The Wimbledon defeat and her anguish underlines the difficult choices athletes must make between work and family
As the best tennis players in the world converged on the lawns of Wimbledon last summer, it soon became clear that Ons Jabeur was soaring. She produced the best tennis of her life as she tore through a brutal run of grand slam champions – Petra Kvitova, Elena Rybakina and Aryna Sabalenka – to reach her second final in a row. She then entered the final heavily favoured to become the first African and Arab tennis player to win a single grand slam title.
Instead, she froze.
Written by Tumaini Carayol in Madrid
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/apr/29/ons-jabeur-interview-tennis-family under the title “‘Maybe I’m not ready to be a mum yet’: Ons Jabeur on her grand slam dream”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
