Jelena Dokic – Bio, Net Worth, Age, Boyfriend, Partner, Salary, Ranking, Family, Parents, Nationality, Height, Weight, Books, Career, Retire, Ranking

Jelena Dokic is an Australian tennis coach, commentator, writer, and former professional tennis player who is well recognized for ranking world No. 4 as a tennis player in August 2002. She won WTA Tour events on all surfaces during her career and achieved one of the biggest upsets in tennis history, beating Martina Hingis 6-2, 6-0 in the 1999 Wimbledon Championships. Dokic switched back to Australia in 2005 and accused her father of physical and mental abuse in her 2017 autobiography Unbreakable. She 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. She is also active in social media as she has gained more than 57.8k followers in her Instagram account. Additionally, Jelena praised the support Ashleigh Barty had received from her parents in 2021 while commentating on Wimbledon for Channel Nine.

‘Not in a good space’: Jelena Dokic’s heartbreaking revelation

Jelena Dokic says she is going through a “very tough period” as she undergoes a “huge change” in her life. She revealed that she is “not in a good space” to communicate with fans, posting a lengthy Instagram message to explain to her followers what is going on.”I am sure you have all noticed that I have been absent from social media for a while now,” Dokic wrote. “Thank you for all your messages of concern and care for me. I really appreciate it. “I am going through a very tough period in my life right now and a huge change and I just need some time to recover, heal and process the pain and trauma that I am going through. “I know a lot of you have written to me and I haven’t replied but just know that I do see your messages and I appreciate them very much but I am not in a good space right now to reply and communicate with you all like I usually do and I am so sorry for that. 

“The same goes for posting so I will be staying off Instagram for a little while longer. I know so many of you look forward to my posts and find so much inspiration in them and I am so sorry I can’t provide that for you right now. “And to those that have told me that in person and stopped me on the street to tell me how much I and my posts inspire you, thank you. Please know that I love you all and I am very grateful for all your support and love. “To my friends and the people close to me that know what I am going through, thank you for all your love and care. Don’t know what I would do without you and you know who you are. “I will be back and I will be back stronger than ever even if it doesn’t feel like that right now but I will be back. I always am and I know the sun will shine again. Thank you for your understanding.”

Famous For

• Being an Australian tennis coach, commentator, writer, and former professional tennis player.
• For ranking world No. 4 as a tennis player in August 2002. 

Source: @nypost

What Nationality is Jelena Dokic?

Jelena Dokic stepped for the very first time into the world on 12th April 1983 in Osijek, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia. She holds Australian nationality and she came from a mixed ethnic background as she is of Serb on her father’s side and Croat on her mother’s side. Likewise, her religion is Christian and her race is white. Jelena has celebrated her 38th birthday as of 2021 and as per her birth date, her zodiac sign is Aries. She is the daughter of her father Damir Dokic and her mother, Ljiljana Dokic. She has a younger brother, Savo, eight years her junior. 

Moving to Jelena’s education, she attended Fairfield High School.

