Jelena Dokic confirms the death of the alienated father Damir Dokic

Jelena Dokic, a former semi -finalist No. 4 and Wimbledon, has confirmed that her alienated father Damir died at the age of 67.

The 42 -year -old Dokic, who told her father's physical and emotional abuse during her early life and his time to train her on the WTA tour, wrote on social media: “Despite everything and no matter how difficult, difficult, difficult and in the past 10 years it is not easy to lose a parent and a father that you are not raised.

“The loss of a alienated parent is associated with difficult and complicated grief.”

In her 2017 memoir “Unbreakable” and his documentary adaptation of 2024 “Unbreakable: The Jelena Dokic Story” Dokic wrote that her father had exposed her constant physical and emotional abuse. In the documentary, Dokic said: “There was no centimeter skin that was not injured. I am 17 and the most hated person (I) became the most hated.”

Dokic said she was afraid to lose a match. Once she said her father kicked her head until she lost consciousness. Damir admitted to having beaten his daughter in 2009 in an interview with the Serbian newspaper Vecernje Novosti, Vecernje Novosti. He claimed that it was “about the sake”.

Dokic, who had emigrated to Australia with her Serbian family at the age of 11, was a phenomenally talented teenager and, as a future world No. 1. 1999, she qualified for Wimbledon at the age of 16 and beat the world No. 1 Martina Hingis 6: 2, 6: 0 to the quarter -finals. The following year she reached Semis and represented Australia at the Olympic Games in Sydney 2000 and lost the bronze medal game against Monica Seles.

However, her career suffered from her father's actions and was heavily criticized in Australia after he had convinced her to change her nationality to Yugoslavia (later Serbia and Montenegro and now Serbia). Between 2001 and 2005. Dokic's ranking stormed between 2005 and 2008. Dokic has never been the same heights again and retired five years later.

During her career, her father's aggressive and sometimes illegal public behavior was a constant distraction. Damir made the phone of a reporter in Wimbledon in 2000 before being exiled from the WTA for six months after the misuse of the US Open. He was sentenced to 15 months in prison in 2009 after being sentenced to endanger the security of the Australian ambassador in Serbia, Claire Birgin.

Since Jelena Dokic has been withdrawn from tennis, he has become a public spokesman and tennis commentator and regularly conducts interviews on the square at the Australian Open. After the release of her documentary film, she said last November that she hadn't spoken to her father for more than 10 years.

“It is an end to a chapter and a life that I know,” wrote Dokic in her contribution and confirmed the death of her father.

“There are many contradictory and complex feelings and feelings for me. At the end of this chapter I focus on a good memory like this picture.”

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