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| Native name | أنس جابر | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country (sports) | Tunisia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Sousse, Tunisia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1994-08-28)28 August 1994 (age 31) Ksar Hellal, Tunisia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turned pro | 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Issam Jellali | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prize money | US $14,303,928[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Singles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Career record | 460–261 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Career titles | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 2 (27 June 2022) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current ranking | No. 79 (10 November 2025) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Grand Slam singles results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Australian Open | QF (2020) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| French Open | QF (2023,2024) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wimbledon | F (2022,2023) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| US Open | F (2022) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other tournaments | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tour Finals | RR (2022,2023) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Olympic Games | 1R (2012,2016,2020) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Career record | 35–33 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Career titles | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 116 (3 February 2020) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current ranking | No. 261 (10 November 2025) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Grand Slam doubles results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Australian Open | 3R (2020) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wimbledon | 1R (2019) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| US Open | 2R (2019) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team competitions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fed Cup | 37–13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Last updated on: 10 November 2025. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ons Jabeur[a] (born 28 August 1994) is a Tunisian inactive professionaltennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking by theWTA of No. 2, achieved on 27 June 2022, making her the highest-ranked African and Arab tennis player in WTA and ATP rankings' history. Jabeur has won five singles titles onWTA Tour, including aWTA 1000 event at the2022 Madrid Open, and has been runner-up at threemajors. She is the first African and Arab woman to contest a major singles final.
Jabeur was first exposed to tennis by her mother at three years old. She became professional in her teenage years when she reached two junior major girls' singles finals at the French Open in 2010 and 2011, winning the latter and becoming the first African or Arab to win a junior major since 1964. After nearly a decade of playing primarily at the ITF level, she started competing more regularly on the WTA Tour in 2017. At the2020 Australian Open, Jabeur became the first Arab woman to reach a major quarterfinal, a feat she repeated at the2021 Wimbledon Championships. She became the first Arab woman to win a WTA Tour title at the2021 Birmingham Classic. Jabeur then elevated her level in the summer of 2022, winning the 2022 Madrid Open for her biggest title, followed by two successive major finals atWimbledon and theUS Open. Reaching the world No. 2 position, she reached the Wimbledon final againthe next year, before injury and form struggles led to declining results.
Jabeur's achievements are credited with raising the profile of tennis across the African continent.[3] She won the Arab Woman of the Year award in 2019.
Ons Jabeur was born to Samira and Ridha Jabeur inKsar Hellal, a small town inTunisia, on 28 August 1994.[4] She grew up in the larger nearby coastal city ofSousse.[5] Jabeur has two older brothers, Hatem and Marwen, and an older sister, Yasmine.[4][6] Her mother played tennis recreationally and introduced her to the sport at the age of three.[7] Jabeur trained under coach Nabil Mlika for ten years from ages four to thirteen, originally starting to work with him at a tennis promotion centre at her school. When she was ten years old, her club did not have its own tennis courts and she could only train on courts at nearby hotels.[8] At twelve years old, Jabeur moved to the capital city ofTunis 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.[5]
