The volatile Damir Dokic has threatened to bomb the Australian embassy in Belgrade, according to published reports.

The latest bizarre chapter in the continuing saga of Damir Dokic, Jelena Dokic's controversial father,  is unfolding as Mr. Dokic has threatened to attack the embassy with a grenade launcher, the Serbian daily Blic reports. Mr. Dokic, who lives in Serbia and is estranged from his daughter, confirmed the threat when contacted by Blic.

The senior Dokic was livid after Jelena conceded her father had physically abused her in an interview with Sport&Style Magazine.

"I've been through a lot worse than anybody on the tour. I can say that with confidence," Jelena told the magazine. "When you go through stuff like that, playing a tennis match is a pretty easy thing to do. When I win today it's so much more satisfying."

The domineering Damir Dokic, who has made outrageous claims in the past, has also made prior threats and once claimed his daughter had been kidnapped by her boyfriend, Tino Bikic, and coach, Borna Bikic. The allegation was untrue, but Mr. Dokic was quoted as advocating the kidnapping of his own daughter.

"Quite literarily, she should be kidnapped to save her from her boyfriend and her coach (the Bikic brothers)," Damir Dokic said in comments reprinted by the AAP in 2006. "The two of them are people of dubious moral and professional standards. I want WTA to ask for additional psychiatric and doping tests for my daughter to confirm whether she uses illegal substances. She was the fourth player in the world and look where is she now on the WTA list. This happened because she stopped having a relationship with her family."

Widely regarded as one of the top teenage prospects in the world after moving to Sydney, Australia from Serbia when she was 11, Dokic soon found herself receiving as much media attention for her father's antics off the court than for her play on the court. Damir Dokic was arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct after being ejected from a grass-court tournament in Birmingham, England in 2002 and protesting his ejection by lying down in a busy street in front of the tournament.

An allegedly drunken Damir Dokic was kicked out of Wimbledon in 2000 after a nonsensical tirade in which he allegedly made disparaging remarks about the royal family and made a lewd gesture at a female observing his outburst before grabbing a journalist's cell phone and smashing it to the ground. Despite her father's volatile outbursts, Jelena Dokic reached the Wimbledon semifinals before falling to Lindsay Davenport. Two months after his Wimbledon outburst, the former boxer battled security at the U.S. Open. Upset at what he perceived as the high cost of a $10 piece of salmon (despite the fact that he used free food vouchers to pay for his meal at no cost), Damir Dokic berated a server in the player's restaurant, argued loudly with U.S. Open security staff and was finally escorted off the grounds at Flushing Meadows and banned from the Open for the duration of the tournament. At a press conference outside his hotel the next day, Damir Dokic blasted then-WTA Tour CEO Bart McGuire, calling him a "communist." The WTA subsequently suspended Mr. Dokic from the Tour for six months.

Jelena tried to distance herself from her domineering father in 2002 when she banned her parents from the player area at the the Generali Ladies Linz tournament in Linz, Austria and retained her own security staff in an apparent effort to provide her protection from her father.

Jelena, who reached a career-high rank of No. 4 in August of 2002, made an inspired run to the Australian Open quarterfinals in January. Dokic's comeback from depression, a fractured family relationship and near ranking oblivion captivated the nation.

Dokic's three-set loss to the third-ranked Safina — her fifth three-set match of the tournament — drew 3.2 million viewers in Australia.

"To come after a three‑year layoff and to be in the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam straightaways really gives you a lot confidence," Dokic said after the match. "When I get my match fitness back to my 100 percent and physically and still mentally to improve and get stronger, I think — we see there's a lot of seeds falling. Maybe I can have a chance to do even better at a Grand Slam."