Whatever is eating away at Jelena Dokic spat her out of the Australian Open.
Looking nothing like the reborn Dokic who marched to last year's quarter-finals and everything like a player battling to hold life and game together, the 26-year-old Australian exited meekly to No.26 seed from Russia Alisa Kleybanova 6-1 7-5 in their first round clash.
There were no tears, no visible tantrums.
Little emotion at all in fact, and certainly none of the kind which lifted all Australia in her heart-warming march through the Open last year.
Kleybanova had been one of Dokic's victims 12 months earlier on that journey, and it just highlighted the stark difference a year has made.
Dokic has looked out of sorts since arriving at Melbourne Park - bad body language and training court blow-ups mixed with an air rage incident which involved her entourage being quizzed by police as they flew into town.
Team Dokic's airline out of Melbourne would do well to consider the exit rows for their departure. Their mood is likely to be even darker than a few days ago.
Despite the Russian's serve wobbling badly all match, Dokic couldn't cut through.
Twice she lost her own serve in the first set, and then lost her way again with two ill-timed double faults to concede her opening service game in the second set.
Kleybanova's horrid second serve gave Dokic a sniff as she broke back to 5-5.
But the Australian coughed up another double fault on her subsequent service game to allow Kleybanova to break back, then finally serve out the match in one hour and 34 minutes.
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