She also later trained in Belgium and France starting at the age of 16.[5][8] Jabeur credits her parents for the sacrifices they made while raising her, saying, "My parents sacrificed a lot of things – my mom used to drive me everywhere around Tunisia to go play the tournaments, and she encouraged me to go to a special school to study. That was a big sacrifice to see her little girl going for a dream that, honestly, wasn't 100% guaranteed. She believed in me and gave me the confidence to be there."[7]
Jabeur began playing on theITF Junior Circuit in August 2007 on the week of her 13th birthday. With compatriotNour Abbès, she won the doubles event of her debut tournament, the Grade 5 Al Fatah ITF Junior Tournament in Lebanon. She defeated Abbès to win her first Grade 5 singles event at the 2009 Fujairah ITF Junior Tennis Championships in the United Arab Emirates, where she also won the doubles event with Abbès. Later in the year, she started to have more success at higher-level tournaments, finishing runner-up at the Grade 2 International Junior Championships of Morocco and winning the Grade 2 Smash International Junior Championships in Egypt, both in singles. She made her junior major debut at the2009 US Open, losing her opening match toLaura Robson.[9][10]
Jabeur started to produce strong results at the juniormajors and other Grade A events in May 2010. In the doubles event at theTrofeo Bonfiglio, she partnered with Charlène Seateun to reach the semifinals. Two weeks later, she played the2010 French Open and upset third seedIrina Khromacheva in the semifinals before finishing runner-up toElina Svitolina. She also performed well atWimbledon, reaching the quarterfinals in singles and the semifinal in doubles. She lost toYulia Putintseva in singles, and Khromacheva and Svitolina in doubles alongsideMonica Puig. Putintseva defeated Jabeur again at theUS Open. Jabeur entered the doubles event with Putintseva and lost in the quarterfinals to Khromacheva again, who had partnered withDaria Gavrilova.[9][10] Following the US Open, Jabeur had left wrist surgery in November that kept her out for five months until April 2011.[4]
The last two singles events of Jabeur's junior career were the2011 French Open and the2011 Wimbledon Championships. At theFrench Open, she won her only junior major title to become the first North African woman to win a junior Grand Slam tournament. As the ninth seed, she upset top seed Daria Gavrilova in the quarterfinals, third seedCaroline Garcia in the semifinals, and then fifth seed Monica Puig in the final.[11] This title helped her rise toNo. 4 in the world in the junior rankings.[12] She also became the first Arab girl to win a junior major singles title in history, and the first junior in general sinceIsmail El Shafei won the Wimbledon boys' title in1964.[5] Jabeur also entered the doubles event at the Grade 1 Junior International Roehampton, which she won while partnering withAshleigh Barty.[9][10]
Jabeur began playing on theITF Women's Circuit in 2008 at the age of 14. In October 2009, she finished runner-up in both singles and doubles at a 10k tournament inMonastir near her hometown, losing toElise Tamaëla in both events. She won her first title in singles in May 2010 in Antalya, Turkey. She then won the singles and doubles events at another 10k tournament in Casablanca, Morocco two months later.[13][14]
After having left wrist surgery at the end of the year and winning a junior major title,[4] Jabeur moved up to the 25k and 50k levels in the summer of 2011.[13] She made herWTA Tour main-draw debut at the age of 17 as awildcard at the Premier 5Qatar Ladies Open in February 2012, where she lost her first career match to No. 103Virginie Razzano, in three sets. She was also given a wildcard into the qualifying competition at theDubai Tennis Championships the following week. Although she did not qualify, she upset world No. 33Zheng Jie with a ranking of No. 1169.[15] Jabeur did not have much success at the ITF Circuit in 2012, only reaching one final, which came in singles and was her first at the $25k level.[13][14] She also entered qualifying at theFrench Open, but only won one match.[15] Jabeur finished the year ranked No. 260 in the world.[16]
