Former tennis star Jelena Dokic has been reduced to tears while recalling a time when she was booed by Australian fans.

After winning the Hopman Cup for Australia in 1999 (with Mark Philippoussis) and playing for Australia at the 2000 Olympics, Dokic’s abusive father, Damir, made her reject her adopted country and represent Yugoslavia (she was born in Croatia).

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Still just a teenager, that news became public in 2001 and Dokic has now opened up on the moment she was booed off court at the Australian Open.

Speaking on the Carrie & Tommy Show, a highly emotional Dokic said: “I would take 100 years of abuse if I could take back not playing for Australia for a few years.

“He took away from me, something that I loved so much.

“He took that away from me in that moment.

“He’s sitting in a hotel room watching this while I’m getting booed by 15,000 people.

“I just wanted to kind of drop into the ground and disappear and never come back.

“I would take any abuse, anything in this world to not even just go through that personally, but that it didn’t take my people, Australians and my fans and everyone that always cheered for me, that it didn’t take 10 or 15 years until my book came out for them to know the truth and just how much I really love Australia.”

Dokic’s book Unbreakable, has now been made into a documentary.

And while promoting the film, she has made several raw and heartbreaking admissions about her past and her father.

The 41-year-old said she came to Australia when she was 11 and “loved” it.

“I loved representing Australia. I loved team events. Everything that had to do with team events, I always won. I had like a 99 per cent win rate. There’s a reason for that,” she said.

“Fed Cup, Hopman Cup that I won with Mark Philippoussis. I loved it and I thrived playing in Australia and at the Australian Open.

“He (Damir) took that away from me for those few years. I wanted to come back earlier but I was worried about people’s reaction, even though I did come back three, four years later.

“Everyone did embrace me when I did come back but people still had doubts. They didn’t look at me as someone who was this patriotic Australian, and it hurt me because I was.

“I really accepted this country. I always say, I was born in a different country but I am Australian. I always looked at myself that way. I love Australia. I love my fans so much.

“It doesn’t matter what match it was, every time you would hear from the crowd,’ Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi’ when I was playing, I would literally get goosebumps.”