Jelena Dokic documentary: Tennis ace reveals horrific abuse by her father – ‘There wasn’t an inch of skin not bruised’

FORMER tennis prima Jelena Dokic has opened up astir the horrific home unit she suffered astatine the hands of her father.

Dokic, 41, recounted her experiences for a caller documentary, entitled "Unbreakable".

The film, which carries the aforesaid sanction arsenic Dokic's 2017 autobiography, is acceptable to beryllium released successful Australian cinemas connected November 7 - with a worldwide merchandise expected to follow.

Dokic reached the Wimbledon semi-finals successful 2000, and peaked astatine satellite No4 2 years later.

She burst onto the country arsenic a prodigiously talented teenager, aft her household had emigrated to Australia from Yugoslavia erstwhile she was 11.

In a caller trailer for her upcoming film, Dokic makes a chilling revelation.

While watching footage of herself playing, she says: "I'm 16-years-old here.

"I was playing the fig 1 Martina Hingis and I knew if I mislaid the consequences were catastrophic.

"One time aft I mislaid I knew what was going to happen... I was starting to consciousness truly breached inside.

"There was not an inch of tegument that wasn't bruised. I'm 17 and done his actions, [I] became the astir hated person."

Old footage shows Dokic being booed during a lucifer with Lindsay Davenport, with fans unaware of the torment that she was going done disconnected the court.

Former Wimbledon champion Davenport says: "Some different players had noticed bruising."

And salient commentator and erstwhile doubles satellite No1 Pam Shriver adds: "When you look backmost and spot what she did accomplish, wow."

In the trailer, a young Dokic tin beryllium seen saying: "The media and Tennis Australia assaulted my family."

Her interviews from the clip were past claimed to look similar "hostage videos".

Dokic, present 41, retired from tennis successful 2014.

She has since go a salient dependable wrong the athletics successful her country, and tin beryllium recovered conducting on-court interviews astatine the Australian Open.

Speaking to The Independent past December, Dokic revealed that she hadn't spoken to her begetter Damir successful a decade.

She said: "I slumber good astatine night. I don’t talk to him, 10 years agone was the past time.

"I tried to reconcile but it’s hard erstwhile helium can’t adjacent accidental sorry.

"I hoped helium would change, but it wasn’t imaginable and I deliberation astatine immoderate stage, adjacent if it’s family, you person to fto it spell and say, ‘That’s excessively toxic for me.’

"That’s what I did – and the time I did that made maine precise happy. My begetter ever said to maine ‘Don’t situation accidental anything, enactment soundless oregon I volition termination you.’ Silence is golden.

"I deliberation with nine and sport, it’s often astir being a cleanable quality being but we hide that beingness is not perfect.

"I privation to alteration the cognition that vulnerability is simply a weakness – you person nary thought however overmuch spot it takes to beryllium vulnerable.

"It takes courage, particularly with the satellite watching."

In summation to her tennis punditry for Channel 9 successful Australia, Dokic works to effort to amended things for those who whitethorn beryllium suffering similar she did.

Last twelvemonth she gave much than 150 motivational speeches, hoping that by sharing her communicative she tin play a portion successful helping others.