WATCH: Simona Halep makes first public appearance after being treated ‘Unfairly at every level’ following ITIA suspending her for 4-years on doping charges

Simona Halep was spotted in Romania following her suspension on the doping case.

WATCH: Simona Halep makes first public appearance after being treated ‘Unfairly at every level’ following ITIA suspending her for 4-years on doping charges

Simona Halep (Credits: Twitter)

Former Romanian World No.1 Simona Halep makes her first public appearance after the verdict of the controversial doping case. For the uninitiated, Halep was suspended for four years by ITIA (The International Tennis Integrity Agency) and it almost means that Halep will no longer be back on the tennis circuit with age running out of the 31-year-old’s career.

Halep has had a decent career so far. Her emphatic Wimbledon win stopping the American great Serena Williams in 2019 who was looking to win her eighth title there is still considered to be one of the best matches of her career. Her drug test failure was in the 2022 US Open and Halep and her fans have been expecting the verdict for almost a year now.

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The Romanian star was spotted at her home and the reporter asked about how she feels about the verdict now. She replied that it was unfair on all levels and she expects to prove her innocence once as she thinks that she has not used any illegal substance that eventually led to her suspension.

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Simona Halep has won two Grand Slams in her career

Simona Halep (Credits:Wimbledon)
Simona Halep (Credits: Wimbledon)

The Romanian former World No.1 Simona Halep has played in all four Grand Slam semi-finals. Out of them, she has reached three finals of Grand Slams and won two of them. Altogether her best results in Grand Slam tournaments are the championship won in French Open and Wimbledon. This was in the years 2018 and 2019. In the Australian Open, her best result was her final appearance in 2018. In the US Open, she has the best record of a semi-final appearance in 2015.

Altogether, her peak years are considered to be 2018 and 2019 after becoming the World No.1 in October 2017. In the French Open 2018, Halep defeated American world No.50, Sloane Stephens, in the final, 3–6, 6–4, 6–1, and in Wimbledon final 2019, 23-time grand slam champion Serena Williams 6-2,6-2 respectively.

After getting caught for doping, Halep made her voice clear on Twitter (now renamed as X) in October 2022, “Today begins the hardest match of my life: a fight for the truth. I have been notified that I have tested positive for a substance called Roxadustat in an extremely low quantity, which came as the biggest shock of my life.”

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