Yesterday, Monday, the Tunisian tennis champion, Anas Jaber, made a humanitarian gesture, which is to offer her racket that she used in the high “Wimbledon” tennis tournament for sale in a charity auction, in order to support her country in its current efforts to combat the emerging “Corona” virus.
Jaber indicated in a video message to her that she shared on her accounts on the social networking site that the financial return from selling the racket will be allocated to the purchase of necessary medicines and medical equipment, and the player will add an amount to the price at which it will be sold.
Anas Jaber confirmed that the reason behind her decision to put her racket up for sale in a charity auction is that she is no different from any Tunisian or Tunisian: “Like any Tunisian, she cannot see her country going through difficult circumstances.”
And she continued: “We are all against (Covid), a racket for the sake of my country, Tunisia, for a noble goal.”
And a spokeswoman for the Tunisian Ministry of Health announced, last Thursday, that the country’s health system had collapsed, with intensive care departments full, doctors exhausted, and the rapid spread of the Corona pandemic.
Last Friday, Tunisia recorded 189 deaths as a result of complications from infection with the virus, in a precedent that is the first of its kind, and 8,506 new cases were recorded, bringing the total infections in the country close to 482,000 cases, and this comes in light of Tunisia’s suffering from a shortage of anti-virus vaccines. Only 721,000 people out of more than three million people who registered for the vaccine received the vaccine, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
It is noteworthy that Tunisian player Anas Jaber, ranked 24th in the world, had qualified, last Monday, for the quarter-finals of the “Wimbledon” tennis tournament.
Anas Jaber beat Poland’s Iga Chiantek, ranked ninth in the world, in two sets, after one hour and 41 minutes of play.
Tunisian Anas Jaber overturned her delay in front of the Polish, in the final price of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, to win 5-7, 6-1, 6-1, to reach the quarter-finals in a historic Arab achievement.