Iga Swiatek, the world’s number one player, defeated Ons Jabeur of Tunisia 6-2 7-6(5) in the US Open final on Saturday to win her first trophy at Flushing Meadows and third Grand Slam championship.

Ons Jabeur, a professional tennis player from Tunisia, was born on August 28, 1994. The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) has her rated as high as No. 2 in the world, which was accomplished on June 27, 2022.

The highest-ranked African and Arab tennis player in WTA and ATP rankings history is Jabeur, who is currently rated No. 1 in Tunisia. She has won 11 singles championships and one doubles win on the ITF Women’s Circuit in addition to three singles titles on the WTA Tour.

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When Jabeur was three years old, her mother introduced her to tennis. In 2010 and 2011, she competed in the French Open junior major girls’ singles final twice, winning the second match to become the first Arab to win a junior major since 1964.

Jabeur began actively participating on the WTA Tour in 2017 after spending nearly ten years mostly playing at the ITF level. In 2019, she received the Arab Woman of the Year Award. Jabeur made history by becoming the first Arab woman to compete in a major quarterfinal at the 2020 Australian Open.

She repeated the feat at the 2021 Wimbledon Championships. At the Birmingham Classic in 2021, she became the first Arab woman to win a WTA Tour championship.

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Jabeur became the first Tunisian and Arab player to win at this level at the 2022 Madrid Open, a WTA 1000 tournament, and she advanced to her first major final at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships.

Reportedly, her estimated net worth is around $8 million.

Jabeur is married to Karim Kamoun, a former fencer who is also her fitness instructor and is Tunisian-Russian. She speaks Arabic, English, and French with ease. She is now learning Russian because her spouse does. Andy Roddick was her favourite tennis player when she was younger. She enjoys casually playing football and is a supporter of Real Madrid CF and Étoile Sportive du Sahel.

Before the 2017 French Open, where Jabeur won her first two Grand Slam main-draw matches, she was one of 12 athletes to earn an International Player Grand Slam Grant from the Grand Slam Development Fund. Qatar Airways started endorsing her in 2020.