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Jelena Dokic
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Jelena Dokic, born on April 12, 1983, in Belgrade, Serbia, is a female professional tennis player who has played for both Australia and Serbia and Montenegro, and currently plays for Australia.

Her career-high ranking is No. 4 (on August 19, 2002) while Dokić 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.

Dokić is an eldest child of Damir and Ljiljana Dokic. 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.

Dokic was an accomplished junior player. In 1998, she won the US Open girls singles title, and the French Open doubles with Kim Clijsters, ending the season ranked number 1 in in the International Tennis Federation junior singles world ranking and number 7 in doubles. 

In 2008, after receiving a wildcard for the qualifying of the Moorilla Hobart International, Dokić managed to beat three quality players to reach the main draw, where she defeated 54th ranked Martina Muller 6-4 0-6 6-2 before withdrawing with an injury in her second round game against Flavia Pennetta. Continuing her comeback, Dokic beat Marina Erakovic in straight sets in the first round of qualifying for the 2008 Australian Open. Dokic was quoted in The Australian newspaper on January 11, 2008 as saying her intense conditioning to return to tennis has gotten her weight down to 67kg from as high as 83kg before training began in October 2007. Dokic is quoted as saying her ideal playing weight is 62kg.