A documentary film on Jelena Dokic’s harrowing autobiography, Unbreakable, is soon to release in theaters.
Dokic’s autobiographical book of the same name was released in 2017, where the former world No. 4 details the phyiscal and emotional abuse she suffered at the hands of her father, Damir Dokic, who was a controversial figure throughout his daughter’s playing career.
The film, which chronicles Dokic’s ubringing as the daughter of Croatian immigrants to Australia as she rose to one of the most promising WTA talents at the turn of the 21st century, is set to feature input from others in the tennis industry, including former players Pam Shriver and Lindsay Davenport, the latter of whom played Dokic nine times; and longtime journalist Christopher Clarey, who candidly admits that he and other colleagues could’ve “dug deeper” at the time to “uncover what was really going on” behind closed doors during the early years of Dokic’s career.
“I’m 16 years old here, playing the world No. 1 Martina Hingis. I knew that if I lost,” Dokic recalls in a narration in the film’s official trailer released this week, “that the consequences would be catastrophic.”
