page_title: Ons Jabeur
section_title: 2017–18: Top 100 debut, and then first WTA final
hierarchical_section_title: Ons Jabeur / Professional career / 2017–18: Top 100 debut, and then first WTA final
caption_attribution_description: Wimbledon qualifying, Roehampton 2017.
context_page_description: Ons Jabeur is a Tunisian professional tennis player. She has a career-high Women's Tennis Association ranking of No. 39 in the world. At the 2020 Australian Open, Jabeur became the first Arab woman to reach quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament. She is also the highest-ranked Arab player in WTA history. Jabeur has won 11 singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Women's Circuit. She reached her only WTA final in 2018 at the Premier-level Kremlin Cup in Russia.
  Jabeur was first introduced to tennis at age three by her mother. She reached two junior Grand Slam girls' singles finals at the French Open in 2010 and 2011, winning the title in the second appearance. She is the first Arab player to win a junior Grand Slam singles title since Ismail El Shafei won the Wimbledon boys' title in 1964. After nearly a decade playing primarily at the ITF level, Jabeur has become more of a mainstay on the WTA Tour beginning in 2017. She was named the Arab Woman of the Year in Sports in 2019.
context_section_description: Jabeur participated in all four Grand Slam singles events in 2017 for the first time. After losing in the last round of qualifying at the Australian Open, she reached the French Open main draw as a lucky loser, the French Open main draw as a qualifier, and the US Open main draw as a direct acceptance. She began to rise back up the rankings at the Premier-level Dubai Tennis Championships, where she qualified for the main draw and upset world No. 22 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the first round. This result brought her from No. 171 to No. 137. After moderate success at the ITF $60K level, Jabeur's next big breakthrough came at the French Open. As a lucky loser, she won two main draw matches, including an upset of world No. 7 Dominika Cibulková in the second round for her first top 10 victory. She lost in the third round to Timea Bacsinszky. At the end of July, she made her top 100 debut. Her only other Grand Slam main draw match win of the year was a first round win over American wild card Brienne Minor at the US Open, which cemented her place in the top 100 for the rest of the year.
  Jabeur fell out of the top 100 in February 2018. She did not win her first match of the year until she reached the quarterfinals at the $60K Space Coast Pro Tennis Classic in April. After she lost in qualifying at the French Open, she dropped down to No. 180 in the world. Jabeur regained some of her rankings points when she won her first ITF $100K title at the Manchester Trophy, bringing her back to No. 133. With this title, she also earned a wild card into the main draw at Wimbledon. She won her only Grand Slam main draw match win of the year at Wimbledon over Viktorija Golubic, who she defeated for the third time in the span of a month. Jabeur ended her season with the best result of her career to date. As a qualifier at the Premier-level Kremlin Cup, she finished runner-up to world No. 14 Daria Kasatkina.  She defeated three top 25 players in the tournament, including No. 8 Sloane Stephens and No. 11 Anastasija Sevastova. With this result, she returned to the top 100 at a career-high of No. 62 in the world.
caption: Jabeur at Wimbledon qualifying in 2017
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