Paula Badosa and Simona Halep proudly present as much as help pregnant Ons Jabeur as she begins new chapter with Dubai tennis academy

Paula Badosa and Simona Halep confirmed as much as help Ons Jabeur because the Tunisian begins a brand new chapter by inaugurating her tennis academy in Dubai. Jabeur is at present taking a break from enjoying as a consequence of her being pregnant.

Ons Jabeur Academy has been a piece in progress for the previous few months, they usually formally started accepting entries prior to now few days. Lately, in Dubai, the World No. 76 held a ceremony to inaugurate the academy.

Her shut buddy Badosa was in attendance together with former World No. 1 Halep. The pair shared a number of photographs of the occasion on their Instagram Story, the place Jabeur is seen addressing a crowd.

This comes amid Jabeur’s current announcement about taking a break from the WTA Tour. She and her husband, Karim Kamoun, shared the replace adorably on Instagram. They wrote:

“The courtroom must wait a little bit longer, as a result of quickly… we’ll be welcoming our tiniest teammate 👶💙”

Jabeur and Kamoun predict a child boy in April 2026. Amusingly, Badosa and Kamoun not too long ago bantered concerning the couple’s child. The Spanish WTA star posed for an Instagram image the place she held Jabeur’s abdomen from the again. Kamoun shared it on his Story and wrote:

“It is my child”

Captioning her repost, Badosa added:

“It is mine.”

Jabeur final performed an official match in June, the place she retired within the second set.

“I haven’t actually felt joyful on the courtroom for a while now” – Ons Jabeur introduced a break from tennis after Wimbledon

In 2025, Ons Jabeur began robust with quarterfinal runs in a number of occasions earlier than a streak of early losses that resulted in a drop in her rating. At Wimbledon, she confronted Viktoriya Tomova within the first spherical and retired mid-match after taking place 6(5)-7, 0-2.

Quickly after, she introduced an indefinite break from the game. Taking to social media, she wrote:

“For the previous two years, I’ve been pushing myself so laborious, preventing via accidents and dealing with many different challenges. However deep down, I haven’t actually felt joyful on the courtroom for a while now… Tennis is such a ravishing sport. However proper now, I really feel it’s time to take a step again and at last put myself first: To breathe, to heal, and to rediscover the enjoyment of merely dwelling.”

Nonetheless, months later, she introduced that her break will probably be prolonged as she is now pregnant together with her first little one.