2, achieved on 27 June 2022, making her the highest-ranked African and Arab tennis player in WTA and ATP rankings history.

At the 2020 Australian Open, Jabeur became the first Arab woman to reach a major quarterfinal, a feat she repeated at the 2021 Wimbledon Championships.

[7] Jabeur trained under coach Nabil Mlika for ten years from ages four to thirteen, originally starting to work with him at a tennis promotion centre at her school.

Two weeks later, she played the 2010 French Open and upset third seed Irina Khromacheva in the semifinals before finishing runner-up to Elina Svitolina.

[5] Jabeur also entered the doubles event at the Grade 1 Junior International Roehampton, which she won while partnering with Ashleigh Barty.

[13][14] After having left wrist surgery at the end of the year and winning a junior Grand Slam title,[4] Jabeur moved up to the $25k and $50k levels in the summer of 2011.

[13] She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the age of 17 as a wildcard at the Premier 5 Qatar Ladies Open in February 2012, where she lost her first career match to No.

[15] 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.

[28] She won her only Grand Slam main-draw match of the year at Wimbledon over Viktorija Golubic, who she defeated for the third time in the span of a month.

[35] Jabeur defeated a fourth top 50 player in succession in Wang Qiang before losing to eventual champion Sofia Kenin in the quarterfinals.

[41] She defeated Magda Linette to reach the fourth round for a second time in this major where she lost to 24th seed Coco Gauff.

[42] Seeded second, Jabeur reached her third final in her career and made history as the first Arab woman to win a WTA Tour title at the Birmingham Classic by defeating Daria Kasatkina.

[43][44] At the same tournament, partnering with Australian Ellen Perez, Jabeur also reached her first doubles final, losing to Marie Bouzková and Lucie Hradecká.

[62][63][64] At the Italian Open, she reached her second consecutive WTA 1000 final, defeating Sorana Cîrstea, Ajla Tomljanović, Yulia Putintseva, and fourth seed Maria Sakkari, before saving a match point in the semifinals against Daria Kasatkina for her 11th straight win.

[70] Jabeur and Williams won their first-round match against Marie Bouzková and Sara Sorribes Tormo to set up a quarterfinal against Shuko Aoyama and Chan Hao-ching.

[71] They then reached the semifinals but Jabeur withdrew before their match with Magda Linette and Aleksandra Krunić citing a right knee injury.

[73][74] In London, she reached her second consecutive Wimbledon quarterfinal, defeating Mirjam Björklund, Katarzyna Kawa, Diane Parry and 24th seed Elise Mertens.

[93] After an absence for a right knee injury which was treated by surgery, she returned to the circuit in March at Indian Wells, but lost in the third round against Vondroušová, after beating Magdalena Fręch.

She reached the final without losing a set, with wins over Lesia Tsurenko, Caroline Dolehide, Anna Kalinskaya and Daria Kasatkina.

[95] She took part in the Stuttgart Grand Prix two weeks later and took out former Roland Garros winner Jeļena Ostapenko and Beatriz Haddad Maia but had to retire in the semifinal against top seed Iga Świątek, after three games due to a left calf injury.

At Roland Garros, she eliminated the Italian Lucia Bronzetti, the local Océane Dodin, the last Frenchwoman in the running, and Olga Danilović, both out of the top 100 to join as in 2020 and 2021 the round of 16 Porte d'Auteuil.

[100] At the Australian Open, Jabeur lost in the second round for a second consecutive year, this time to the 16-year old Mirra Andreeva who was making her tournament debut and ranked No.

[101][102] At the French Open, she reached the quarterfinals for a second consecutive time, with wins over wildcard Sachia Vickery,[103] Camila Osorio,[104] 31st seed Leylah Fernandez[105] and Clara Tauson.

[107] At the beginning of the grass season, as the top seed, she reached also the quarterfinals at the Nottingham Open with a win over qualifier Linda Fruhvirtová.

[112] The same injury forced her to pull out of the China Open in September[113] when she also announced she would end her season early and indicated she intended to return to the court in Australia in 2025.

[114] Jabeur made her comeback at the Australian Open, securing wins over Anhelina Kalinina[115] and Camila Osorio,[116] before losing to eighth seed Emma Navarro in the third round.

"[7] In early 2020, Jabeur switched coaches to Issam Jellali, a former Tunisian Davis Cup player with whom she had already been working for about three years.

[7] Jabeur is close friends with fellow tennis player Tatjana Maria, whom she defeated in the semifinals of the 2022 Wimbledon Championships, describing her as her "barbecue buddy".

[140] In 2018, she became ambassador of HAVAL belonging to the automotive manufacturer Great Wall Motor through Atlas Auto its distributor in Tunisia, then sponsored in the same year the Joossoor group chaired by businessman Moez Driss.

On 25 August 2023, Jabeur purchased a minority stake in National Women's Soccer League club North Carolina Courage, becoming the second professional tennis player to do so after Naomi Osaka.