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Former world No 1 Simona Halep has been cleared to resume her tennis career with immediate effect after a four-year ban for doping was reduced to nine months following an appeal.. The Court of ...
Halep had not played on tour since testing positive for the banned drug roxadustat at the 2022 U.S. Open, where she lost in the first round to Daria Snigur of Ukraine 6-2, 0-6, 6-4.
Halep, however, was handed a four-year ban in September 2023 after testing positive for the banned substance Roxadustat at the 2022 US Open, when she was provisionally suspended.
Halep says she is “devastated” and “spiraling” over her doping case and claims the ITIA is “killing” her reputation. [38] On 12 September 2023, the ITIA suspended Halep for a period of four years, backdated to her initial suspension on 6 October 2022. [39] Halep would appeal the ban to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
Halep was, at the time, the highest-profile name since Maria Sharapova to test positive for a banned substance. She has been critical of the time it took her case to be heard. She has been ...
The former Wimbledon and French Open tennis champion Simona Halep has expressed dismay at the way Iga Swiatek’s doping case was handled compared to her own Why did Iga Swiatek get a one-month doping ban?
Simona Halep (Romanian pronunciation: [siˈmona haˈlep]; [3] born 27 September 1991) is a Romanian professional tennis player. She has been ranked world No. 1 in singles twice between 2017 and 2019, for a total of 64 weeks, which ranks twelfth in the history of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) rankings.
As she serves a four-year doping ban, Romanian tennis star Simona Halep is now pursuing legal action against a Canadian health supplements company for damages in excess of $10 million.