Biography
Meet Ons Jabeur, Africa’s best tennis player
Who is Ons Jabeur? Biography, Age, Tribe
Ons Jabeur is a female tennis player from Tunisia, the northernmost country in Africa.
Age
Jabeur was born on August 28, 1994. She is currently 28 years old and will be 29-year-old by August 28, 2023.
Tribe
She was born in Ksar Hellal, Tunisia, and grew up in the larger nearby coastal town of Sousse.
Religion
Ons Jabeur is a Muslim and sometimes postpones religious activities such as Ramadan during tournaments.
Family
Parents
Her parents are Samira and Ridha Jabeur. She has two older brothers, Hatem and Marwen, and an older sister, Yasmine.
Husband and children
Ons Jabeur is married to Karim Kamoun, a Russian-Tunisian former fencer who has also served as her fitness coach since mid-2017.
Career
Her mother piqued her interest in tennis at the age of three. Her mother at the time usually played for recreational purpose.
Jabeur trained under coach Nabil Mlika for ten years from ages four to thirteen.
When she was ten years old, her club did not have their own tennis courts and she could only train on courts at nearby hotels.
At twelve years old, Jabeur moved to the capital city of Tunis to train at the Lycée Sportif El Menzah, a national sport high school for the country’s up-and-coming athletes, where she stayed for several years.
She also later trained in Belgium and France starting at the age of 16.
As a junior, Jabeur represented Tunisia at the 2010 Youth Olympics in Singapore, winning two singles matches and one doubles match, the latter with Romanian Cristina Dinu.
Awards and achievements
Jabeur was the first African and Arab woman to reach the third round of a slam, the first to break into the top 50 and the first to reach a WTA final.
She has a career-high Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) ranking of world No. 2, achieved on 27 June 2022. Jabeur is the current No. 1 Tunisian player, and the highest-ranked African and Arab tennis player in WTA and ATP rankings history.
The Tunisian tennis player has won four singles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as eleven singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Circuit.
Jabeur was the runner-up at both Wimbledon and US Open in 2022, becoming the first Muslim and Arab player (male or female) to reach a Grand Slam final.
Jabeur was one of 12 players who received an International Player Grand Slam Grant from the Grand Slam Development Fund in 2017.
She won her first two career Grand Slam main-draw matches in 2017 at the French Open, where she won her first two career Grand Slam main-draw matches.
Jabeur won the 2019 Arab Woman of the Year Award in the sport category
She bagged an endorsement deal with Qatar Airways in 2020.
Net worth
Ons Jabeur’s net worth is estimated to be between $6.5 million and $11 million, according to some online reports. However, NewsWireNGR cannot independently confirm this estimation.
Controversy
Jabeur refuses champagne celebration
Jabeur, the first Arab player in history to secure a top-10 professional ranking, beat American Jessica Pegula 7-5, 0-6, 6-2 in Saturday’s final in Spain catapulting her to seventh worldwide.
Jabeur in 2022 defeated American Jessica Pegula 7-5, 0-6, 6-2 in a final in Spain to become the first African and Arab in history to secure a top-10 professional ranking, as she ranked seventh worldwide.
She however refused to partake in the champagne celebration of her victory.
Speaking to Egyptian media, Sada Al Balad, Jabeur said refused the bottle “because I’m a Muslim and out of respect for my country and Arabs watching the event”.
“I work with a staff, most of whom are from Tunisia. We must believe in ourselves as Arabs, try to work, develop and trust in our abilities to reach the highest levels.”
Disclaimer
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