{"id":436297,"date":"2023-05-19T22:16:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T02:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=436297"},"modified":"2023-05-19T22:16:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T02:16:26","slug":"simona-halep-faces-2nd-doping-allegation","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/simona-halep-faces-2nd-doping-allegation\/","title":{"rendered":"Simona Halep faces 2nd doping allegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former world number 1 and 2-time Grand Slam winner Simona Halep faces a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> doping indictment for an anomaly in her athlete biological passport.<\/p>\n<p>The allegation that is reported today &#8220;is separate and in addition to&#8221; her 1<sup>st<\/sup> charge against Halep last season as she was suspended after failing a drug test at the US Open.<\/p>\n<p>The Romanian was number 1 in the rankings in 2017. Simona won her 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Grand Slam \u2013 Wimbledon, in 2019, where she defeated 23-time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams. Halep won her 1<sup>st<\/sup> Grand Slam \u2013 the French Open in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Halep shares on social media that she is not guilty, and she is waiting for the time when she will be able to defend herself at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In a strong statement, Simona Halep accuses the International Tennis Intergrity Agency of \u2018harassment\u2019 and \u2018trying to prove my guilt\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Says that she has \u2018clearly established\u2019 she was the victim of contamination, and that her hearing is set for end of May. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2RU9GAH5SK\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/2RU9GAH5SK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Podcast (@TennisPodcast) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisPodcast\/status\/1659660754285412353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former world number 1 and 2-time Grand Slam winner Simona Halep faces a 2nd doping indictment for an anomaly in her athlete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":436298,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17378,18069],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[18071,3333],"acf":{"announce":"The ex-number 1 was charged with 1 more doping offense.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436297"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=436297"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=436297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}