Jelena has come back home!
Neda MILETIC  18.10.2004, 18:45:13
Translated for www.jelena-dokic.com by Branko Koncarevic

FAMILY Dokic has been reunited again! Recently first racquet of Serbia and Montenegro, former world no. 4 on Sunday returned home, to her parents and brother Sava. Reporter of "Sport" caught them in warm and sunny home with smiles on their faces, happy... They are together again, like before...
In place nearby the Fruska Gora Mountain, on the Dokic's ranch, exclusively for "Sport" Jelena told her story. She didn't want to talk about what had happened in her life and career for past two years. She had left it behind herself and for herself. She had turned new page in her life and only looks towards future.
- I consider this to be a good decision. I've come back home, but that is my private matter. And, as for tennis, I think it will help me a lot. Private life must be taken care of in order to play good game and accomplish results. From now on I'll working with my dad, we had already made a plan - says blond beauty.
First-class results, to remind, Jelena achieved in time when her father had coached her. Aged 15 she was world junior no. 1. One year later she wrote the history of Wimbledon, when in tournament’s main draw she had defeated until then the untouchable leader of world tennis Swiss Martina Hingis.
Then came Jelena's golden series of success on the most prestigious WTA tournaments: she had won five titles, from which three were the 'million': Tokyo, Rome, Moscow. On September 2002, she became world no. 4, just behind America's three: the Williams sisters and Capriati. She is now world no. 105 (last week world no. 44) and she's 21. She has a lot of time to come back on the golden tracks, and it is known fact that mature years of the women's tennis come not before 25.
- I'm staring from the beginning again. I have to take care of my medical problems with my teeth and tonsils first, and then I'll start working. There are 2-3 months until my first tournaments, meaning I'll have enough time to prepare. I haven't been training a lot and I am not near the game I use to play. For starters, I must regain my condition. Most probably I'll be preparing in Belgrade - Jelena explains.
Damir's heart is also full of happiness.
- We had seen it from every angle, what had happened, happened. She had decided to be her family again. Jelena had shown she was a great player, the she was caught by a crisis. Time came to set that right I to return on the place where she had been - says Damir Dokic.
Ever since she had left Australia in 2001 she haven't been playing on season's first Grand Slam, played in the very same country.
- I will not go to Australia next year as well. Plan is to return to Top 15, and I will be playing doubles more - Jelena concluded.

NOTE TO THE READERS: This article has been published by website of "Vercernje novosti" and had been written by the reporter of "Sport" on Serbian. The link for the same article in Serbian is http://www.novosti.co.yu/vest.php?vest=33360&rubrika=Sport