The former Wimbledon and French Open tennis champion Simona Halep has expressed dismay at the way Iga Swiatek’s doping case was handled compared to her own. Halep said there had been severe differences in how their cases were treated by tennis authorities.
FILE - Simona Halep , of Romania, returns a shot to Daria Snigur, of Ukraine, during the first round of the U.S. Open tennis championships Aug. 29, 2022, in New York. Simona Halep , the former Wimbledon and French Open champion tennis player, has expressed dismay at the way Iga Swiatek ’s doping case was handled compared to her own.
Halep, a 33-year-old Romanian who initially received a four-year ban for doping, said there had been severe differences in how their cases were treated by tennis authorities.“I can’t find, and I don’t think there can be, a logical answer. It can only be bad will on the part of ITIA, the organisation that did absolutely everything to destroy me despite the evidence.” The International Tennis Integrity Agency announced on Thursday that the five-time major champion Swiatek accepted a one-month suspension after testing positive for the banned substance trimetazidine, a heart medication known as TMZ. The 23-year-old Polish player failed an out-of-competition drug test in August, and the ITIA accepted her explanation that the result was unintentional and was caused by the contamination of a nonprescription medication, melatonin, that Swiatek was taking for issues with jet lag and sleeping.The number of tennis players worldwide goes past 100 million, federation saysreduced by the Court of Arbitration for Sport to nine months “I have always believed in good, I have believed in the fairness of this sport, I have believed in kindness,” Halep wrote on Instagram. “The injustice that was done to me was painful, is painful and maybe will always be painful. How is it possible that in identical cases that happened at about the same time , ITIA has completely different approaches, to my detriment?” Swiatek’s case prompted men’s tennis player Nick Kyrgios, the 2022 Wimbledon runner-up, to post “OUR SPORT IS COOKED”It led to claims by some observers of a two-tier system, with critics arguing it afforded Sinner protection because of his status as a leading player.of one to two years and the Switzerland-based CAS is expected to make a final ruling on the case in 2025.
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