Struggling Serbian tennis star Jelena Dokic has announced plans to rebuild her career with the help of her father. Dokic, who reached world number four in August 2002, has slumped to 105th following a series of injuries and a bitter split with her coach dad Damir.
But the Vecernje Novosti daily reported on Tuesday the pair have reunited.
"I'm starting from zero. I still have two-three months until the first tournaments (of 2005) and I'll try hard to recover my old form," Dokic said.
Dokic started her professional career as a 14-year-old representing Australia, where her family emigrated in 1994.
But she continues to hold dual citizenship and currently lives in Belgrade.
At Wimbledon in 1999, as a qualifier ranked 129th, she scored the Open era's biggest upset when she defeated then world number one Martina Hingis in the first round on her way to the quarter-finals.
A year later she became the first woman representing Australia to reach the semi-finals of Wimbledon since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1980.
But her career has been plagued by distractions provided by her father, a former boxer who has repeatedly clashed with journalists and tennis officials around the world.
In 2000 he was barred from Wimbledon after breaking a reporter's mobile phone, and later that year was banned for six months from WTA events for abusive behaviour at the US Open.
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