Jelena Dokic is an Australian tennis commentator, studio analyst and former professional player.
126 Facts About Jelena Dokic
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Jelena Dokic's highest ranking as a tennis player was world No 4, in August 2002.
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Jelena Dokic won WTA Tour events on all surfaces during her career.
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Jelena Dokic went on to reach the quarterfinals of that competition, only her second Grand Slam championship.
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Jelena Dokic rapidly ascended through the world rankings after her Wimbledon breakthrough, but her time in the world elite was beset by off-court struggles.
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Jelena Dokic switched back to Australia in 2005, and accused her father of physical and mental abuse in her 2017 autobiography Unbreakable.
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Jelena Dokic made a serious return to tennis in 2008 and finished 2009 back in the world top 100, but thereafter struggled badly with form and injuries, and ceased playing professionally in 2014.
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Jelena Dokic was born in Osijek, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia to a Serb father Damir Dokic and a Croat mother, Ljiljana.
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Jelena Dokic has a younger brother, Savo, eight years her junior.
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Jelena Dokic's family lived in Osijek until June 1991, when, due to the political instability and wars, they settled in Sombor, Serbia, for a short time before emigrating to Australia in 1994 when Dokic was 11 years of age.
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Jelena Dokic has spoken of growing up in poverty, and at one time they lived in a shed infested with rats.
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Jelena Dokic was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.
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Jelena Dokic started the year by teaming up with Mark Philippoussis to win the Hopman Cup title.
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Jelena Dokic then received a wildcard into the Australian Open, losing to world No 1 Martina Hingis in two sets.
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Jelena Dokic defeated ninth-seeded Mary Pierce in straight sets before losing in three to Alexandra Stevenson in the quarterfinals.
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Jelena Dokic reached her first WTA doubles final with Amanda Coetzer in Tokyo.
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Jelena Dokic was defeated in the first round of the 2000 Australian Open by Rita Kuti-Kis of Hungary.
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However, Jelena Dokic lost in the second round at the French Open.
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Jelena Dokic reached the fourth round of the US Open, where she lost to Serena Williams after holding two set points in the first-set tiebreaker.
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Jelena Dokic won her second title in doubles in Linz, with Nadia Petrova, and qualified for the WTA Tour Championships in singles, reaching the quarterfinals.
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Jelena Dokic reached the final of the Open Gaz de France, where she was forced to hand a walkover to Venus Williams, after her first victory over Monica Seles a day earlier, due to a right thigh strain suffered in her win.
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At the Hamburg event, Jelena Dokic collected a straight-set win over Justine Henin, before having to retire in the semifinals.
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Jelena Dokic was unable to defend her Italian Open title, losing to 11th-seeded Anastasia Myskina in the third round.
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Jelena Dokic then won her fifth career singles title in Birmingham, defeating Myskina in the final in two sets.
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Jelena Dokic then lost in the fourth round at Wimbledon to Daniela Hantuchova.
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Jelena Dokic reached the semifinals of Los Angeles, losing to Chanda Rubin, and Montreal, notching a victory over Martina Hingis before retiring hurt against Capriati.
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Jelena Dokic then reached the semifinals in Salvador, Bahia and Tokyo.
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Jelena Dokic finished the year ranked world No 9 in singles.
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In doubles, Jelena Dokic won titles in Sarasota, Los Angeles, and Linz, as well as reaching the finals of Moscow and Zurich.
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In 2003, Jelena Dokic hired Borna Bikic from Croatia to replace her father as her trainer whom she accused of "wrecking her career", after several outbursts and volatile behavior at tennis tournaments.
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Jelena Dokic played 30 events, reaching one final, one semifinal, and seven quarterfinals.
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Jelena Dokic played in the 2004 Fed Cup for the Serbia and Montenegro team and achieved two wins.
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In mid-2004, Jelena Dokic returned to her family in Serbia to attempt a reconciliation.
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Jelena Dokic then earned a wildcard berth at the Australian Open after winning the wildcard playoff.
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Jelena Dokic held a match point on her opponent Virginie Razzano's serve and hit a forehand winner that caught the line, only to have the umpire rule the ball out.
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Jelena Dokic went on to lose the match, hitting over 70 unforced errors.
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Later that year, Jelena Dokic played in the qualifying tournament for Wimbledon, where she received a wildcard but suffered a three-set loss to Alexandra Stevenson.
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In November 2006, Jelena Dokic denied reports from her father that she had been kidnapped by her boyfriend, Tin Bikic.
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Jelena Dokic was due to sign a contract to be in the academy for a year, but instead returned to Borna Bikic, her coach.
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Jelena Dokic said she was not satisfied with the contract Pilic's Academy offered her.
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Jelena Dokic said she had not felt "within herself" to play during 2007 but was now ready to put in the hard work necessary to get back to the top.
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Jelena Dokic cited Mary Pierce, Jennifer Capriati, and Andre Agassi as inspirational figures for her goal of reaching the highest echelons of tennis once more.
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Jelena Dokic received a wildcard for the qualifications of the 2008 Hobart International and won four matches to reach the second round of the main draw, where she retired in her match against Flavia Pennetta due to an ankle injury.
