Jelena Dokic has reconciled with her father Damir after an eight-year rift, the Australian tennis player announced. Dokic, who reached a career-high ranking of No4 as a teenager, split with her father and former coach after a series of public incidents, including accusations that Australian Open organisers fixed the 2001 draw, a complaint about food prices at the US Open, and his ejection from Wimbledon for being drunk and disorderly. She later accused him of years of humiliation and abuse.
Damir Dokic was released from jail last year after serving nearly 12 months for threatening to blow up the Australian embassy in Belgrade and possessing an illegal cache of weapons at his home. The 28-year-old Dokic, now ranked No17, said she and her partner Tin Bikic visited her father in Serbia to end their disagreement.
“I am in a very positive and confident frame of mind in my life and I really wanted to do this because I believe it is the right thing to do both for me and for all of my family,” Dokic said in a statement. “My father was very receptive and I believe he has changed greatly. He understands that I am my own person who makes my own decisions.”
