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Damir Dokić (Serbian: Дамир Докић, born 1950s) is a Serbian tennis coach. He is the father and ex-coach of former professional tennis player Jelena Dokic. He gained notoriety for being involved in various incidents. Dokić is a self-proclaimed veteran of the Croatian War of Independence, in which he fought on the side of ...
Mar 18, 2009 · DAMIR Dokic has apologised for ruining his daughter's life and spurning Australia at the height of her career. The shamed father of newborn Aussie tennis golden girl Jelena Dokic has offered an olive branch to his daughter and the Australian public by finally saying sorry for years of outrageous public behaviour.
From the very first day that I started playing tennis, the No.1 rule was ‘Never tell anyone anything, or there will be massive, massive consequences’,” she says, alluding to her infamously abusive father and former coach, Damir. “Speaking up has changed my life. I was able to find my voice. I was able to find my power.”
- Konrad Marshall
Sep 27, 2011 · Damir was released from jail last year after almost a year behind bars for threatening to blow up the Australian Embassy in Belgrade and having an illegal cache of weapons.
- Lucy Carne
Sep 23, 2011 · Aussie tennis star Jelena Dokic visits Serbia to reunite with her estranged father Damir. She once said she would never speak to him again, but Jelena Dokic has returned to the Serbian home of her ...
- Lucy Carne
Even if she has not made peace with the abuser: her father, Damir Dokic. A man dubbed the “tennis father from hell” by sections of the media. “I sleep well at night,” she says. “I don’t speak...
Her relationship with her outspoken father and coach Damir Dokić, on whose advice she switched allegiance to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in November 2000, was the subject of much media speculation over many years.
