The name of Simona Halep was on the lips of all athletes and not only after our athlete tested positive for anti-doping control.

For the positive, we have selected for you 5 interesting facts, as well as little-known facts about our athlete, both on the tennis court and in everyday life.

1. What grade did he get in his bachelor’s degree

Simona Halep attended the “Dumitra Rotaru” sports high school in Constanta

The champion of Romania has always put tennis first, so she was not at the first session of the Bachelor. Later, he passed the Matriculation Examination and in the second session managed to pass the Baccalaureate with a GPA above 8.

2. Favorite dish

Although we all know how important a balanced diet is to a successful athlete, Simona’s favorite food that she likes to eat, especially in her free time with family members, is Piperchi târgâsiti, a traditional Romanian dish.

3. Simona Halep inflicted one of the most serious defeats of her career on Serena Williams

It was 2014 and Simona’s first participation in the tournament of champions in Singapore. Serena absolutely dominated that year with the most wins on the WTA tour.

Throughout the year, she seemed virtually invincible, except for Simona, who then played one of her career group matches at the Champions League in Singapore and blanked Serena 6-0 6-2, Serena Williams’ second-heaviest defeat in a career. eri

The most serious defeat of the American was against Johanna Konta with a score of 6-1 6-0 at the tournament in San Jose in 2018.

4. First appearance on television

Few people know that Simona’s first appearance on the TV show took place in 2008, when she was only 17 years old and managed to win the junior Roland Garros.

Exactly 10 years later, in 2018, she won Roland Garros (this time as a senior), defeating the American Sloane Stevens in 3 sets.

However, if in 2008 she presented the junior trophy from Roland Garros on the show “La Măruță” by Pro TV, then in 2018, after the triumph in Paris, she was a participant in the grand ceremony of presenting the trophy at the National Arena with 50,000 people in the stands.

5. The victim of a robbery the week he won the Wimbledon title

A lesser-known story happened before Elina Svitolina’s match in the Wimbledon semifinals, when the managers of the London hotel where the players were staying at the tournament reported that 2 people broke into the room of Simona and Petro Kvitova, who were staying in the same hotel. floor of the hotel, trying to rob them of certain valuables that the two intruders believed the two players in the room had.

But, bad luck for them, who were later caught and fined by the authorities for the attempted robbery.