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Alicia Molik is all blank stares and silences – it’s a shame we don’t even say hi these days.

‘No problem if you want to have a boyfriend. But you are going to sign everything over to me,’ he says. ‘All the money you have earned up until now and a big part of your future earnings. Then you can do whatever you want. No problem, you can go.’

I meet Enrique Bernoldi a charismatic Brazilian Formula One driver, a man who usually gets what he wants. He’s five years older than me. We exchange email. I’m wary but Enrique pursues me.

I have never had a boyfriend. I’ve never been allowed to really talk to guys.

One day, after our practice, she (Rennae Stubbs) confronts me about the physical abuse she suspects my father is dishing out. She suggests that I stay at the (Olympic) village, assuming I need to get away from him.

“I am thinking about leaving him but I am not sure how I would escape.”

Jelena is 17.

I still can’t quite fathom how it has come to this: that the better I get on the court the more he seems to lose it.

‘You are hopeless.’
‘You are a cow.’
‘You are pathetic.’
‘You are worth nothing.’

If I don’t defend him, guess what: I might actually end up in hospital.

All of a sudden, it hits me – I have lost my confidence.

‘Please come over, Dad.’

Despite all the father has done, Jelena still asks for his help. Talk about trauma 😢

‘How much money have you made?’

I hand over all the money to my father. I never put a cent from my winnings in my own pocket. That’s not how it works.