Victory at TAS! The Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne reduced the suspension of Simona Halep (32 years old) to 9 months after hearings held on February 7-9. The decision, official and final, was made by the judges unanimously, 3-0. Cristian Tudor Popescu reacted to GSP.ro and says that he did not expect such a turn of events.

“Simone Halep has been acquitted, this is very good news, although it is strange, I have never heard of such a reduction of disqualification from 4 years to 9 months before. And this is very good news, because the Lausanne Tribunal has taken into account what I said from the first minute until today.

I have always argued, I also wrote, that Simona was wrong, but I cannot believe that she deliberately introduced this substance into her body! The fact that Muratoglu confessed, albeit so late – because he had been given this contaminated collagen on his orders, and Simona did not know what he had taken – was of little consequence.

The 9 months given as a punishment is correct, it punishes her for falling into the hands of this luggage scammer, remember not to do this again. He left his staff and threw himself into the arms of other foreign staff…”

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