publication of her autobiography entitled Unbreakable (unbreakable, Editor’s note).
A book which has been adapted for a documentary which will be released on November 7 in cinemas in Australia. In the recently unveiled trailer, we see the player talk, in tears, about her exploit against the Swiss on the London pitch: “I knew that if I lost, the consequences would be catastrophic. I knew what was going to happen. There wasn’t an inch of my skin that wasn’t covered in bruises.”
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Jelena Dokic was also able to mention, already in the past, the violent behavior, both physically and psychologically, of her coaching father with insults that could go as far as death threats. The latter also recounted how he reacted in 2000, after his match lost in the semi-final of Wimbledon against the American Lindsay Davenport. Damir Dokic then told his daughter that she was “a disgrace” to her family and that she could not return to the hotel. “You need to go somewhere else and find somewhere else to sleep, stay at Wimbledon, and sleep somewhere there. Or somewhere else, I don’t care.”
Damir Jokic, “aggressive and drunk” during 90% of the interviews he was able to give according to his daughter, notably went to prison in 2009-2010 for having threatened to kill the Australian ambassador to Serbia. Jelena cut ties with him ten years ago.
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