Ons Jabeur: My Knee Is 80%

Two-time Grand Slam finalist Ons Jabeur made a successful return from knee surgery yesterday at Indian Wells, coming from a set down to defeat Magdalena Frech.

The world No. 4 is playing just her third event of 2023 and her first since bowing out of the Australian almost two months ago.

Jabeur was saddled by a knee injury which she had surgery on. However, she’s still now fully fit.

“My knee is, I can say 80%, it’s getting there,” she stated yesterday. “At least the pain is not here. I’m strengthening and getting my movements back, but still my movements are not 100%, for sure.

“The knee is getting there. Physically I obviously need more time. But when the time is right, I’ll tell you what was going on really. I’m sorry, I cannot talk about it right now. But it is more than that. So it was very challenging for me health-wise.

“It’s a tough decision to come back, and I was the one that insisted that I come back in Indian Wells and Miami. It was probably too early to come back, but I just made it a new challenge for myself.”

Jabeur is back on court tomorrow to take on the woman who knocked her out of Melbourne, Marketa Vondrousova.

“I do? Shit. I didn’t know,” she joked when told of her next opponent.

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