Former world No.4 Jelena Dokic has been making it big on the ITF circuit lately, winning three straight tournaments this summer: in Romania, France and Canada. In the Vancouver final this month Dokic defeated former Top 20 player Virginie Razzano 6-1 6-4.

At the beginning of the season Dokic was ranked No.57, but later slipped to No.136. Now that the Australian has won 15 straight matches her ranking is No.82 and her win-loss record is 22-10.

Dokic will play qualifying for the US Open and I'm really excited to see how she will perform in the main draw (when she hopefully gets there). I miss the 2009 Australian Open. (via Tennis Served Fresh, photo: twenty90seven)

Jelena Dokic has launched her new website at jelenadokic.net and here is her welcome message:

The 27-year-old Dokic has direct entry to the main draw of both Roland Garros and Wimbledon. Her opponent in the first round of Roland Garros will be world No.25 Lucie Safarova. The former world No.4 Dokic played the quarterfinals of the tournament in 2002. Last year she retired with a back injury while leading world No.4 Elena Dementieva by a set and a break in the second round.

Dokic’s last tournament was this month’s $50,000 challenger in Prague where she reached the third round, and before Prague she played Indian Wells in March. The two months in-between the world No.117 spent recovering from a leg injury.

You know we love sharing photos of women's tennis players when they were kids and here's one of probably five-year-old Jelena Dokic that I came across a few days ago. It's totally her, she hasn't changed a bit in her face, although her expression seems much more troubled by worries now.

This cute kid was to become the fourth ranked singles tennis player in the world in 2002, and tenth ranked doubles player that same year. Dokic's career has been crowned by five WTA singles titles and four doubles titles. Also, she had a Wimbledon semifinal appearance in 2000, and three Grand Slam quarterfinal appearances, including the surprising one last year at the Australian Open.

Dokic is a 26-year-old now, trying to revive her tennis career. She is ranked 101st and is expected to play the GP de SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem in Fes, Morocco, starting April 26th.

Do check out our precious collection of childhood photos of other tennis stars and have fun this weekend!

Jelena Dokic will warm-up for the 2010 Australian Open, hopefully equally successful for her as the last one, at the January 8-16 Moorilla Hobart International.

At the 2009 Australian Open the former world No.4 reached the quarterfinals as a wildcard and 187th-ranked player, defeating three seeded players on the way. Since that unprecedented success Dokic hasn't made such major headlines concerning her on-court results, but she did win two ITF tournaments, in Athens (Greece) in September and Poitiers (France) in October.

The 26-year-old Dokic is currently ranked 57th. (source: Reuters, photo: Ralf Reinecke)

Our dear reader Teerin is contributing to Women's Tennis Blog once again, this time by creating a countdown of the best moments in the 2009 tennis season.

Teerin would like to have been able to include more memorable situations, but YouTube videos can't be more than 10 minutes long. Which WTA moments would you add to Teerin's Top 10? I would include the emotional retirement of Ai Sugiyama and also, I would put Kim Clijsters' US Open win on top of the list.

Teerin, thank you so much for your continuous and active support of Women's Tennis Blog.