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Jelena Dokic received a qualifying wildcard into the Australian Open, where she lost in the second round.
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Jelena Dokic then entered the following week in a $25k tournament in Florence, Italy, and won, saving two match points against Mirjana Lucic in the quarterfinals and defeating seventh-seeded Lucie Hradecka in the final.
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Jelena Dokic was then offered a wildcard to the Internationaux de Strasbourg, where she lost in the first round to Swiss Timea Bacsinszky.
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Jelena Dokic was knocked out of the Brisbane International by Amelie Mauresmo in straight sets in the first round.
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Jelena Dokic then received a qualification wildcard into the Hobart International but withdrew before her first match because of an Achilles tendon injury.
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Jelena Dokic won her first round match at the Australian Open against Tamira Paszek of Austria.
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Jelena Dokic's run ended when she was defeated by Dinara Safina in a three-sets quarterfinal.
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Jelena Dokic received a wildcard for the main draw of another Premier Mandatory event, the Miami Open in Key Biscayne.
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Jelena Dokic defeated Romanian Edina Gallovits in the first round before losing to 13th-seeded Wozniacki in the second round.
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Jelena Dokic withdrew from the MPS Group Championships in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida and the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, citing fatigue.
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Jelena Dokic then won the second singles rubber of Australia's World Group II Fed Cup quarterfinal tie against Switzerland in Mildura, Australia.
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Jelena Dokic then participated on the Warsaw Open, which was the last WTA Premier event before the French Open but lost in the first round to qualifier Ioana Raluca Olaru.
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Jelena Dokic played doubles, partnering with Alisa Kleybanova, they defeated Petra Cetkovska and Carla Suarez Navarro in the first round.
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Jelena Dokic's injury forced her to miss Wimbledon warming up tournaments, but Dokic still appeared at Wimbledon.
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Jelena Dokic was then diagnosed as suffering from glandular fever and had to withdraw from the Swedish Open in Bastad.
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Jelena Dokic was ordered to rest for another fortnight and planned to get back on court on hard-court tournaments leading up to US Open.
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Jelena Dokic competed at the US Open but lost to Kirsten Flipkens in the first round.
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Jelena Dokic then played at another $100k tournament at Sofia but again lost in the second round to Andrea Hlavackova in straight sets.
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Jelena Dokic then travelled to France to play ITF level tournaments, started with Joue-les-Tours, a $50k event where she was the top seed.
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Jelena Dokic then played at Poitiers, a $100k event, as the fourth seed.
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Jelena Dokic made it to her third consecutive final and faced Sofia Arvidsson again.
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Jelena Dokic finished 2009 ranked world No 56, her best showing since 2004.
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Jelena Dokic opened the season at the Brisbane International, where she lost to former world No 1, Ana Ivanovic, in three sets in the first round.
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Jelena Dokic was seen breaking down on court as well as crying after this match.
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Jelena Dokic then travelled to Melbourne to compete at the Australian Open.
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Jelena Dokic was defeated there in the first round by 27th seed Alisa Kleybanova.
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Jelena Dokic played doubles, partnering with Petra Kvitova, but the pair lost in the first round.
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Jelena Dokic withdrew from the Pattaya Open in Thailand and Malaysian Open due to a mysterious illness.
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Jelena Dokic lost in the qualifying rounds of Monterrey Open and the first round of the Indian Wells Open.
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Jelena Dokic was then offered a wildcard into Miami Open but declined it due to another injury.
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Jelena Dokic then continued to withdraw from WTA Tour events in Marbella and Barcelona, Spain, and Fes, Morocco, still troubled by injuries.
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Jelena Dokic then travelled to Rome to participate at a $50k tournament but lost to Anna Tatishvili in the first round.
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Jelena Dokic reached the quarterfinals but lost to eventual champion Klara Zakopalova.
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Jelena Dokic then played the qualification for Wimbledon but lost in the second round to Julie Ditty in three sets, after committing 24 double faults, including five in the fifth game of the final set.
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Jelena Dokic then withdrew from a $100k tournament in Cuneo, Italy, with a wrist injury.
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Jelena Dokic competed at a $50k tournament in Contrexeville, France winning the singles over Olivia Sanchez, thus claiming her first title in 2010.
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Jelena Dokic then won her second straight title, in Bucharest at the $75k Ruxandra Dragomir Open defeating Zuzana Ondraskova in the final.
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Jelena Dokic has the most $50k or more titles in the ITF Circuit.
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Jelena Dokic then travelled to Asia to participate at two ITF tournaments but had disappointing result as she both lost in the first round of the 100k+H tournament in Ningbo, China, and 100k+H tournament in Tokyo, Japan.
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Jelena Dokic then travelled back to Europe and participated at a 50k tournament in Joue-les-Tours.
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Jelena Dokic double-bageled Eirini Georgatou in the first round and she beat Karolina Pliskova in the second round.
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Jelena Dokic won her first-round match in the $50k tournament in Saint-Raphael, France by beating Eva Birnerova.
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Jelena Dokic revealed that she had an elbow injury in the beginning of the year.