Jelena Dokic Career Timeline

• Jelena Dokic kicks off her career winning the US Open girls singles title and the French Open doubles with Kim Clijsters in 1998, ending the season ranked world No. 1 in the International Tennis Federation junior singles rankings and world No. 7 in doubles. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.
• She then began the year 1999 by teaming up with Mark Philippoussis to win the Hopman Cup title and received a wildcard into the Australian Open, losing to world No. 1 Martina Hingis in two sets. She caused an upset, defeating world No. 1 Hingis in the first round in straight sets.
• She also reached her first WTA doubles final with Amanda Coetzer in Tokyo whereas, during 1999, she jumped 298 spots, finishing the year at world No. 43.
• She reached the fourth round of the US Open, where she lost to Serena Williams after holding two set points in the first-set tiebreaker. 
• At the 2000 Summer Olympics, representing Australia, Jelena lost to Monica Seles in the bronze medal match after which she teamed with Rennae Stubbs, but lost in the second round. Dokic finished the year at world No. 26.
• She started playing for Yugoslavia in 2001 where she won her first singles title in the Rome Masters in May, defeating Amelie Mauresmo in the final 7-6, 6-1. 
• She reached five finals, winning two titles, in Tokyo, and the Kremlin Cup. She also won her second title in doubles in Linz, with Nadia Petrova, and qualified for the WTA Tour Championships in singles, reaching the quarterfinals. She finished the year at world No. 8. The Yugoslav Olympic Committee declared her its athlete of the year for 2001.
• Later she reached the final of the Open Gaz de France in 2002 where she was forced to hand a walkover to Venus Williams, after her first victory over Monica Seles a day earlier.
• In Strasbourg, she reached her fifth final, losing to Silvia Farina Elia, and at the French Open, she was defeated by top-seeded Jennifer Capriati in the quarterfinals.
• She won her fifth career singles title in Birmingham, defeating Myskina in the final in two sets. She then lost in the fourth round at Wimbledon to Daniela Hantuchova.
• She also reached the final of the Acura Classic in San Diego, scoring her first win over Capriati in a three-set match. In the final, she was defeated by Venus Williams. 
• She reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 4 and then reached the semifinals in Bahia and Tokyo. Dokic again qualified for the WTA Tour Championships, losing in the quarterfinals to Serena Williams. She finished the year ranked world No. 9 in singles.
• She played 30 events, reaching one final, one semifinal, and seven quarterfinals in 2003. and she received a wildcard into the Auckland Open in Auckland representing Australia for the first time in five years, but lost her first-round match to Julia Schruff, hitting 51 unforced errors and 28 double faults.
• She also 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. 
• She was offered a wildcard to the Internationaux de Strasbourg, where she lost in the first round to Swiss Timea Bacsinszky.
• Jelena was knocked out of the Brisbane International by Amelie Mauresmo in straight sets in the first round in 2009 but she won the set in a tiebreak, 7-5.
• She won her first-round match at the Australian Open against Tamira Paszek of Austria which was her first Grand Slam match win since 2003. She then defeated world No. 17, Anna Chakvetadze in the second round, 6-4, 6-7, 6-3, and 11th-seeded Caroline Wozniacki in the third round. This was also the first time she had reached the fourth round of the Australian Open.
• At the Cellular South Cup in Memphis, Tennessee, she won two qualifying matches to reach the main draw, where she lost in the first round to top-seeded Wozniacki 1-6, 2-6 in 48 minutes.
• Dokic’s next tournament was the Indian Wells Open, a Premier Mandatory event, where she lost to American Jill Craybas in the first round. However, she received a wildcard for the main draw of another Premier Mandatory event, the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne. She defeated Romanian Edina Gallovits in the first round before losing to 13th-seeded Wozniacki in the second round.
• In the first round, she beat Karolina Sprem which was her first win in the French Open since 2003. She competed at the US Open but lost to Kirsten Flipkens in the first round. She advanced to her second final of the year but lost to Sofia Arvidsson by 2-6, 6-7.
• She then played at Poitiers, a $100k event, as the fourth seed. This time, she won 6-4, 6-4, clinching her second title in 2009. Dokic finished 2009 ranked world No. 56, her best showing since 2004.
• She participated in two Australian Open warm-up tournaments in 2010 as she opened the season at the Brisbane International, where she lost to former world No. 1, Ana Ivanovic, in three sets in the first round.
• Dokic 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. 
• She then won her second straight title, in Bucharest at the $75k Ruxandra Dragomir Open defeating Zuzana Ondraskova in the final as well as she won her first-round match in the $50k tournament in Saint-Raphael, France by beating Eva Birnerova. She retired in her second-round match against Urszula Radwanska leading 7-5, 0-2, with a suspected thigh injury.
• Also, she participated in the Australian Open Wildcard playoff tournament in December. In her round robin, she won all three of her matches and a spot in the semifinal round where she defeated Alicia Molik. However, Jelena lost to Olivia Rogowska in the final.
• She began her 2011 campaign by receiving three main-draw wildcards during the Australian summer, in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne whereas she comfortably won her first match in Brisbane against qualifier Anastasia Pivovarova but then lost to in-form, eventual finalist, Andrea Petkovic. 
• She easily dispatched Zuzana Ondraskova in the first round but fell to Barbora Zahlavova-Strycova in the Australian Open. She won all three qualifying matches for a spot in the main draw at the Open GdF Suez in Paris. But, her run ended after Kim Clijsters beat her despite leading 3-0 in the first set, in a victory that brought Clijsters back to world No. 1.
• She 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 which is her first win against a top-5 player since 2003.
• She also concluded the tournament by beating Lucie Safarova in the final after saving two championships points in the second set tiebreak and being down 1-3 in the final set which was her first WTA title under the Australian flag and the first since June 2002 where she won the DFS Classic, in Birmingham. 
• Later she went back to Belgrade, Serbia, and reconciled with her father on 27th September 2011 and then participated in the qualifying round of Linz in October but retired after losing the first set 3-6 in the first qualifying match to Evgeniya Rodina due to the shoulder injury that had been bothering her since July which turned out to be Dokic last match in 2011.
• Jelena started her 2012 season in Auckland where she lost in the first round to Mona Barthel after which she received a wildcard to compete in Sydney. In the first round, Dokic defeated fellow Australian Isabella Holland to set up a clash against eighth-seeded Marion Bartoli in the second round where she lost in two sets.
• In December 2013, she entered the Australian Open Wildcard Playoff but lost in the first round to Jarmila Gajdosova.
• Subsequently, Jelena was engaged by Tennis Australia as a coach immediately following her retirement and was pictured coaching rising Australian star Daria Gavrilova at a training camp in Italy in June 2014. She also wrote for “Australian Tennis Magazine” in 2014.
• She was a commentator for Fox Sports at the Australian Open in January 2017 and later that year, she published her autobiography, “Unbreakable”.
• Dokic praised the support Ashleigh Barty had received from her parents, prompting Dokic to become so emotional she worried she would ”fall apart” live on air. in 2021 while commentating on Wimbledon for Channel Nine.

