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Dokic, who reached world number four in August 2002, has slumped to 105th following a series of injuries and a bitter split with her coach dad Damir.

But the Vecernje Novosti daily reported on Tuesday the pair have reunited.

"I'm starting from zero. I still have two-three months until the first tournaments (of 2005) and I'll try hard to recover my old form," Dokic said.

Dokic started her professional career as a 14-year-old representing Australia, where her family emigrated in 1994.

But she continues to hold dual citizenship and currently lives in Belgrade.

Jelena Dokic profile

At Wimbledon in 1999, as a qualifier ranked 129th, she scored the Open era's biggest upset when she defeated then world number one Martina Hingis in the first round on her way to the quarter-finals.

A year later she became the first woman representing Australia to reach the semi-finals of Wimbledon since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1980.

But her career has been plagued by distractions provided by her father, a former boxer who has repeatedly clashed with journalists and tennis officials around the world.

In 2000 he was barred from Wimbledon after breaking a reporter's mobile phone, and later that year was banned for six months from WTA events for abusive behaviour at the US Open.