Simona Halep: The Nightmare is Completed

Simona Halep awaits a ruling in her attraction of a four-year doping ban and says she’s sleeping higher as of late.

Former world No. 1 Halep took to social media posting an replace on her attraction and frame of mind as she waits the choice that might both clear a path for her return or jeopardize her aggressive profession.

The 32-year-old Halep stated presenting her case earlier than the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland earlier this month has given her peace of thoughts that she’s advised the reality. Halep thanked supporters for believing in her.

“The nightmare that I’ve lived for a yr and a half is completed,” Halep posted on social media. “I had the possibility to current my protection in entrance of TAS, to indicate that I by no means did any form of doping. That is what I’ve stated from the primary day I used to be accused.

“Now I’m ready for the choice with my head held excessive and I wished to thanks, my followers, gamers, former gamers, legends of this sport, my sponsors, and everybody else on your superb assist, all of the messages and video that you just did for me throughout this harrowing time that I had.”

Within the aftermath of her testimony two weeks in the past, Halep expressed confidence she might win attraction and return to the professional circuit.

“This listening to supplied me with the chance to current my place and defend my innocence,” Halep stated in a press release. “My confidence within the prevalence of the reality stays intact. I sit up for reclaiming my place on the tennis courts.”

The Romanian famous person examined constructive for the banned drug Roxadustat on the 2022 US Open. Halep has been provisionally suspended since October 2022. She says her constructive check is a results of ingesting a contaminated Schinoussa complement known as Keto MCT.

Halep says the presence of Roxadustat was not disclosed on the label of the Keto MCT complement, subsequently she had no manner of understanding it was contaminated.

Halep’s suspension will run from October 7, 2022 till October 6, 2026, until she wins a lowered sentence by means of attraction.

In her attraction, Halep is asking the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport to put aside the Tribunal’s resolution and cut back her suspension. In accordance with CAS procedures, a panel of arbitrators will deliberate and concern an Arbitral Award containing its resolution and the grounds for it.

“Right now, it’s not potential to point a time-frame for the issuance of the choice,” the CAS stated in a press release. “The CAS Panel’s resolution shall be last and binding, except for the events’ proper to file an attraction to the Swiss Federal Tribunal inside 30 days on restricted grounds.”