The tall, blonde Croatian will be one of a host of young stars among the 150 players from all over the world at the Caversham International LTA $25,000 women’s and $10,000 men’s tournaments at the Les Ormes Club at St Brelade, starting on Sunday.
Dokic grabbed the headlines as a 16-year-old in 1999 when she hammered world No 1 and top seed Martina Hingis 6-2, 6-0 in the first round of Wimbledon.
And the following year she lost in the semi-final to top seed Lindsay Davenport.
Two years later she was No 4 in the world and reached the quarter finals at Wimbledon.
But after injury problems, a public run-in with her father and a loss of form she has now slumped to 300th in the world.
The No 1 women’s seed is Great Britain’s Elena Baltacha – currently ranked 144 – who lost to Finland’s Emma Laine in the final of the Jersey tournament last year.
The men’s competition favourite is another Briton, Mark Hilton.
Jamie Murray, brother of the British game’s great new wizz kid Andy Murray, who lost to Roger Federer in the final of Thailand Open at the weekend, will also be playing.
The tournament is the fourth of four on the British section of the ITF Futures circuit with the other three played in cities across the UK.
The men’s qualifying tournament starts on Sunday and the women’s the following day.
And there are expected to be about eight or nine Channel Islands players among the 48 who will be competing for eight places in each of the two main draws of a tournament now in its fifth year.
