Simona Halep has been provisionally suspended from tennis after testing positive for a prohibited substance. The former world No.1 from Romania is shocked to learn that her sample taken at the 2022 US Open revealed a doping case.
“Today begins the hardest match of my life: a fight for the truth,” the 31-year-old Halep started her Twitter post that comments on the frustrating situation she finds herself in just weeks after going through a divorce.
Having tested positive for roxadustat, although “in an extremely low quantity”, Halep can’t help but feel “completely confused and betrayed” as the idea of cheating never ever crossed her mind and it is absolutely against all her values.