Two-time Grand Slam winner Simona Halep slapped with four-year ban in doping case
Tennis | September 13, 2023 8:02 ISTRomania's tennis ace Simona Halep has been suspended for four years in a doping case.
Romania's tennis ace Simona Halep has been suspended for four years in a doping case.
Simona Halep is fighting to prove her innocence since the last year's US Open. She is dropped from the entry list of this year's event.
Former no.1 Halep won Wimbledon in 2019 and the French Open in the year 2018.
US Open 2022: Fourth-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas, two-time Grand Slam winner Simona Halep, and Dominic Thiem have faced defeats in their opening encounter at the Flushing Meadows.
Cornet recovered after a second-set meltdown to beat two-time Grand Slam winner Halep 6-4, 3-6, 6-4.
The 14th-seeded Halep advanced with a 6-2, 6-1 victory Saturday over Danka Kovinic, a player who is ranked 98th and eliminated U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu in the previous round.
Svitolina has never won a Grand Slam tournament. She had lost twice before to the 12th-seeded Halep in majors.
The No. 12 seed rolled to a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Kristina Kucova at Arthur Ashe Stadium, where their match was moved after Naomi Osaka's opponent withdrew from their scheduled match.
Those were two of the earliest victories as the tournament welcomed back spectators after being playing last year without fans because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Halep is ranked No. 3 but would have been seeded second at the All England Club because second-ranked Naomi Osaka pulled out of Wimbledon earlier.
The organisers of the Bad Homburg, to be played from June 20-26, confirmed on Tuesday that Simona, 29, had accepted a wildcard entry.
Williams claimed the last five games and beat No. 2 seed Simona Halep 6-3, 6-3 in the quarterfinals despite 33 unforced errors
Serena will next face Naomi Osaka in the semis, who defeated HsiehSu-wei 6-2, 6-2 earlier in the day.
Serena Williams goes up against Simona Halep in the quarterfinals — their 12th meeting on tour in a matchup that dates to a decade ago.
The No. 2-seeded Halep avenged a loss last year at Roland Garros, where Swiatek dropped just three games in their fourth-round match.
The second-seeded Halep hadn’t lost to a player ranked as low as Tomljanovic since her second-round defeat to No. 116 Taylor Townsend at the 2019 U.S. Open.
The 29-year-old Romanian player said on Twitter that she is self-isolating at home and “recovering well from mild symptoms.”
Swiatek, the only teenager who reached the fourth round, avenged a crushing defeat by Halep at the same stage last year. The Romanian won that match 6-1, 6-0, in just 45 minutes.
Top-seeded Halep extended her winning streak to a career-best 17 matches as she seeks a third Grand Slam title.
Simona Halep and Amanda Anisimova will play each other at Court Philippe Chatrier in a third-round rematch of their French Open quarterfinal of a year ago. Anisimova, then just 17, won that one to reach her first Grand Slam semifinal.
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