TENNIS dad from hell Damir Dokic thinks he's the man to manage the sport's next generation of stars.
As daughter Jelena shines in Melbourne, Mr Dokic is planning a comeback of his own.
The fiery father is trying to sell his mansion and acreage in the Serbian countryside for $6 million, The Daily Telegraph reports.
He plans to use proceeds from the sale to build a tennis centre and launch new talent.
"I'll return to the successful period when I was working with Jelena and she was the fourth best player in the world," he has vowed.
Cut off from Jelena, Mr Dokic lives alone on a sprawling estate at Vrdnik, 70km north of Belgrade.
He tends to 20,000 plum and pear trees and makes his own brandy, but has apparently had enough of the quiet country life.
He wants to relocate to the nearby city of Novi Sad for his return to the world of tennis.
Mr Dokic's outbursts, which included being thrown out of the US Open after abusing staff over the price of a meal, made him one of the sport's most notorious figures.
His daughter has also revealed how his oppressive presence drove her into a deep depression from which she is only now emerging.
As Jelena has been rebuilding her life and reputation with the help of boyfriend Tin Bikic in Australia, Mr Dokic has worked on his property for the past four years.
"I'm struggling with how to help my child," he has said.
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Damir is doing well and has a new life may God bless him. I 've never believed the crap the media spews about him. I do think his parenting was too loose & liberal. Jelena's problems came from corruption, jealousy wickedness and cruelty all from within the tennis world. She's been badly mistreated by her mgmt. co; her federation etc and the key players. Recently its come from the Croatian boyfriend who is a no good parasite. This man lives on her--he doesn't work took advantage of her marital break-up & ensuing depression. Jelena has no close female friends after 15 yrs on the job. Strange eh? Jealousy women hate each other despite nobody ever talks about this side of life. Why don't they ever mention her race car driving ex-husband? Ultimately Jelena must get these people out of her life & leave tennis behind it offers her nothing but destruction.
Tennis destroyed Jelena it obvious no wants wants to tell her true story. You see in the lesbian dominated world of women's tennis it too easy to blame everything that goes wrong on a man---particularly the tennis father. I don't buy this man-hating junk. I've seen how badly the dokic woman is spoken of, and treated all within tennis circles. Not all of us are as dumb as you want to believe.
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