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After a slow start to 2013, Jabeur won her first 25k title in April 2013 inTunis. She then won back-to-back 50k titles overAn-Sophie Mestach in Japan in May to bring her into the top 200 for the first time.[13][16][17] In July, Jabeur played in her second WTA tournament main draw at theBaku Cup. She upset top seed, defending champion, and world No. 37,Bojana Jovanovski, in the second round before losing in the quarterfinals toMagda Linette.[18] She entered the qualifying competitions atWimbledon and theUS Open, losing her opening match in both events. A third 50k title at theSaguenay Challenger with a win in the final overCoCo Vandeweghe took her to a new career-high of 139.[16][19]In 2014, she played the main draw in theMalaysian Open losing toGiulia Gatto-Monticone in the first round.[20]
Jabeur stayed inside the top 200 for most of the next three years, but could not enter the top 100, reaching a career-best ranking of 118 in 2015.[16] She continued to play a mix of ITF and WTA events but played primarily at the ITF level.[15] Her only ITF title in 2014 came at a 25k event in Tunis, and she did not win any titles in 2015.[13] She finished runner-up twice in 2014, with the higher-level result coming at the $50kOpen Nantes Atlantique, losing toKateřina Siniaková. After losing in qualifying at theFrench Open andWimbledon, Jabeur qualified for two major main draws in a row at the2014 US Open and the2015 Australian Open. She lost her opening matches at both tournaments to No. 19Andrea Petkovic andVera Zvonareva, respectively. With no titles, finals, or semifinals in 2015,[15] her year-end ranking dropped to No. 210.[16] Jabeur rebounded with two $25k titles in January 2016. A $50k title at theNana Trophy in Tunis helped her return to the top 200 for all but one week through the rest of the season.[16][21] Nonetheless, she lost in qualifying at bothWimbledon and theUS Open and did not have a strong second half of the season.[15] She finished the year at No. 193.[16]
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Jabeur participated in all four major singles events in 2017 for the first time. After losing in the last round of qualifying at theAustralian Open, she reached theFrench Open main draw as alucky loser, theWimbledon main draw as a qualifier, and theUS Open main draw as a direct acceptance.[15] She began to rise back up the rankings at the Premier-levelDubai Tennis Championships, where she qualified for the main draw and upset world No. 22,Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, in the first round.[22] This result brought her from No. 171 to No. 137.[16]
After moderate success at the 60k level,[15] Jabeur's next big breakthrough came at the French Open. As a lucky loser, she won two main-draw matches, including an upset of world No. 7,Dominika Cibulková, in the second round for her first top-10 victory. She lost in the third round toTimea Bacsinszky.[23][24] At the end of July, she made her top-100 debut.[16] Her only other Grand Slam main-draw match-win of the year was a first-round win over American wildcardBrienne Minor at the US Open,[25] which cemented her place in the top 100 for the rest of the year.[16]
Jabeur fell out of the top 100 in February 2018.[16] She did not win her first match of the year until she reached the quarterfinals at the 60kSpace Coast Pro Classic in April.[15][26] After she lost in qualifying at theFrench Open, she dropped down to No. 180 in the world.[16] Jabeur regained some of her ranking points when she won her first 100k title at theManchester Trophy,[27] bringing her back to No. 133.[16]
With this title, she also earned a wildcard into the main draw atWimbledon.[28] She won her only Grand Slam main-draw match of the year at Wimbledon overViktorija Golubic, who she defeated for the third time in the span of a month.[15] Jabeur ended her season with the best result of her career to date. As a qualifier at the Premier-levelKremlin Cup, she finished runner-up to world No. 14,Daria Kasatkina.[29] She defeated three top-25 players in the tournament, including No. 8Sloane Stephens and No. 11Anastasija Sevastova.[30] With this result, she returned to the top 100 at a career-high of No. 62 in the world.[16]
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Jabeur played all four major main draws for the first time in 2019, and stayed in the top 100 the entire year.[16] She lost in the first round at the first three Grand Slam tournaments of the season, and did not win multiple main draw matches at any tournaments until after theFrench Open in May.[15] Jabeur had a better second half of the season. She reached the semifinals at the Premier-levelEastbourne International, where she upset home favourite and world No. 19,Johanna Konta.[31] She withdrew before the semifinal due to a right ankle injury.[32]
