MELBOURNE, Australia — In the soaring but turbulent career of the tennis star Jelena Dokic, any highs quickly fell victim to a deeper low.
“A lot of my good memories — or what should have been good memories,” Dokic said in an interview, “have something dark behind them.”
Dokic, whose Serbian family fled war-ravaged Yugoslavia for Australia, went through many of those extremes at the Australian Open, which began here last Monday. Her last major success came with a quarterfinal run here in 2009, but it was ultimately an isolated triumph in the late stages of a tragic, trying career.