{"id":17066,"date":"2025-07-17T19:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/17066\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T19:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:05:07","slug":"unhappy-ons-jabeur-announces-break-from-tennis-after-2025-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/17066\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Unhappy’ Ons Jabeur announces break from tennis after 2025 struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three-time Grand Slam finalist Ons Jabeur is taking a break from competitive tennis, the 30-year-old said in a social media post on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Tunisia’s Jabeur<\/a>, the first Arab woman to reach a Grand Slam final, has struggled with her form in recent months, failing to get past the third round of a major this year.<\/p>\n

The two-time Wimbledon finalist’s campaign came to a disappointing end at the All England Club last month as she retired from her first-round clash against Viktoriya Tomova<\/a>, unable to continue after a long medical timeout.<\/p>\n

The former world number two suffers from asthma and experienced breathing difficulties at this year’s Australian Open.<\/p>\n

Jabeur, often called the ‘minister of happiness’ for her cheerful personality, said she was not feeling truly happy on the court.<\/p>\n

“For the past two years, I’ve been pushing myself so hard, fighting through injuries and facing many other challenges. But deep down, I haven’t truly felt happy on the court for some time now,” she said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“Tennis is such a beautiful sport. But right now, I feel it’s time to take a step back and finally put myself first: to breathe, to heal, and to rediscover the joy of simply living.”<\/p>\n

Jabeur, married to former fencer Karim Kamoun, has also been open about her wish to start a family.<\/p>\n

“Thank you to all my fans for understanding. Your support and love mean the world to me. I carry it with me always,” she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three-time Grand Slam finalist Ons Jabeur is taking a break from competitive tennis, the 30-year-old said in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-17066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}