Chilling abuse reveal in new tennis doc: the most hated person

Former Australian tennis champion Jelena Dokic is set to tell her life story in a new documentary to be released next month.This week a trailer was released for the documentary titled “Unbreakable.”The story of Dokic is well known.She was born in Yugoslavia and her family moved to Australia when she was 11 years old.Making a name for herself as a talented junior tennis player, Dokic won the 1998 US Open girls title and the French Open doubles with Kim Clijsters.She won the Hopman Cup in 1999 for Australia with Mark Philippoussis.Her breakthrough moment came that same year when as a 16-year-old qualifier, she upset Martina Hingis in the first round at Wimbledon and made a run to the quarterfinals.In 2000 she reached the Wimbledon semifinals, her best result at a grand slam.After a turbulent period in the mid 2000s, she made a comeback to tennis and made a fairytale run to the quarterfinals at the 2009 Australian Open.But behind the scenes her relationship with her father Damir Dokic became strained and in her 2017 memoir “Unbreakable” she detailed the horrific physical and mental abuse she suffered at the hands of her father.The documentary has taken three years to produce, with the official trailer released by movie studio, Village Roadshow, this week.The film was written by Ivan O’Mahoney and journalist Jessica Halloran, and features plenty of big names from the tennis world.In the trailer, Dokic is heard reflecting on her father’s abuse, and breaks down in tears at one stage.“I’m 16 years old.

I’m playing the World No.1 Martina Hingis,” she said.

“I knew that if I lost, the consequences would be catastrophic.One day after I lost, he was extremely angry.

I knew what was going to happen.“There was not an inch of skin that wasn’t bruised.

I’m 17 and through his actions, (I) became the most hated person.”Featured is Dokic’s contemporary Lindsay Davenport, the three-time grand slam champion who was the top female tennis player in the...