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Jelena Dokic, currently world No. 177, will renew her training relationship with the Richmond Football Club's elite performance manager, Matt Hornsby.

Jelena is going to Melbourne next week to prepare for the Australian circuit. As she returned this year to the world's top 180 — and Australia's best four, she's expecting an invitation into the Australian Open wildcard play-off at Melbourne Park from December 15-21 which she can enter by virtue of her national No. 4 ranking — behind only main-draw pair Sam Stosur and Casey Dellacqua and teen Jess Moore..

Hornsby said that Jelena shed more than 10 kilograms in a strict pre-Christmas diet and fitness regimen while utilising the facilities at Punt Road last year. He expects her to arrive in far better shape than was the case 11 months ago, when she was unranked and had played just one satellite-level match during a troubled and injury-restricted season.

"It's more just consulting and helping her with her overall program in the lead-in to the summer, and then doing maybe two or three individual sessions a week, as well," Hornsby said. "Jelena wasn't someone that I had to push to train, it was always easy to train her, and so I'm happy to help her out — she was very professional the way she went about it."

Hornsby said there would be a different focus this year than during his previous two-month stretch with the former world No. 4. "Probably my first impression was, 'Geez, there's a lot of volume of work here'," Hornsby said. "She knew she was out-of-shape and that she had to do a lot of extra work to get back into shape."

"Back then, it was really just trying to manage her program in a way that would maximise her weight loss and physical gains and still allow her to have the energy to play, whereas this time around, from the contact I've had, she's had a pretty good season in terms of being physically in reasonable shape and continuity of training and playing."

"So it's more just the specifics of training leading into the summer. There will be some specific strength-based work, but most of physical work is done on court, so it's just managing the overall program, that she's not doing too much, which can tend to be an issue with her, just too much volume of training."

(source The Age, photo/Australian Open website)