Ons Jabeur held up her cellphone for everyone to see her lock-screen photo of the Venus Rosewater Dish, the trophy given to the women’s champion at Wimbledon.
“I did everything since the beginning of the year,” Jabeur said, “to really focus on this tournament. ... But it wasn’t meant to be.” And then, finding a bit of humor on a disappointing day, she joked that perhaps she should have gone with a picture of the runner-up plate instead.
With a chance to become the first African or Arab woman to win a major tennis tournament in the sport’s professional era, the second-ranked Jabeur could not quite finish the job on Saturday. She gave away a lead and lost the final at the All England Club to 23rd-ranked Elena Rybakina 3-6, 6-2, 6-2.
