Name |
Jelena Dokic |
Height |
5'9" |
Naionality |
Yugoslavia |
Date of Birth |
April 12, 1983 |
Place of Birth |
Osijek, Yugoslavia |
Famous for |
|
Jelena Dokić (Serbian: Јелена Докић) (born 12 April 1983) is a female professional tennis player who has played for both Australia and Serbia and Montenegro (including Yugoslavia prior to February 2003), and currently plays for Australia. Her career-high ranking is No. 4 (on August 19, 2002), but by the end of 2005 had slipped to 349th place in the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) singles rankings. As of October 16, 2006, Dokić is 620th in the WTA rankings.
The high points of Dokic's career include beating No. 1 ranked Martina Hingis in the first round of Wimbledon in 1999, Kim Clijsters (also ranked No.1 at the time) at the 2003 Zürich Open (October) as well as Venus Williams in Rome 2000. She was ranked No. 4 in 2002 (a career high), No. 14 in 2003, and No. 25 in 2004.