Volkswacht Bodensee - 'Hugs always welcome', tearful Jabeur tells Princess Kate

NYSE - LSE

NGG	2.65%	81.22	$
RIO	0.12%	90.32	$
VOD	1.61%	16.11	$
BCE	0.74%	20.33	$
RYCEF	-2.21%	17.61	$
RBGPF	5.2%	75.42	$
BCC	0.85%	76.13	$
CMSD	0.05%	19.86	$
RELX	1.64%	39.06	$
CMSC	0.05%	19.89	$
GSK	0.99%	49.51	$
BP	3.53%	50.21	$
BTI	3.33%	60	$
AZN	-0.77%	165.41	$
JRI	0.76%	10.56	$

'Hugs always welcome', tearful Jabeur tells Princess Kate / Photo: © AFP

'Hugs always welcome', tearful Jabeur tells Princess Kate

SPORTS 15.07.2023

Ons Jabeur was so disconsolate after her shock Wimbledon final defeat on Saturday that she told Kate, the Princess of Wales, that "hugs are always welcome".

Text size:

In a moving moment on Centre Court, the wife of the heir to the British throne, gave the tearful Tunisian a warm embrace as she handed her the runners-up trophy.

"She didn't know if she wants to give me a hug or not. I told her hugs are always welcome from me. That was a very nice moment and she's always nice to me," Jabeur said after losing a second successive Wimbledon final.

When asked what Princess Kate told her following the 6-4, 6-4 loss to Marketa Vondrousova, she said: "Same thing after last year.

"To encourage me to be strong, to come back and win a Grand Slam, win a Wimbledon. Obviously she was very nice."

Jabeur has now lost all three of the Grand Slam finals in which she has appeared, only the eighth woman to have suffered such a fate.

M.Odermatt--BTB

Volkswacht Bodensee - 'Hugs always welcome', tearful Jabeur tells Princess Kate

'Hugs always welcome', tearful Jabeur tells Princess Kate

Featured

Guardians-Rays MLB playoff game postponed until Saturday

Guardians-Rays MLB playoff game start delayed by rain

Injured Jordie Barrett out of second Bledisloe Cup Test

As Champions Cup opens on mournful note, holders Bordeaux-Begles draw