The French press highlighted Simona Halep’s (33 years old) strong dissatisfaction after the relentless attack on the ITIA.
Simona Halep publicly expressed her discontent with the decisions made by the ITIA in the last two doping cases in tennis, involving Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek, and the French press reacted to our athlete’s statements.
Journalists from the "Hexagon" emphasized that Simona Halep's major dissatisfaction with the ITIA stems from the fact that, unlike Sinner and Swiatek, she was not allowed to play during the investigations of her doping case.
"In the tennis world, the year 2024 was marked by two doping cases involving two world leaders, Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek. While the Italian's case is still ongoing, the ITIA explained that the Polish player accepted a one-month suspension after testing positive in August, a lenient suspension because Swiatek managed to prove that she was not negligent. A sanction that Simona Halep finds hard to digest.
We remind that the Romanian was suspended for 18 months due to a mistake made by the team. Most importantly, however, the former world leader was not allowed to play during the doping process, unlike Swiatek and Sinner," writes the tennisactu.net website.
Furthermore, Simona Halep also pointed fingers at the WTA player council, which refused to grant her place and ranking points in the WTA standings in July 2023, when her official suspension (9 months, reduced from 4 years by CAS) expired.