‘We are all obsessed with him now’: Hady Habib thrills Lebanese diaspora with Australian Open success

First Lebanese tennis player to reach a grand slam unites community in wild celebration and renewed hope

James Habib could barely believe what he was seeing.

At court 13 at Melbourne Park, he watched as his cousin, Hady Habib, became the first ever Lebanese player in the Open Era to reach the main draw of a grand slam tournament.

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