​Four players from Romania have been directly entered into the main draw of the WTA 1000 tournament in Miami, a competition that will see the return of Simona Halep.

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Simona Halep will play on March 19 at WTA Miami – Sorana Kirstea, Ana Bohdan and Jacqueline Christian in the main draw

In addition to Sorana Kirstia (22nd WTA), Ana Bohdan (65th WTA) and Simona Halep (wildcard beneficiary), Romania will also be represented at the tournament in Florida by Jacqueline Christian (82nd WTA).

Christian, who was supposed to play in the qualifiers, entered the main draw after Amanda Anisimova, Marketa Vondrousova (Wimbledon champion), Mirra Andreeva, Karolina Mukhova and Mayar Sherif withdrew from the WTA 1000 competition.

The main draw will take place on Sunday, March 17.

The first round matches will take place on March 19, the day Simona Halep will return to the WTA tournament (after TAS reduced her suspension in a doping case).

There will be 32 players on the seed list and Sorana Kirstya will have a free first round.

The WTA 1000 Miami Open tournament will be held from March 19 to 31. The game will be played on hard surfaces, with 128 players in the main draw and a total prize pool of $8,995,555. The champion of the overall title is Petra Kvitova (she is pregnant and will not participate in this year’s edition).

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About the doping case of Simona Halep

• 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).

• Halep was heard at the CAS on February 7-9, 2024.

• TAS reduced Simona Halep’s sentence from 4 years to 9 months.

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

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