Jelena Dokic’s victories amid her 16-year tennis vocation came at a substantial individual value, she says. The Yugoslavia-conceived Australian was once positioned fourth on the planet, and achieved the semi-finals of Wimbledon in 2000, yet she asserts she endured a very long time of mental and physical mishandle from her dad Damir, who instructed her from an early age.
Dokic has asserted she was whipped with a cowhide belt and kicked in the shins on the off chance that she didn’t prepare well, and that she was routinely left wounded and bloodied.
That ought to have been one of the immense features, yet after the match my dad thought I was a disrespect and a shame and didn’t enable me to return to the inn.
I needed to remain at Wimbledon in the players’ parlor that evening and that night and endeavor to rest there. I stowed away on a love seat trusting nobody would discover me, yet the cleaners did at 11pm. The arbitrator was called and I needed to discover elsewhere to rest for the night – no cash, no charge card, nothing. It wasn’t about power, it was for me progressively an exit plan since I had a feeling that I was letting many individuals down. I left my sibling behind and he was eight years more youthful, around 11 years of age, and I had a ton of blame and that was somewhat the way my father influenced me to feel – he didn’t give me a chance to converse with my sibling for around five years, six years, so it was, difficult for me.
I had this blame about whether I made the best decision and he always influenced me to feel useless, I lost a considerable measure of certainty and confidence and notwithstanding when I cleared out home, despite everything he put me through damnation and extremely made life troublesome.
I just felt everyone would be in an ideal situation on the off chance that I wasn’t here. All I needed was to have a typical life and to have the capacity to play tennis in peace.
Presently 34 and a mentor herself, she has discharged a book and has told about verbally abusing, being removed from her lodging and having self-destructive musings and suicidal thoughts.
