Awaiting the TAS verdict to reduce the four-year suspension received in the case of doping, Simona Halep sued the Canadian company that produced the contaminated supplement and is demanding huge damages.

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Simona Halep is seeking $10 million in damages for the tainted supplement

The former world leader has sued a Canadian company that made a nutritional supplement believed to have led to a potentially career-ending doping ban, Reuters reports.

Simona Halep is seeking more than $10 million in damages from Quantum Nutrition, which trades as Schinoussa Superfoods, after testing positive for Roxadustat at the 2022 US Open.

Halep is also seeking damages in a lawsuit filed in Manhattan, New York state court.

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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 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 conducted at the 2022 US Open (1). and violations in her biological passport (2).

• Simone has only one appeal: the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne.

• According to the Court of Arbitration for Sport on its official website, Halep will be heard by CAS on February 7-9, 2024.

• A Swiss court said the former WTA leader had asked to overturn the decision of the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) and “reduce” its sanctions.

• If the 4-year disqualification remains in force, the ex-WTA leader can theoretically return to the tennis court on October 6, 2026. Halep would have turned 35 at that time.

• 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).