Jabeur's next big result came at theUS Open. She defeated No. 27Caroline Garcia and thenAliaksandra Sasnovich to reach the third round at a Grand Slam tournament for the second time in her career. She lost a tight three-set match to world No. 3,Karolína Plíšková, in the third round.[33] With this success, she reached a career-high ranking of No. 51.[16] The only other tournament of the year where Jabeur won multiple main-draw matches was theTianjin Open in October. She defeated three players including No. 36Yulia Putintseva, before losing toRebecca Peterson in her second semifinal of the year.[15][34]
Jabeur had a major breakthrough at theAustralian Open. After defeating Johanna Konta and Caroline Garcia in the first two rounds, she beatCaroline Wozniacki in three sets in the last match of Wozniacki's career.[35] Jabeur defeated a fourth top 50 player in succession inWang Qiang before losing to eventual championSofia Kenin in the quarterfinals.[36][37] With this result, she made her top-50 debut,[16] and also became the first Arab woman to reach a Grand Slam quarterfinal.[38]
The following month, Jabeur continued her progress after receiving two wildcards to both Premier tournaments in the Middle East. She held a match point against No. 2,Simona Halep, in a second-round loss atDubai.[39] She then reached the quarterfinals at theQatar Ladies Open, where she upset world No. 3, Karolína Plíšková, in the third round.[40] After the COVID-19 season suspension, Jabeur continued her good form at a major level by reaching the third round of theUS Open and the fourth round of theFrench Open for the first time in her career.[citation needed] She finished the year as world No. 31, her highest year-end ranking thus far.[citation needed]
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Jabeur participated in both tournaments of theCharleston Open, reaching the semifinal at theVolvo Car Open, and the final of the second, theMUSC Health Women's Open, which she lost to AustralianAstra Sharma. She reached a career-high ranking of world No. 24 on 10 May 2021. Seeded 25th at theFrench Open, she took her revenge by defeating Sharma to advance to the third round of a major for a sixth straight time.[41] She also defeated Magda Linette to reach the fourth round for a second time at this major where she lost to 24th seedCoco Gauff.[42] Seeded second, Jabeur reached the third final in her career and made history as the first Arab woman to win a WTA Tour title at theBirmingham Classic by defeating Daria Kasatkina.[43][44] At the same tournament, partnering withEllen Perez, Jabeur also reached her first doubles final, losing toMarie Bouzková andLucie Hradecká.
AtWimbledon, Jabeur, seeded 21st, defeated five-time championVenus Williams to become the first Tunisian tennis player, first Arab woman, and the first woman representing an African country sinceCara Black from Zimbabwe in 2005, to reach the third round (or quarterfinals) at Wimbledon. This also marked her seventh consecutive third-round appearance at a major.[45] She continued her run when, despite vomiting at the side of the court when at match point, she defeated former Wimbledon champion and 11th seed,Garbiñe Muguruza, to reach the fourth round, coming back from a set down to reach the second week and round of 16 for the first time.[46]
The day before, Tunisian supporters who flocked to Wimbledon burst into song — the national soccer team song, because there isn't one for tennis — and shouted her name after her fourth-round victory over 2020 French Open championIga Świątek.[47] She defeated seventh seed Iga Świątek (making another comeback from the first set down) to reach the quarterfinals,[48] where she lost to second seed and also first-time quarterfinalistAryna Sabalenka. As a result, she recorded a career-high ranking of No. 22, on 26 July 2021.[49]
To begin theUS Open Series, Jabeur played theCanadian Open seeded 13th, beatingClara Burel, Daria Kasatkina, and defending championBianca Andreescu before losing in the quarterfinals toJessica Pegula in three sets.[50][51] With this result, she made her top 20 debut the week of 16 August 2021. AtIndian Wells, Jabeur reached her firstWTA 1000 semifinal by defeatingAnett Kontaveit in the quarterfinals.[52][53] With the win, she propelled herself into a career-high ranking, becoming the first Arab tennis player to reach the top 10 in eitherATP or WTA rankings history.[54] After the withdrawal ofEmma Raducanu from the exhibition eventWorld Tennis Championship, Jabeur was given her place. She won the tournament, defeatingBelinda Bencic in the final.[55]
