Simona Halep was temporarily suspended after failing an anti-doping test at the US Open 2022 (the banned substance is roxadustat). The former world leader received a lot of support from white sports figures, but there are also voices that criticize the player from Romania.

Andreia Redukan breaks her silence regarding Simona Halep’s doping case: “Sometimes in life you can pay for other people’s mistakes”

Fans of Maria Sharapova attack (on Reddit, Twitter) those who defend Simona, and moreover, they debunk the statement of the player from Romania before Masha’s first match after serving a doping ban.

In 2016, Sharapova didn’t get anywhere near the support that Halep enjoys now, and that angered the Russian’s fans.

Maria was disqualified after failing an anti-doping test (meldonium), and the return to the field took place due to a wild card received from the organizers in Stuttgart (2017, WTA 500 category tournament).

Then Alize Cornet and Simona Halep opposed the gesture of the German organizers.

Five years later, Maria Sharapova’s fans remembered Simona Halep’s statement at that time.

“For children, for young players, it is not normal to give a wild card to a player who has been disqualified for doping.

This is not about Maria Sharapova, but about all athletes who have been found to have used doping,” – Simona Halep before the return of Maria Sharapova to the tennis court after suspension from doping.

Now that Simona is temporarily suspended from all official competition, many fans of Maria Sharapova are calling for the former WTA leader to be disqualified accordingly.

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