Ons Jabeur, 6th in the world, is not one of the six nominated players to receive the prize for the best tenniswoman of the year 2023.
We can see a kind of revenge on the part of the International Tennis Federation after the positions of Ons Jabeur concerning the crimes of the Zionist entity in the Gaza Strip.
However, ons Jabeur was not nominated for the title of best tennis player of the year 2023 although 6th in the WTA ranking.
The list includes, the Polish IGA Swiatek (world number 1), the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka (n ° 2), the American Cori Gauff (n ° 3), the Kazakhe Elena Rybakina (n ° 4), the American Jessica Pegula (n ° 5), and the Czech Marketa Vandrosova (n ° 7).
Tunisian tennis star Ons Jabeur is absent from this list perhaps due to a drop in his performances this year due to repeated injuries and a regression in the world ranking of second place in the world in sixth place.
Be that as it may and even if the favorite remains the Polish Iga Swiatek, who managed to finish the year at the top of the world ranking, after winning the Masters, Ons Jabeur may pay the price of his positions in favor of Gaza.
Since the start of the war between Hamas and Israel, on October 7, Ons Jabeur has taken a position in the conflict several times at the risk of being penalized by the International Tennis Federation.
Since her message of support to the Palestinians, on October 11, she remains at the heart of the controversy. “What the Palestinians have been going through for 75 years is indescribable. What innocent citizens are going through is indescribable, whatever their religion and whatever their origins (…) violence will never lead to peace. I cannot tolerate violence; But either I cannot bear that people are confiscated their lands… ”, she had written in particular.
A position that had attracted the wrath of the Israeli tennis federation. “This tennis player fights, encourages and supports a deadly terrorist organization. (…) ”, Said in particular the president of the Israeli tennis association. He decided to complain to the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) and the International Tennis Federation (ITF).
In Cancun, during the Masters WTA in early November, the tennis player announced that she was going to give part of her WTA finals gains, to the Palestinians.
“I am happy with the victory, but I have not really been happy in recent days with what is happening in the world,” she said on the court before melting in tears during her duel against Vondrousova. “It’s hard to see children and babies die every day. It breaks my heart. I decided to give part of my earnings to help the Palestinians. It is not a political message, just humanity. I just want world peace, ”she added, very moved.
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