Jabeur started her season at theSydney International. She defeatedAstra Sharma in the first round and Petra Kvitová in the second round before losing to Anett Kontaveit in the quarterfinals. She subsequently withdrew from theAustralian Open due to a back injury sustained in the Sydney tournament.[56] In February, Jabeur played theDubai Championships, where she defeated former world No. 2, Vera Zvonareva andJessica Pegula, before falling to former No. 1, Simona Halep in the quarterfinals. She then entered theQatar Ladies Open. After a first round bye, she defeatedAliaksandra Sasnovich andTereza Martincová before falling to Kontaveit again in the quarterfinals.[57]
At theIndian Wells Open, Jabeur received a bye into the second round where she was upset byDaria Saville in three sets. She reached the fourth round at theMiami Open, falling to 2022 Australian Open finalistDanielle Collins in straight sets. Jabeur reached her first final of the year at theCharleston Open, where she fell to Belinda Bencic in three sets.[58] InStuttgart, she was defeated byPaula Badosa in the quarterfinals.[59] Seeded eighth at theMadrid Open, the world No. 10 reached her first WTA 1000 final, besting Belinda Bencic and Simona Halep, before defeatingEkaterina Alexandrova in the semifinals to become the first Arab player to reach a final at this level.[60][61] She defeated Jessica Pegula in the final to become the first African player to win a WTA 1000 title, the ninth different winner at the Madrid Open and the 38th different winner in a WTA 1000 tournament (since 2009).[62][63][64]At theItalian Open, she reached her second consecutive WTA 1000 final, defeating Sorana Cîrstea,Ajla Tomljanović, Yulia Putintseva, and fourth seed Maria Sakkari, before saving a match point in the semifinals against Daria Kasatkina for her 11th straight win.[65] In the final, she lost to Iga Świątek in straight sets.[66] By reaching the final at the Italian Open, Jabeur set a career-high ranking of world No. 6, on 16 May 2022.[citation needed] After having an excellent clay-court season, she then participated in theFrench Open, where she drew Magda Linette in the first round. She was shockingly defeated by Linette, after having a set and a break lead in the second set. Despite this, she reached a career-high ranking of world No. 4, on 6 June 2022, following the conclusion of the tournament.[citation needed]
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As the top seed, she won theGerman Open in Berlin after Belinda Bencic retired in the second set of the final. As a result, she moved to a new career-high ranking of world No. 3, on 20 June 2022.[67][68] Jabeur initially entered theEastbourne International singles draw seeded second, but withdrew before the tournament.[69] Jabeur remained in thedoubles draw as a wildcard, in which she partnered withSerena Williams, who was playing her first tournament since2021 Wimbledon.[70] Jabeur and Williams won their first-round match against Marie Bouzková andSara Sorribes Tormo to set up a quarterfinal againstShuko Aoyama andChan Hao-ching.[71] They then reached the semifinals but Jabeur withdrew before their match with Magda Linette andAleksandra Krunić citing a right knee injury.[72] She achieved a new career-high in the singles rankings of world No. 2, on 27 June 2022, which was the highest-ranking for any African and Arab tennis player in WTA and ATP rankings history.[73][74]
InLondon, she reached her second consecutive Wimbledon quarterfinal, defeatingMirjam Björklund,Katarzyna Kawa,Diane Parry and 24th seedElise Mertens. Defeating Marie Bouzková in the quarterfinal, she became the first Arab or North African woman ever to reach the semifinals of a major tournament.[75][76][77] After that, she defeatedTatjana Maria to reach her maiden final at a major, which made her the first African woman, and the first Arab or North African player, in theOpen Era to enter a Grand Slam singles final.[78][79] In the final, she lost toElena Rybakina in three sets. Despite this, Wimbledon did not receive points due to athletes representing Russia and Belarus beingbanned from the tournament because ofRussia's invasion of Ukraine.[80]
Leading up to the US Open during the North American summer, Jabeur lost in the second round at theSilicon Valley Classic and retired in her first round match againstZheng Qinwen at theCanadian Open. At theCincinnati Open, Jabeur lost in the second round to Petra Kvitová, in three sets.[81] At theUS Open, she regained her form, advancing to the quarterfinals for the first time at this major defeating 31st seedShelby Rogers, and then 18th seedVeronika Kudermetova in straight sets to record her first victory over the Russian in four meetings. She became the third African woman to make it into the quarterfinals of theUS Open in the Open era – and the first from the northern part of the continent. The other African women to reach the US Open quarterfinals areMaryna Godwin (1968) andAmanda Coetzer (1994, 1996 and 1998), both from South Africa.[82] However, although she eventually managed to reach the final (making her the first African woman and the first Arab woman to do so),[83] she lost against Iga Świątek, in straight sets. Unlike Wimbledon, Jabeur received 1,300 points in the tournament.[84]
