Ons Jabeur: Two-time Wimbledon runner-up announces break from professional tennis | Tennis News
The second finalist of Wimbledon Ons Jabeur announced that she was taking a break from tennis to “rediscover the joy of life” after a difficult fate in his career.
The Tunisian recently released in tears in the first round in Wimbledon while she was forced to retire injured in her match against Viktoriya Tomova.
Jabeur asserted himself as a kind of fans of fans on British soil in recent years, after having made the final at SW19 in 2022 and 2023, falling to Elena Rybakina and Marketa Vondrousova on these occasions.
The defeats would be combined with its defeat in 2022 in the United States final to fuel the painful prosecution of a title of first Pléreau, with subsequent injury problems and a decrease in the form which led to its decision to move away from the court.
“For the past two years, I pushed myself so hard, by fighting on injuries and facing many other challenges,” she said in a press release on social networks. “But basically, I didn’t really feel happy on the ground for some time now.
“Tennis is such a beautiful sport. But at the moment, I feel that it is time to step back and finally to put me first: to breathe, heal and rediscover the joy of simply living.
“Thank you to all my fans for their understanding. Your support and your love mean the world for me. I always wear it with me.
“Even if I am far from the court, I will continue to stay close and connect in different ways, and to share this trip with you all.”
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Jabeur has become a pioneer in female tennis as the first African and Arab woman to appear in a grand finale in simple, while being the best classified African and Arabic tennis player in the history of ATP and WTA Rankings when she reached n ° 2 in 2022.
She had emerged as an essential attraction on the two roads to the final of the All England club with her bold drop blows and her bag of towers.
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