The remarkable story of Jelena Dokic – an elite tennis star who beat the best in the world with a mental toughness few | dG1faW1jMGFlMTRhdEU
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00:00I'm 16 years old here. I'm playing the world number one Martina Hingis.
00:06I knew that if I lost the consequences were catastrophic.
00:11Sorry.
00:14She's been playing in strife-torn Yugoslavia.
00:17Before her family sought refuge in Australia.
00:19Yelena burst out onto the scene.
00:21She really was unbelievable.
00:23What a player of the future we have in Yelena Dokic.
00:26She beat everybody.
00:27She had the talent to be number one.
00:29How long will it take?
00:30Three years.
00:31Monitored by her father, Yelena works hard.
00:34You protect her?
00:35Of course.
00:38Please go.
00:40From fairly early times, there were rumours about what was happening.
00:43Everything they do is good for Yelena.
00:45Some other players had noticed bruising.
00:47The questions were asked, but they hit a brick wall.
00:49Family is the biggest support you can have.
00:52One day, after a loss, he was extremely angry.
00:56I knew what was going to happen.
00:59It was just terrible.
01:01It was not an inch of skin that wasn't bruised.
01:05How did she play this well?
01:08With everything going on in her private life.
01:12Some of her interviews sounded like hostage videos.
01:15The media in tennis Australia assaulted my family.
01:18I'm 17.
01:19And through his actions, became the most hated person.
01:24I remember just standing there like, oh my gosh, what are we going into?
01:31Could I have dug deeper to uncover what was really going on?
01:34And I think a lot of us could have.
01:36He was unravelling badly.
01:38Police found two bombs.
01:40I was starting to feel really broken inside.
01:45When you look back and see what she did accomplish.
01:49Wow.
01:50Every time you go out there on the court, you've got to believe that you can win.
01:58It's similar in life as well.