Jabeur recorded her first win at a WTA Tour event in Africa againstAnn Li at the inaugural edition of the WTA 250 tennis tournament inMonastir, which she helped start in her home country.[85][86] She was eventually defeated byClaire Liu in the quarterfinals.[87] Jabeur made her debut at theWTA Finals in Fort Worth.[88][89] She defeated Jessica Pegula in her second match of the group stage in three sets.[90] However, she finished her campaign in the round-robin stage as she lost two out of her three matches against Aryna Sabalenka and Maria Sákkari, respectively.[91] She ended the best season of her career ranked No. 2 in the WTA rankings.[citation needed]
She started the year with two victories against Sorana Cîrstea and Ukrainian qualifierMarta Kostyuk inAdelaide International 1. She was defeated in the semifinals by 18-year old qualifierLinda Nosková, 102nd in the world, in three sets. In mid-January, she competed in theAustralian Open and, defeatingTamara Zidanšek in three sets,[92] she came up against Markéta Vondroušová.[93] After an absence for a right knee injury which was treated by surgery, she returned to the circuit in March atIndian Wells, but lost in the third round against Vondroušová, after beatingMagdalena Fręch. She fell in the first round of Miami the following week, beaten by Russian qualifierVarvara Gracheva.
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In April, she won theCharleston Open by defeating in the final Belinda Bencic,[94] taking her revenge for the previous year loss in the final. She reached the final without losing a set, with wins overLesia Tsurenko,Caroline Dolehide,Anna Kalinskaya and Daria Kasatkina.[95] She took part in the Stuttgart Grand Prix two weeks later and took out former Roland Garros winner Jeļena Ostapenko andBeatriz Haddad Maia but had to retire in the semifinal against top seed Iga Świątek, after three games due to a left calf injury. This injury also forced her to give up defending her title at theMadrid Open. She returned to theItalian Open but lost in the first match against former world No. 2, Paula Badosa.
AtRoland Garros, she eliminated the ItalianLucia Bronzetti, the localOcéane Dodin, the last Frenchwoman in the running, andOlga Danilović, both out of the top 100 to join as in 2020 and 2021 the round of 16 Porte d'Auteuil. She finds the AmericanBernarda Pera, a novice at this stage. She dismisses her and goes to the quarterfinals for the first time in her career in the tournament. Against Haddad Maia, the match was more complicated and she was overthrown after a long duel.[96][97]
As defending champion inBerlin, she lost in the first round against the German qualifierJule Niemeier, and in the second round inEastbourne, she was beaten by Camila Giorgi. AtWimbledon, Jabeur managed to eliminate four Grand Slam champions on her way to the final including Bianca Andreescu in the third round, Petra Kvitová in the fourth, defending champion Elena Rybakina in the quarterfinals, and world No. 2, Aryna Sabalenka, in the semifinals.[98] However, she lost in straight sets to world No. 42, Markéta Vondroušová in the final, which she described as the "most painful loss" in her career.[99]
She won her fifth title defeatingDiana Shnaider in the final of the2023 Ningbo Open.[100]
At theAustralian Open, Jabeur lost in the second round for a second consecutive year, this time to the 16-year oldMirra Andreeva who was making her tournament debut and ranked No. 47 at the time. This was also Andreeva's first top-10 win in her career.[101][102]
At theFrench Open, she reached the quarterfinals for a second consecutive time, with wins over wildcardSachia Vickery,[103]Camila Osorio,[104] 31st seedLeylah Fernandez[105] andClara Tauson.[106] She lost to third seedCoco Gauff.[107]
At the beginning of the grass season, as the top seed, she reached also the quarterfinals at theNottingham Open with a win over qualifierLinda Fruhvirtová.[108] Seeded eight, she reached a third quarterfinal in a row at theBerlin Open, with wins over qualifierWang Xinyu[109] andLinda Nosková.[110]
She went out in the third round ofWimbledon, losing to Elina Svitolina.[111] Jabeur withdrew from theUS Open due to a shoulder injury.[112] The same injury forced her to pull out of theChina Open in September[113] when she also announced she would end her season early and indicated she intended to return to the court in Australia in 2025.[114]
