​The collaboration between Simona Halep and Patrick Muratoglu started in April 2022, but everything went downhill after the former WTA leader was banned for 4 years for doping, and now she has announced that she no longer works with the French coach.

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Simona Halep no longer trains with Patrick Muratoglu: “I don’t know if I can trust again”

In an interview with Euronews, Halep said that she had not trained with Muratoglu and his team for “some time”. The two-time Grand Slam winner had hoped the Frenchman would take charge sooner and said her confidence had been shaken.

“I stopped cooperating with the Academy for a while (Patrick Muratoglu – no). I have always trusted, and now my trust has been shaken. In the future, I do not know how it will be, whether I will be able to trust again.

Indeed, it became public. I wish I had done it a little earlier. It was difficult for me because I always trusted my teams, previous teams and everyone I work with. I’ve always had confidence, but now I’m a little shaken” – Simona Halepin an interview with Euronews.

Simona Halep is sure that the supplement she took was contaminated: “I did not have the opportunity to use drugs”

Halep defends herself and talks about the contaminated supplement recommended to her by Patrick Muratoglu’s team after testing positive for Roxadustat.

“It is clear that this is an infection. Three days before the positive urine test, I had a negative urine and blood test. At first I was told it was an extremely small amount of a banned substance. I did not have the opportunity to use drugs during these three days.

It was never intentional and I never meant to do anything bad or not play fair because I always followed the rules and dedicated my life to tennis. My other principles are not to cheat in tennis” – Simona Halepaccording to the cited source.

It will be recalled that Halep appealed to the CAS 4-year disqualification for doping on October 24, 2023, and the hearing will be held between February 6 and 8, 2024.

The Swiss court said that the ex-leader of the WTA asked to cancel the decision of the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) and “reduce” its sanctions.

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What you need to know about Simona Halep’s doping case:

• The news that Simona Halep was temporarily suspended for doping appeared on Friday, October 21, 2022.

• Simona’s case was heard by Sport Resolutions, an independent tribunal in London that hears doping cases in white sport.

• Halep was suspended for 4 years for two separate violations of the Tennis Anti-Doping Program (TADP): the presence and use of the substance roxadustat in a urine sample collected after an anti-doping test conducted at the 2022 US Open (1) and a violation of her biological passport (2).

• Simone has only one appeal: the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne.

• If the 4-year disqualification remains in force, then the ex-WTA leader can theoretically return to the tennis court on October 6, 2026. Halep will be 35 years old at that time.

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