Simona Halep Withdrawn from US Open Due to Doping Suspension
Doping Controversy Surrounding Former Champion Casts Shadow on US Open
On Monday, Simona Halep was distant from the US Open arrangement on account of a tentative loading suspension. The US Tennis Association disclosed that Halep, a erstwhile No.1 performer and defraud victory champion, was "as a matter of usual practice remote" when the characterizing draw for the series was transported. As a result, Taylor Townsend took Halep's place usually draw for the mothers's single occurrence at Flushing Meadows, accompanying play launching on August 28.
During a tentative delay ending, a player is unavailable to take part in or accompany some authorized occurrences. Halep proven beneficial for the outlawed element Roxadustat at the previous old age's US Open, in accordance with the International Tennis Integrity Agency. Roxadustat is a drug certified for healing use in the European Union to accomplish chlorosis syndromes provoked by never-ending kind failure. It provokes the frame's result of erythropoietin (EPO), a instinctive birth control method that has happened historically popular by cyclists and distance hurdlers as a deadening product.
In May, Halep confronted a second deadening claim on account of irregularities in her Athlete Biological Passport. She was plant No. 7 in the 2022 New York occurrence but endured a first-round defeat to Daria Snigur of Ukraine.
Hailing from Romania, Halep, old 31, first worked out the No. 1 including in the WTA rankings in 2017. Her notable talents contain triumphant the French Open in 2018 by overpowering Sloane Stephens in the last and acquiring the Wimbledon title in 2019 following in position or time triumphing over Serena Williams.
Throughout the process, Halep has usually insisted her innocence and signified disappointment over the extended experiments. Following her tentative delay, she established, "I have existed informed that I have proven positive for a meaning named Roxadustat in an intensely depressed quota, that happened as the greatest shock of my history. Throughout my whole career, the plan of lying never even hindered my mind previously, as it is completely against all the principles I have happened learned accompanying."
