{"id":473066,"date":"2023-12-16T11:01:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T15:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=473066"},"modified":"2023-12-16T10:15:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T14:15:48","slug":"simona-halep-says-her-career-is-probably-over-after-doping-ban","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/simona-halep-says-her-career-is-probably-over-after-doping-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Simona Halep says her career is &#8216;probably over&#8217; after doping ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simona Halep expressed uncertainty about her future in tennis if the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) does not rule in her favor regarding a four-year doping suspension, as stated by the former world number one from Romania.<\/p>\n<p>In September, the 32-year-old, a former Wimbledon and French Open champion, received a four-year ban from the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) due to two separate anti-doping rule violations.<\/p>\n<p>Having been under provisional suspension since October 2022 for testing positive for the banned blood-booster roxadustat at the U.S. Open last year, Halep announced her intention to appeal the ITIA&#8217;s decision to CAS, the highest court in sports.<\/p>\n<p>CAS announced on Tuesday that the hearing is scheduled for February 7-9.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Simona Halep appeal set for February.<\/p>\n<p>Recently in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/euronews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@EuroNews<\/a> she said,she was always been against doping.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/tennis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#tennis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6VYYBQcjzh\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/6VYYBQcjzh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FirstSportz Tennis (@FS_Tennis1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FS_Tennis1\/status\/1735932235252162702?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When asked if an unsuccessful appeal could mark the end of her playing career, Halep told Euronews: &#8220;Yeah, because four years is going to be a lot, especially for my age. And for an athlete who has dedicated their life to tennis and sport for 25 years, I don&#8217;t know how it&#8217;s going to be, but it&#8217;s catastrophic if it&#8217;s four years, and I don&#8217;t know how I will handle it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Probably, it&#8217;s going to be the end of my career, yes. And for something that I didn&#8217;t do and that is not my fault, it&#8217;s even more catastrophic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Halep expressed her hope to compete in the Paris Olympics next year if her appeal is successful. &#8220;I know there are not big chances for this, but I&#8217;m dreaming of this because Paris is my dream city,&#8221; she said in an interview published on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simona Halep expressed uncertainty about her future in tennis if the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) does not rule in her favor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":473074,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17378],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[3333],"acf":{"announce":"CAS announced that the Romanian tennis player will be banned for four years","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\/473066"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473075,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473066\/revisions\/473075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473066"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=473066"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=473066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}