The Court of Arbitration for Sport has announced that it will review Simona Halep’s case between February 7 and 9, and the two-time Grand Slam winner gave an interview to Euronews explaining what will happen if she fails to have her four-year doping ban reduced. .

Simona Halep says she will retire if 4-year ban not reduced to TAS

If the 4-year ban remains in place, it will expire on October 6, 2026. Halep would have turned 35 at that time, and the ex-WTA leader believes that she will not be able to return to the court.

Simona also talked about coach Patrick Muratoglu, who he took responsibility too late for the situation in which the Romanian woman is.

“More than a year has passed, and every day I felt it very painfully, full of emotions. It was a shock to me when I got the letter that my urine test, just my urine test, was positive. I know I have done nothing wrong and I know I am clean.

I have always been against doping. Four years is a lot at my age. If it’s four years, I don’t know how I’ll cope. It will probably be the end of my career.

Indeed, it has been made public (Patrick Muratoglu has not). 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 faith, and now my faith has wavered a little” – Simona Halepin an interview with Euronews.

It will be recalled that Halep appealed to the CAS 4-year disqualification for doping on October 24 this year.

The Swiss court said at the time that the former WTA leader had asked to overturn 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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