Obviously, losing in the first round of the Miami tournament was not what upset Simona Halep the most on Tuesday. For her first match on the circuit since August 2022, after her positive doping test, the Romanian lost to the Spaniard Paula Badosa. But she was especially upset by Caroline Wozniacki’s comments, on the easy reception of someone who had “cheated”.
“This is not a criticism directed at Simona, but when someone cheated on purpose, tested positive for a banned product… I understand that tournaments want stars but, and this is my personal opinion, I don’t I don’t think these people should benefit from invitations,” Wozniacki explained.
The Dane continued to bring out the sulphate against the Romanian, who was able to play tennis again after the reduction of her anti-doping suspension, reduced from 4 years to 9 months by the Court of Arbitration for Sport two weeks ago: “ When we want to come back, even after what was a mistake, I hear it, we have to start again at the bottom of the ladder (…) Simona’s suspension was reduced, she was not cleared. »
” I did not do anything wrong “
Obviously, these comments were not at all appreciated by Simona Halep: “Why did she say that? I did not do anything wrong. I didn’t cheat. I didn’t do drugs. You must read the CAS decision carefully, it was a contaminated food supplement, I did not doped. One person’s negative comment isn’t important because hundreds of people have shown me love, I’ll leave it at that. »
The Romanian had tested positive for a banned product during the 2022 US Open, then suspended in October 2022, before “irregularities” in her biological passport increased her case the following spring. But the CAS attributed his positive test to a “contaminated food supplement”, and considered that the elements taken from his blood monitoring were not sufficient to establish doping behavior.
2024-03-20 06:57:00
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