Dokic grief at dad’s death ‘difficult and complicated’

After learning of Damir’s passing, Jelena Dokic describes her grief as “difficult and complicated.”

Dokic, a former world number four until she retired in 2014, revealed in 2017 that her father had repeatedly abused her physically and mentally.

After becoming abusive in the players’ lounge during the US Open, Damir was suspended from all WTA Tour events for six months in 2000.

He was also imprisoned in 2009 for using a hand grenade to attack the Australian ambassador to Serbia.

Dokic had been separated from her father for ten years, and in 2000 made it to the semi-finals.

Australia’s Dokic wrote, “My relationship with my father has been difficult and painful with a lot of history,” in a caption that appeared beneath an Instagram photo of her father and herself as a young child.

It’s never easy to lose a parent and a father, even if you are separated from them, despite everything and no matter how difficult, difficult, or ineffective our communication and relationship were.

Dokic, 42, has won six WTA singles titles in her career.

Dokic claimed in her 2017 autobiography, Unbreakable, that she had just a suitcase and her tennis bag when she left home in the middle of the night after giving her father all of her income.

Dokic continued on Wednesday, saying, “Life as it is, and this is the end of a chapter.” For me, there are many conflicting and complex emotions and feelings.

I choose to concentrate on a memorable memory like this picture for the chapter’s conclusion.

“And as always, and especially significant to who I am as a person and what I want to stand for, which are respect, grace, kindness, dignity, and empathy.

I’ll leave it there for the time being.