Career Highlights
2002
Injury-free for the first time in 2002, she won both the doubles and singles titles in the Sarastoa Open in Florida.
Reached the quarterfinals of the French Open where she lost to Jennifer Capriati.
2001
Caused a huge stink at this year's Australian Open by renouncing her Australian citizenship in favor of a Yugoslav passport.
Won her first professional title at Rome by defeating Amelie Mauresmo, 7-6 (3), 6-1. Won in Toyko defeating Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, 6-4, 6-2. Took the title in Moscow by beating Elena Dementieva, 6-3, 6-3.
Reached the fourth round at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.
Was runner-up in Sao Paulo, Zurich and Linz.
2000
Reached the semifinals at Wimbleon becoming the first Australian woman semifinalist at Wimbledon in 20 years since Evonne
Goolagong Cawley, and the first Australian woman Grand Slam semifinalist since Nicole
Provis reached the Australian Open semifinals in 1988.
Advanced to the semifinals at the Olympics in her hometown of Sydney, Australia, before falling in the bronze-medal match to third seed Monica Seles.
Won three of her Fed Cup matches while representing Australia.
1999
Ranked No. 129, she won one of the Open Era's biggest upsets by defeating world No. 1 Martina Hingis in the first round at Wimbledon 6-2, 6-0. The victory against Hingis marked only the third time in the Open Era
that a Grand Slam women's top seed lost in the first round and the third time in
Wimbledon women's history (starting in 1884) that the top seed lost her first match (M.
Smith-1962, S. Graf-1994). Dokic also defeated ninth seed Mary Pierce in
the fourth round to reach the quarterfinals.
With teammate Mark Philippoussis, led Australia to its first Hopman Cup title.
As a wild card, reached the third round in singles and doubles of the Australian Open.
With partner Amanda Coetzer, reached her first pro doubles final at Tokyo.
1998
Finished the year as the International Tennis Federation Junior World Champion and No. 1 junior in the world in singles.
As a junior, won the U.S. Open singles title and was a French Open finalist. She also won the French Open doubles title with partner Kim Clijsters. She reached the semifinals at the Australian Open and Wimbledon.
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