{"id":270078,"date":"2025-07-17T19:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/270078\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T19:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:16:09","slug":"ons-jabeur-to-step-back-from-tennis-for-own-wellbeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/270078\/","title":{"rendered":"Ons Jabeur to ‘step back’ from tennis for own wellbeing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ons Jabeur is taking a “step back” from tennis for her own wellbeing.<\/b><\/p>\n

The WTA announced, external<\/a> on Thursday the Tunisian had withdrawn from the forthcoming Montreal Open and added the 30-year-old was “the only player in the top 99 who has not entered next month’s US Open”.<\/p>\n

“For the past two years I’ve been pushing myself so hard, fighting through injuries and facing many other challenges,” wrote Jabeur in a social media post.<\/p>\n

“But, deep down, I haven’t felt happy on court for some time now.<\/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 has been as high as number two in the rankings but has now dropped to 71st.<\/p>\n

A two-time Wimbledon runner-up, she retired from her first round match<\/a> at the All England Club this year as she struggled on the tournament’s hottest ever opening day.<\/p>\n

Following her Wimbeldon exit, Jabeur said: “I’m pretty sad, it really doesn’t really help with my confidence and what I keep pushing myself to do, even though it has been a very tough season for me.”<\/p>\n

She added she would rest and just “try to disconnect a little bit from tennis” and spend some time with her family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ons Jabeur is taking a “step back” from tennis for her own wellbeing. The WTA announced, external on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-270078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114870182432517724","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}