WHEN most people think of Jelena Dokic, they think of a prodigious tennis player who made the quarter-finals of Wimbledon at the tender age of 16, the semi-finals of Wimbledon at 17, a Sydney Olympian (finishing fourth), in the world’s top 10 by the age of 18 and holding the number four single and number nine doubles rankings by the time she was 19.

But, Jelena Dokic is much more than just a former tennis player who had excep