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Jelena Dokic started her 2011 campaign by receiving three main-draw wildcards during the Australian summer, in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne.
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Jelena Dokic comfortably won her first match in Brisbane against qualifier Anastasia Pivovarova but then lost to in-form, eventual finalist, Andrea Petkovic.
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Jelena Dokic received wildcard to participate in doubles, partnering with Sally Peers where they faced 16th seed, Timea Bacsinszky and Tathiana Garbin, in the first round.
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At the Open GdF Suez in Paris, Jelena Dokic won all three qualifying matches for a spot in the main draw.
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Jelena Dokic backed up her strong performance by defeating fifth seed and former doubles partner, Nadia Petrova in straight sets in the second round to advance to her first WTA quarterfinals appearance since the 2009 Australian Open.
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Jelena Dokic comfortably won her first match but lost in the second match to fellow Australian, Jarmila Groth.
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Jelena Dokic traveled to Kuala Lumpur where she scored her biggest win of the year by upsetting world No 5,2010 French Open champion, and top seed Francesca Schiavone in the first round, despite serving 15 double faults.
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Jelena Dokic then defeated Japan's Kurumi Nara in the second round, to advance to her second WTA quarterfinal this year.
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Jelena Dokic reinforced this win by upsetting an in-form Bojana Jovanovski, the eighth seed, in straight sets.
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Jelena Dokic faced a resurgent Michaella Krajicek of the Netherlands, who had defeated defending champion Alisa Kleybanova in the second round and prevailed to advance to her first WTA singles final since the Zurich Open in October 2003.
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Originally electing to strategically skip the qualifying stage of Indian Wells to compete in a $100k tournament in the Bahamas, Jelena Dokic then withdrew from the $100k tournament.
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Jelena Dokic won both of her matches against Tatjana Malek and Christina McHale to advance to the main draw, where she fell to a resurgent former world No 1, Dinara Safina in two sets.
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Jelena Dokic then started her clay season campaign by participating at Charleston, where she was upset in the first round by qualifier Anna Tatishvili, in three close sets.
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Jelena Dokic then participated at Fes as the sixth seed but was forced to withdraw due to a viral illness.
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Jelena Dokic finalised her preparation for the French Open by playing at Strasbourg.
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Jelena Dokic defeated Fes finalist Simona Halep in the first round in just 48 minutes, dropping only one point on serve in the second set.
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Jelena Dokic then fell to resurgent former child prodigy Mirjana Lucic.
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In Roland Garros, Jelena Dokic lost to Vera Dushevina in the first round.
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Jelena Dokic participated in doubles partnering with Melanie Oudin but the pair lost in the first round to Alexandra Dulgheru and Magdalena Rybarikova.
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In spite of an early exit from the clay Grand Slam, Jelena Dokic's ranking rose to No 57.
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Jelena Dokic then rebounded with a victory over Alla Kudryavtseva at 's-Hertogenbosch in two sets.
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Jelena Dokic participated in doubles, partnering with Bojana Jovanovski but fell to third seed Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond in the first round.
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Jelena Dokic's next scheduled tournament was Budapest, but she decided to withdraw to recover from a hamstring injury.
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Jelena Dokic then participated in Washington as the fourth seed, but her lack of match play saw her fall in the first round to China's Zhang Shuai.
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Jelena Dokic played in San Diego, but was defeated in three tight sets to Ayumi Morita with her 15 double faults being highlighted as the main concern for the match.
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Since then, Jelena Dokic did not play any further matches due to a shoulder injury.
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Jelena Dokic reached the second round but lost to Jelena Jankovic, in straight sets.
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Jelena Dokic began her 2012 season in Auckland where she lost in the first round to Mona Barthel.
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Jelena Dokic played doubles with Sofia Arvidsson where she reached the quarterfinals before losing to Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears.
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One week later, Jelena Dokic took part in the Australian Open.
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Jelena Dokic began her campaign by defeating Anna Chakvetadze in the first round.
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Jelena Dokic participated in doubles and mixed doubles competitions, partnering with Kateryna Bondarenko and Paul Hanley respectively, but lost in the first rounds of both.
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Jelena Dokic travelled to Bogota where she was the fourth seed, but lost to Paula Ormaechea.
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Jelena Dokic then suffered three consecutive first round losses at Indian Wells, Miami and Charleston, losing to Gisela Dulko, Ekaterina Makarova and Galina Voskoboeva.
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In November 2012, it was announced Jelena Dokic had undergone wrist surgery and would miss the Australian summer of events.
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In May 2013, Jelena Dokic said in an interview that she was training for a comeback attempt at smaller tournaments using an injury protected ranking.
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Jelena Dokic entered the Australian Open Wildcard Playoff in December 2013 but lost in the first round to Jarmila Gajdosova.
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Jelena Dokic was engaged by Tennis Australia as a coach in 2014, and was pictured coaching rising Australian star Daria Gavrilova at a training camp in Italy in June 2014.
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In 2023, Jelena Dokic waged a public campaign calling out online trolls who targeted her about her weight and fat-shamed her.
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Jelena Dokic has stated that the comments made about her looks and weight have affected her mental health over the years.