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Jabeur made her comeback at theAustralian Open, securing wins over Anhelina Kalinina[115] andCamila Osorio,[116] before losing to eighth seedEmma Navarro in the third round.[117]
In February, she reached back-to-back quarterfinals defeating seventh seed Jeļena Ostapenko[118] and qualifierWakana Sonobe[119] to reach the last eight at theAbu Dhabi Open, where her run was ended by top seed Elena Rybakina,[120] and overcoming seventh seed Zheng Qinwen[121] and wildcard entrantSofia Kenin[122] to make it through to the same stage at theQatar Ladies Open, where it was Jeļena Ostapenko who eliminated her.[123]
Jabeur went out in the first round at both theFrench Open[124] andWimbledon.[125]
In July, Jabeur announced she was taking an indefinite break from professional tennis, saying she had not "felt happy on court for some time" and it was time "to take a step back."[126][127]
On 10 November, Jaber announced her pregnancy and that she was expecting her first child.[128][129]
Jabeur represented Tunisia at theJunior Fed Cup in 2009 alongside Nour Abbès and Sonia Daggou. The team finished third place in their round robin group that also includedMexico,China, andGermany. Although Jabeur lost all three of her singles rubbers, Tunisia won their tie against Mexico after Abbès won her singles match and Jabeur teamed up with Abbès to win the decisive doubles rubber. Tunisia finished in 11th place out of 16 teams overall, losing their first 9th-to-12th place tie to Indonesia, but winning their second 9th-to-12th place tie against Australia. Jabeur and Abbès won both singles rubbers in that last tie.[9][10]
Jabeur made her seniorFed Cup debut forTunisia in 2011, representing the team from 2011 to 2013, and again from 2016 through 2019. She has played in 29 ties, compiling an overall record of 32–11 split between 24–5 in singles and 8–6 in doubles.[130] Her 24 singles wins are tied withSelima Sfar for the most in Tunisia Fed Cup history.[131] When Jabeur debuted for Tunisia, they were in Europe/Africa Zone Group III. They were promoted to Zone Group II for 2013 after winning all five of their round robin ties and a play-off tie againstIreland in 2012. They were again promoted to Zone Group I for 2014 the following year, winning a play-off tie overLithuania. However, Tunisia ultimately did not participate in the Fed Cup in 2014 or 2015,[130][131] which was concurrent with Tunisia's one-year ban fromDavis Cup that resulted from their federation requiringMalek Jaziri to default a match to an Israeli player.[132]
When Tunisia returned to Fed Cup in 2016, they were again placed in Zone Group III. They did not manage to win their round robin groups in 2016 or 2017, losing ties toGreece andLuxembourg in 2016 and thenFinland andMalta in 2017. Tunisia again won their round robin group again in 2018, after which they defeated Lithuania to win promotion to Zone Group II in 2019. They did not win their round robin group in 2019, keeping them in Zone Group II for 2020. Jabeur won all of her singles rubbers when the team was promoted in 2012, 2013, and 2018.[130][131]
As a junior, Jabeur also represented Tunisia at the2010 Youth Olympics in Singapore, winning two singles matches and one doubles match, the latter with RomanianCristina Dinu. She was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Chinese playerZheng Saisai in both competitions.[9][10] Jabeur also represented Tunisia in singles at theLondon Olympics in 2012, theRio de Janeiro Olympic Games in 2016, and theTokyo Olympic Games in 2021. She lost her 2012 opening round match toSabine Lisicki in three sets.[133] She also lost her 2016 opening round match in three sets, this time toDaria Kasatkina. She had a chance to serve for the match in the second set against Kasatkina, but was broken.[134] In Tokyo, she facedCarla Suárez Navarro in the first round of thesingles tournament, but lost in straight sets.[135][136]
Jabeur builds her style of play around variety and hitting what she refers to as "crazy shots".[137] She tries to employ difficult shots because that is how she enjoys playing tennis.[7] She likes to utilize slice and drop shots in particular.[4] Jabeur can hit winners in a variety of ways, including backhanddrop shots from the baseline orforehands up the line.[138] She likes to play on any surface.[4]
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As a junior, Jabeur was coached by Nabil Mlika until she was thirteen years old.[8] Jabeur began working with Bertrand Perret in February 2018.
