Trying to climb her way back into the WTA, Jelena Dokic last week won $25,000 at the ITF in Darmstadt. She used to be the IT girl about 8 years ago when she started out but fell hard. Maybe she's gonna make a comeback. Jelena still has the looks, damn hot nipples.
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Excerpts from her bio on Wikipedia,
Jelena Dokic (Serbian: Јелена Докић, Jelena Dokić, pronounced roughly YELL-en-a DOK-itch, born April 12, 1983) is a female professional tennis player from Australia.
During her career high, she played for Serbia and Montenegro (FR Yugoslavia prior to February 2003), when she reached career-high ranking of World No. 4 (on August 19, 2002). However, after several family issues (particularly from her father's side), she slowly slipped down the rankings in 2006. In 2008, she is slowly returning to tennis, and after wining two ITF tournaments in Italy, she reached 269 (May 26, 2008).
The high points of Dokić's career include beating several World No. 1 players: Martina Hingis in the first round of Wimbledon in 1999, Kim Clijsters at the 2003 Zürich Open, and Venus Williams in Rome 2000. Other high-calibre players who Dokić has defeated include Monica Seles, Justine Henin, Mary Pierce, and Jennifer Capriati. Other notable career achievements include reaching the Wimbledon semifinals in 2000 and losing in the bronze medal playoff at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.
Jelena was born to a Serbian family in Osijek, Yugoslavia[1] (now Croatia) 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.[2]
2007
After withdrawing from several ITF events in the early months of 2007, Dokić lost in the early rounds of two $10,000 events in Rome. Dokić then continued to withdraw from events, allegedly due to a wrist injury which had been troubling her for some time. Back in Australia on October 17, Dokic released a statement through Tennis Australia saying that she would be using their facilities in an attempt to make a successful comeback.[5] She said that she had not felt "within herself" to play during 2007 season but was now ready to put in the hard work necessary to get back to the top. She cited Mary Pierce, Jennifer Capriati, and Andre Agassi as inspirational figures for her to follow towards her goal of reaching the highest echelons of tennis once more. Dokic's long awaited return to tennis came during the Australian Open wildcard playoff, where she was hoping to earn a wildcard into the first Grand Slam tournament of 2008. Dokić emerged from the round robin stage with a 3–0 record before retiring in her quarterfinal match while trailing 6–3, 3–1 due to a thigh strain.
[edit] 2008
Dokić received a wildcard for the qualifications of the Moorilla Hobart International, where she 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. Dokić received a qualifying wildcard into the Australian Open, where she lost in the second round.
After a three month layoff, Dokić finally returned to action at the Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem tournament in Fes where she qualified but lost in the first round against Greta Arn.
She then entered the following week in a $25,000 ITF tournament in Florence, Italy, where she successfully qualified and proceeded to win the tournament, saving two match points against Mirjana Lucic in the quarterfinals and defeating seventh-seeded Lucie Hradecka in the final 6-1, 6-3. A week later, Dokić continued her winning streak by capturing the $25,000 ITF tournament in Caserta, Italy.
She was then offered a wildcard to the Internationaux de Strasbourg, where she lost in the first round to Swiss Timea Bacsinszky.
In July, she won a $25,000 ITF in Darmstadt after winning the final 6-0, 6-0.
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