Simona Halep is still suspended from tennis, after a response from the Sports Resolutions Tribunal is delayed. Although she was initially on the registration list for the US Open, our athlete did not receive a wild card and will thus miss the last Grand Slam of the year.
Simona Halep last participated in a tournament last year, at the last Grand Slam of 2022, the US Open. She was then prematurely eliminated from the competition and later tested positive for Roxadustat, a banned substance that earned her a provisional suspension.
After a series of successive postponements, Simona Halep was finally heard in London, at the Sports Resolutions Tribunal, but the answer to the doping case in which she is involved is slow to appear.
After missing the first three Grand Slam tournaments of the year, our athlete will also miss the US Open, the last competition she played in before the suspension.
Even if there were hopes that we could see Simona again at work at the last Grand Slam in 2023, after her name appeared on the initial list of participants , the organizers shattered any dream.
In the absence of a verdict from the court that analyzed the case, the organizers of the competition assigned the 8 wild cards to other athletes.
Venus Williams, Caroline Wozniacki, Ashlyn Krueger, Robin Montgomery, Kayla Day, Clervie Ngounoue, Storm Hunter and Fiona Ferro are the players who received wild cards before the US Open and can participate in the final Grand Slam tournament, as reported the organizers of the competition .
THE SITUATION OF SIMONA HALEP, “UNDER THE MAGNIFIER” OF GEORGE COSAC
Simona Halep was heard this summer in London in the doping case in which she has been involved since the fall of last year, and now she is waiting for a verdict from the Sports Resolutions Tribunal. The president of the Romanian Tennis Federation, George Cosac, analyzed the situation of the double grand slam champion and expressed some regret regarding the uncertainty in which the Romanian is.
George Cosac gave an interview to GSP in which he spoke at length about Simona’s situation and the uncertainty she is subject to. The president of the Romanian Tennis Federation regrets that Halep lost some of her supporters following the doping scandal and recalled the glory period of the Romanian.
“I’m sorry that a lot of those who loved Simona and who were by her side, have now kind of given up on her. No, the great performances, that is, the 7 years spent in the Top 10, Grand Slam- ures, were obtained under normal conditions, it was checked and tested more than 70 times.
7-8 years ago, when she was in that fulminant ascent, all or most sports fans in Romania were waiting for Simona Halep to play. I know hundreds of people who had nothing to do with sports and nothing to do with tennis, and who had become fans of Simona Halep”, declared Cosac.