She viewed Perret as being more supportive of her style of play than her past coaches, saying, "I think he understands my game. He tries to improve my good shots, not change what I do. I've worked with a lot of coaches who tried to change my game ... Bertrand encourages me to do dropshots and also corrects my dropshots, instead of other coaches who told me not to do dropshots at all."[7] In early 2020, Jabeur switched coaches toIssam Jellali, a former TunisianDavis Cup player with whom she had already been working for about three years.[139]
Jabeur is a Muslim.[140] She occasionally has to postpone certain practices expected forRamadan during tournaments.[141] She is married to Karim Kamoun, a Russian-Tunisian[citation needed] former fencer who has been her fitness coach since mid-2017.[5] In November 2025, Jabeur announced that is pregnant and that her baby will birth in the spring of 2026.[142]
Jabeur was one of 12 players who received an International Player Grand Slam Grant from the Grand Slam Development Fund in 2017 immediately before theFrench Open, where she won her first two career Grand Slam main-draw matches.[143]
Jabeur won the 2019Arab Woman of the Year Award in the sport category, having reached the third round of the US Open and established herself as a permanent fixture in the top 100 that year.[7] Jabeur is close friends with fellow tennis playerTatjana Maria, whom she defeated in the semifinals of the2022 Wimbledon Championships, describing her as her "barbecue buddy".[144][76]
Jabeur appears in the tennis docuseriesBreak Point, which premiered on Netflix on 13 January 2023.[145]
In June 2015, Jabeur signed a partnership contract with Qatar National Bank Tunisia.[146] In 2018, she became an ambassador of HAVAL belonging to the automotive manufacturer Great Wall Motor through Atlas Auto, its distributor in Tunisia, then was sponsored in the same year by the Joossoor group, chaired by businessman Moez Driss.[147] She began being endorsed byQatar Airways in 2020.[148] In December 2020, she began being sponsored by the Tunisian telecommunications operatorTunisie Télécom.[149] In February 2022, she signed a sponsorship contract with Talan, an innovation consulting firm.[150]
She has signed with Evolve,[151] a sports management agency founded by four-time Grand Slam championNaomi Osaka.
On 25 August 2023, Jabeur purchased a minority stake inNational Women's Soccer League clubNorth Carolina Courage, becoming the second professional tennis player to do so afterNaomi Osaka.[152]
| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | DNQ | A | NH |
| Tournament | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | SR | W–L | Win % |
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| Australian Open | A | A | A | 1R | A | Q3 | 1R | 1R | QF | 3R | A | 2R | 2R | 3R | 0 / 8 | 10–8 | 56% |
| French Open | Q2 | A | Q1 | Q2 | A | 3R | Q2 | 1R | 4R | 4R | 1R | QF | QF | 1R | 0 / 8 | 16–8 | 67% |
| Wimbledon | A | Q1 | Q3 | A | Q1 | 1R | 2R | 1R | NH | QF | F | F | 3R | 1R | 0 / 8 | 19–8 | 70% |
| US Open | A | Q1 | 1R | Q1 | Q1 | 2R | 1R | 3R | 3R | 3R | F | 4R | A | A | 0 / 8 | 16–8 | 67% |
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 3–3 | 1–3 | 2–4 | 9–3 | 11–4 | 12–3 | 14–4 | 7–3 | 2–3 | 0 / 32 | 61–32 | 66% |
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| Loss | 2022 | Wimbledon | Grass |  Elena Rybakina | 6–3, 2–6, 2–6 |
| Loss | 2022 | US Open | Hard |  Iga Świątek | 2–6, 6–7(5–7) |
| Loss | 2023 | Wimbledon | Grass |  Markéta Vondroušová | 4–6, 4–6 |
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