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Biography |
Jelena Dokić is a female professional
tennis player who has played for both Australia and Serbia
and Montenegro (FR Yugoslavia prior to February 2003), and
currently plays for Australia. Her career-high ranking is
No. 4 (on August 19, 2002) while she was playing for Serbia,
but after several family issues, particularly from her
father's side, she has slowly slipped down the rankings and
she currently doesn't hold a WTA ranking whatsoever.
The high points of Dokic's career include beating No. 1
ranked players Martina Hingis in the first round of
Wimbledon in 1999 and Kim Clijsters (also ranked No.1 at the
time) at the 2003 Zürich Open as well as Venus Williams in
Rome 2000. She also reached the Wimbledon semi-finals in
2000, and lost the bronze medal playoff at the 2000 Olympic
Games in Sydney, Australia.
Jelena was born to a Serbian family in Belgrade, Yugoslavia
as an eldest child of Damir and Ljiljana Dokić. She has a
younger brother, Savo. At the start of the war in Croatia in
June 1991, where they lived in Osijek, her family moved away
to Sombor, Serbia, and later, in 1994, emigrated to
Australia. From 1994, they lived in Fairfield, a suburb of
Sydney; where she attended Fairfield High School. |
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since February 6, 2008