Romanian tennis player Simona Halepcurrently ranked 26th in the world suspended for four years by an independent court Following violations of the Tennis Anti-Doping Program (TADP), as reported this Tuesday by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA).
31-year-old Halep tested positive at the 2022 US Open banned substance roxadustatAfter performing regular urine analysis during the competition. It also offers various irregularities ITIA states in the Athlete Biological Passport (ABP).
After hearing expert scientific witnesses on behalf of the tennis player and ITIA, as well as the player himself, declared that he received “contaminated reinforcementThe independent tribunal confirmed that it had found Halep to have committed intentional anti-doping rule violations on the grounds that “the volume ingested could not have resulted in the concentration of roxadustat found in the positive sample.”
The former world number one and two-time winner of Grand Slam tournaments has been provisionally suspended since October 2022, so the suspension will now be extended until October 6, 2026.