Finalist in Rome after becoming the first player in the Arab world to win the WTA 1000 in Madrid, the most prestigious tournament category after the Grand Slams, the Tunisian Ons Jabeur arrives at Roland-Garros in good shape. In Paris, her best result is the round of 16, a stage she has reached in the past two years.
After a 2021 season where she climbed into the top 10, a first for an Arab player, Ons Jabeur, who is about to participate in the Roland-Garros tournament, has just climbed to 6th place in the world at the age of 27. , his best ranking. She achieved this thanks to her title in the Madrid WTA 1000 and in her final in Rome, where she lost to the world number one, the untouchable Pole Iga Swiatek, undefeated for 28 matches. Ons Jabeur will be one of the players to follow at the Porte d’Auteuil tournament, where her first international feat dates back to 2011, when she won the junior title at the age of 16.
” I must be in second week »
The youngest of four siblings was born in the coastal village of Ksar Hellal. She moved at the age of 12 to Tunis to join a prestigious sports school. Ons Jabeur became the first Arab player to reach the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam tournament at the Australian Open in 2020. Thanks to her notoriety, her former club Hammam Sousse, which named a court after her, has experienced a boom in registrations, from 320 in 2018 to more than 700 members today.
For her entry into the competition at Roland-Garros, the Tunisian will be opposed Monday, May 23 to the Polish player Magda Linette, 56th in the WTA ranking. ” I must be in the second week, I must have better results than in my other grand slams “says the player. She hopes to be mentally and physically ready ” for his ” primary objective “. After her defeat in Rome against Iga Swiatek (6-2, 6-2), the Tunisian confided: “ Iga is not number one for no reason, she really is a leader, I have a lot to learn from her, I hope we have another match soon. This defeat showed the gap between the two players.
At Roland-Garros her best result is an eighth final, a stage she has reached in the past two years. In the lower part of the table, Ons Jabeur could find in the quarters the Greek Maria Sakkari (4th in the world and semi-finalist last year).