Tennis Caroline Wozniacki and Simona Halep / Photo: Profimedia
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28.03.2024, 08:44
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First match for Simona Halep (32 years) since returning to the circuit WTA was in the first round of the Miami Open, where she was defeated by Paula Badosascore 6-1, 4-6, 3-6,
The former WTA leader received a wild card from the organizers to participate in the competition in the United States, which caused a real dispute in the tennis world.
Andy Roddick ruled Caroline Wozniacki in the dispute with Simona Halep
Caroline Wozniacki, who returned to tennis after she became a mother for the second timeargued that athletes suspended for doping should not receive wild cards.
Former ATP leader and US Open winner Andy Roddick had a new reaction on this topic and recalled Simona Halep’s statements about Maria Sharapova’s return to the circuit after being suspended for doping.
Also, the former Grand Slam winner proved Caroline Wozniacki was right about the players suspended for doping.
“What throws things into a slightly strange area is Simona Halep’s statement in 2017, when Sharapova returned to the circuit after the doping scandal: ‘Never, under any circumstances, should anyone who tests positive receive a wildcard.’
I agree 100% with that and I also 100% agree with what Caroline said. You have to start from scratch, work hard to prove you deserve to be back, show us you’re clean.
It’s true, in Simona’s case, the team made a big mistake. From this point of view, I have sympathy for Halep, but that does not mean that you have to blindly trust the team, as she did.
She says: ‘I didn’t dope’. Actually, it’s correct: ‘I didn’t dope on purpose’. Because the test was positive, we are only talking about the existence of the intention or the lack of it, because doping existed.”Roddick said on his “Served with Andy Roddick” podcast.
Simona Halep, sharp answer for Caroline Wozniacki: “They better read the report! I’m not a cheater!”
After the statements made by Caroline Wozniacki to Simona Halep, the athlete from Constanța responded to the Digi Sport microphone.
“There are also negative people, that’s definitely possible. I trained with her in Monaco and she didn’t express anything negative towards me, but now she has.
I think they should read the TAS decision, because I was never a cheater and there was no question that I ever doped. It’s just a supplement contamination.
I only took 9 months (no suspension) because it was a supplement contamination. If I had been able to play since July last year, as I should have, because I only took 9 months of suspension, I wouldn’t have needed the wild card.
So they should read the report better, that I’m not a cheater and I’ve never doped”Simona Halep EXCLUSIVELY told Gabriel Morariu, Digi Sport’s special envoy to Miami.
Danish Caroline Wozniacki, 33 years old, former WTA number 1, like Simona Halep, currently ranked 129, knows the Romanian well, whom she has met 7 times.
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