Early Life
Jelena was born in Osijek, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia to a Serbian father Damir Dokić and a Croatian mother, Ljiljana. She has a younger brother, Savo, who is eight years her junior. Her family lived in Osijek till June 1991, when they decided to leave due to the civil war.
They settled in Sombor, Serbia, for a short time and later, in 1994, emigrated to Australia. From 1994, they lived in Fairfield, a suburb of Sydney, where she attended Fairfield High School.
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