The thirty-nine-year-old former tennis player does not have an easy life. She grew up in poverty, her pedantic father subjected her to mental and physical terror countless times, which she herself admitted a few years ago, even thinking about suicide after the breakup last year.
However, Dokičová does not give up and fights with her troubles. She is a tennis commentator on Channel Nine and is loved by most of the fans. However, there are also those who have a need to constantly connect with the former world top four.
“I really don’t think it’s fair that a whale like Jelena Dokičová takes my joy from watching tennis and turns it into crap,” one of the Internet trolls wrote, for example. “All she does is say how good she is. I bet it would take her 10 minutes to run 100 meters. Please get rid of her. Just looking at her makes me turn it off,” he continued.
The 2009 Australian Open quarter-finalist, who retired five years later due to thyroid dysfunction, took to Instagram to share some of the disgusting attacks on her person with her fans, telling women who are also subjected to similar insults that they are not alone .
“The most common comment is ‘What happened to her to make her so big?’ I’ll tell you what happened, I’m looking for a way, I’m surviving and I’m fighting,” Dokičová said, adding that weight shouldn’t matter. “It’s about kindness and whether you’re a good person, which those of you who act like this obviously are they are not,” she wrote.
“The weight will change, but bad people will stay bad. I’m here, I’m fighting for everyone who’s being abused,” said the winner of ten career singles titles. Last week, the former tennis player shared another vile comment that alluded to her past attempts to commit suicide. “Now that the Australian Open is starting, she’s going to try with Jelena Dokičová about suicide like every year,” someone wrote to her in Serbian with a laughing emoji.
Dokičová commented on this post as a “new low” and admitted that it made her cry. She reminded how many people commit suicide every year and that she does not understand how anyone can laugh at such a thing. “I send so much love to all the good people out there and especially to all those who are fighting “, she added at the end.
