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| COURTESY XULA ATHLETICS |
NEW ORLEANS -- Xavier freshman Nour Abbes rarely celebrates her birthday.
Abbes doesn’t see the point if she can’t enjoy the moment with her family, so far away.
Tennis has taken her from a small clay court in Tunisia, located on the northern tip of Africa, to New Orleans, where at Xavier she is the highest-ranked ITA/NAIA singles player in school history.
The sport, full of time demands, has also stunted opportunities for her to make friends. Since age 9, tournaments and training dominated her childhood social calendar. And now, she’s separated from her three sisters and parents, far from routine for a Tunisian teenager, especially a young woman in her country’s conservative culture.
The Mediterranean Sea never seemed so distant.
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