Simona Halep received a wildcard into the WTA 1000 tournament in Miami, but the Romanian lost in the opening round to Paula Badosa. The former world leader may receive a new invitation, this time to the WTA 250 tournament.

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Simona Halep can also get a wildcard at the WTA in Rouen

The tournament in Rouen has moved from the WTA 125 category to the WTA 250 and will be held from April 15 to 21.

Returning to the WTA after the TAS significantly reduced the suspension received by the Roxadustat doping scandal at the 2022 US Open (from 4 years to 9 months), Halep was the surprise of the tournament in Miami, where she received a wildcard from the organizers.

After losing in the first round to Paula Badoza, Halep is very close to receiving another invitation, this time to the tournament in Rouen.

“But we have a hunch that a major announcement may be made soon to mark this first edition. Simona Halep is the perfect guest for this type of tournament, as the Romanian is looking for matches and confidence after her suspension, and her ranking keeps her from the biggest tournaments on the circuit. We will soon find out whether We Love Tennis had an intuition or not,” wrote Welovetennis.fr journalists.

Open Capfinances Rouen Metropole, a WTA 250 tournament, will be held from April 15 to 21. The game will be played on clay, with a main draw of 32 players and a total prize pool of $267,082. The first editions were won by Maryna Zanevska (2022) and Viktoriya Golubich (2023).

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Find out after the match between Simona Halep and Paula Badosa from WTA Miami

• Simona Halep will receive a check for $23,250 and 10 points in the world singles ranking (she ranks 1140th in the Live hierarchy) for being in the main draw of WTA Miami.

• Paula Badosa (80 WTA) will meet in the second round. Aryna Sabalenko (2 WTA), a player whose ex-boyfriend died aged just 42.

• This is Paula’s first victory over Simona. In the first meetings (both took place in 2022), the Romanian won: 6-3, 6-1 in Madrid and 6-1, 6-2 in Wimbledon.

• After Simona HalepAna Bohdan and Jacqueline Christian were eliminated in the first round, Romania has only one representative in Miami: Sorana Kirstia (second round – match with Sloane Stevens or Angelique Kerber).

• Simona Halep played her last official match on August 29, 2022. At the US Open, in the inaugural round, our athlete unexpectedly defeated Daria Snigur (at that time she was ranked 124th in the WTA qualification ranking).

• 18 months of nightmare followed for the former WTA leader – she was banned 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. test conducted at the US Open 2022 (1) and irregularities in his biological passport (2). Halep appealed to the CAS, which reduced her sentence to 9 months.