Jelena Dokic has detailed the harrowing abuse she suffered at the hands of father Damir

JELENA Dokic has detailed how the barrage of abuse she suffered at the hands of her father Damir became part of her day-to-day life.

JELENA Dokic has continued to detail the extraordinary toll she suffered at the hands of her father Damir during her professional tennis career.

The shocking revelations have stunned those around the country and left many questioning why nothing was done to curtail the abuse.

Tennis Australia revealed in a statement released yesterday that officials had reported concerns about Dokic’s welfare but without co-operation from those involved, they could not be fully investigated.

In an interview with Carrie Bickmore on The Project, Dokic opened up on the daily struggles she faced and how the constant abuse became ”normal”.

“You get to a stage after that happening for a couple of years where it’s just your everyday life and you accept it as being, let’s say normal.” Dokic said.

“That’s what my life was about, that’s what I had to deal with literally on a day-to-day basis.”

“There was always something even if it at times wasn’t physical, which was very rare, it was emotional. There was always something that I didn’t do right.”

Throughout the entire ordeal, Dokic constantly tried to keep her focus on the tennis court and ensure the flow of money was continually streaming in.

Jelena Dokic on The Project detailed the constant abuse she suffered daily.

“It was tough because I was growing up, I was 17 or 18 and it wasn’t stopping and I knew that he was motivated by money and I constantly tried to play well and earn more which I was doing well, but it wasn’t enough.

“I was really breaking down inside and it was so tough for me to play a professional sport that is very brutal.”

Looking back on the beatings and punishments she was forced to receive, Dokic stated she could draw her bruises that covered her body.

“I remember the bruises very clear, I could literally draw them how they look like when I looked in the mirror.”

Revealing harrowing details of how everything she had was signed over into the name of her father, Dokic said the decision to flee the family home was one she thought would never eventuate.

“I left with just my racquet bag and my suitcase and that was it. I had no money, no credit card. I signed everything over to him a couple of months earlier, I think he thought that I was too scared probably to do it and that I would always stay no matter what.”

After trying to mend the relationship with her father in 2010, she explained how one decision was something that to this very day still made her very angry.

“You ask me if I hate him and if I was going towards that a little bit, it would be because of that decision (forcing her to switch to Yugoslavia).

“This was something that really, I was very angry about and I still am to this day. It was just so disrespectful and ungrateful because my career was funded by Australia and everything that was funded he turned his back to that and made me do the same.”

There was always something that Jelena didn’t do right.

Her new book, which received praise from across the country about her brave attitude to come forward and left many fans speechless, details the incredible lengths Damir went to in berating his teenage daughter.

“The blow to the head fells me and as I lie on the floor he starts kicking me. He kicks me near my ear and my vision blurs,” an extract from the book Unbreakable recounts.

“I pass out but when I come too he makes me stand again, my head is aching. For the next round of torture he makes me stand still then he kicks me in the shin with the sharp toe dress shoes he’s wearing. “

Despite the abusive relationship Dokic told The Sunday Telegraph she has tried to mend her relationship with her father after his release in 2010 when he served one year in prison in Serbia for threatening to kill the Australian ambassador.

She says that even now he can excuse his behaviour and refuses to take responsibility for his actions.

Dokic will remain in Australia throughout the summer, returning to Melbourne Park as a television commentator during the Australian Open in January.

“If I was to see something like that on somebody else now, maybe I would react or try to help but that’s because I went through it.

“If this book can help one person, then it’s mission accomplished.”