Former Australian tennis star Jelena Dokic has confirmed her controversial father Damir has died.
In a post to Instagram on Wednesday night, Dokic confirmed her father died on Friday, May 16.
“Despite everything and no matter how hard, difficult and in the last 10 years even non-existent our relationship and communication was, it is never easy losing a parent and a father even one you are estranged from,” she wrote.
“The loss of an estranged parent comes with a difficult and complicated grief.”
Dokic has been open in recent months about the abuse she suffered at the hands of her father, which began when she took up tennis at the age of six and continued even as she reached the Wimbledon semi-finals as a teenager.
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Damir Dokic became a figure of ridicule after antics such as losing his temper at the cafeteria at the US Open over the price of fish, and angrily approaching a female reporter at Wimbledon and breaking her phone.
In 2009, he was jailed for 15 months for threatening to blow up the Australian ambassador to Serbia and possessing illegal weapons.
“It’s an end of a chapter and life as I know it,” Jelena Dokic said on social media
