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Way Back Wednesday: 10 Nostalgic Pictures. Just Because.

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A while ago I stumbled across my old photobucket account, and with it many amusing, sad and iconic pictures I had long since forgotten about. I suddenly felt the burning and unshakeable urge to share these pictures (well, mostly this picture), and here we are.

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Quotable Quotes: Damir Dokic Speaks.

Last week we learnt of the nuclear bombshell that Jelena Dokic has reconciled with her father Damir Dokic. This week? The man himself has finally spoken.

“Two days ago I made 20 000 liters of rakija ( Rakija is a Serbian national drink, similar to Vodka ) and I was dead tired, I went to my sofa, almost fell asleep while watching TV when all of a sudden someone knocked on my door. I opened and saw Jelena, Savo and Tin standing there. I was shocked, couldn’t believe it, I dreamt of our meeting for years and it happened now, all in one minute. I started crying and hugging Jelena, she started crying as well. She told me she missed me much throughout these years and how she wants me to coach her again on her way back on the top.”

Sounds like something straight out of a disney movie, with volins no doubt playing in the background as Damir opened the door in slow motion to reveal his long-lost daughter.

Damir also spoke candidly about Jelena’s tennis and the state of the WTA in 2011;

“Womens tennis is now much weaker than 10 years ago and that is Jelena’s chance (to rise to top again)”

He’s certainly not wrong. Dokic rose to the top 5 in easily one of the toughest and deepest eras of all time. But although her body is fresh with her playing minimal tennis over the last 6/7 years, the fact remains that Dokic is 28 years-old now and the idea of her rising back to the top 10 at this very moment is delusional, even for Damir Dokic. Let’s just hope the this new arrangement doesn’t all end in tears. Again.

Jelena and Damir Dokic Reconcile In Serbia

Five years after she finally mustered up the courage to split from her infamous and notorious father, Serbian media is now reporting that Jelena Dokic has travelled back to Serbia to reconcile with the man who spent most of her life emotionally, and allegedly physically, abusing her. mondo.rs and Pravda;

(Dokic) arrived on Wednesday in Vrdnik along with her ​​boyfriend Tin Bikic, at the farm where her father lives. In Serbia she will try to heal the (shoulder) injury and take off excess pounds, to be in good shape at her awaited return to the field. According to some sources it is today in Vrdnik ran eight miles, in order to lose weight.

Confirmation also comes in the form of Dusan Grujic of tennis club Partizan.

Recently I spoke with Damir Dokic and he told me. Jelena arrived in the family home in Vrdnik with her boyfriend Tin Bikic, who is a good guy. Good thing that Damir accepted (them). After all that had survived the last few years for them the best we have come together as a family.

Oh loorrrrrrd (™Jelena Jankovic). We all saw and heard all Jelena’s various ‘tell-all’ interviews when she first came back into the public eye in 2009. She spoke emotionally about her father’s abuse and how she was free of him and would never return, and yet here she is back in Serbia with the monster.

The scariest thing is that the bans that Damir incurred back in the day were all short-term, and so should this whole reconciliation thing goes well, he could well attend some of Jelena’s future events. I guess we just have to hope that in the years of estrangement from his daughter, Damir has gained a bit of perspective and sanity.

And if not and Dokic Sr. does try any of his funny business, that Tin will step in and lay a smackdown on the 53 year-old’s ass. I don’t advocate violence, but he deserves it.

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