Awards and Achievements

1998

• ITF World Junior Champions

2001

• Sportswoman of The Year by Olympic Committee of Yugoslavia

Jelena Dokic Boyfriend: Is Jelena Dokic Dating Someone?

Jelena Dokic is an unmarried lady. She is in a romantic relationship with her handsome boyfriend Tin Bikic, a man who she credits for “bringing her back from the brink” and the man who has also been a rock during her recent weight loss battle. “He’s gone through so much with me,” she says, smiling. “We’re a bit unusual in that we got together when we were 20, and 17 years on we’re still together.” “He’s really supportive and just wants me to be healthy, for me, for us, and for our future. Throughout he has never been judgemental or critical.” “Marriage is on the list,” she confirms. “And while we’re not planning on having kids right now, it’s one of the things that is very important.” “I want to raise my children very differently from how I was raised,” she says, referring to the years of physical and mental abuse she endured. “Having a family is definitely in the future.” Regarding Dokic’s sexual orientation, she is straight.

Source: @zimbio

Jelena Dokic Net Worth: How much is her salary?

Jelena Dokic has a net worth of $5 million as of 2021 whereas she has also a handsome amount of salary which is also in thousands of dollars per year. She has reached great heights in her career already and she still has a lot more to do. In addition, her major source of income is from her tennis coach, commentator, writer, and former professional tennis player career and she has won the prize money of $4,481,044. Jelena has not done any endorsement work yet.

Jelena Dokic Height and Weight

Jelena Dokic has a pretty face and a magnetic personality which has cast spells over her viewers over the years. She has 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) of height and her body weighs around 60 kg. She has good-looking blonde hair and dark brown eyes color. Moreover, Jelena’s body build type is athletic.