FILE - Simona Halep, of Romania, returns a changeable to Daria Snigur, of Ukraine, during the archetypal circular of the U.S. Open tennis championships Aug. 29, 2022, successful New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
Former Wimbledon and French Open champion Simona Halep slammed the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) for the mode her ain doping lawsuit was handled compared to Iga Swiatek.
“I beryllium and effort to recognize but it is truly intolerable for maine to recognize thing similar this. I beryllium and wonder, Why specified a large quality successful attraction and judgment?’ “I can’t find, and I don’t deliberation determination tin beryllium a logical answer. It tin lone beryllium atrocious volition connected the portion of ITIA, the organisation that did perfectly everything to destruct maine contempt the evidence,” Halep said connected Instagram connected Friday arsenic per AP.
On Thursday, satellite fig 2 Swiatek accepted a one-month suspension by ITIA aft investigating affirmative for the banned substance trimetazidine, a bosom medicine known arsenic TMZ. The Polish subordinate failed an out-of-competition cause trial successful August and the ITIA accepted her mentation that the effect was unintentional and was caused by the contamination of a nonprescription medication, melatonin, that Swiatek was taking for issues with pitchy lag and sleeping.
Reacting to that, Halep, who received a four-year suspension aft investigating affirmative for the banned cause Roxadustat astatine the 2022 US Open, said that ITIA had approached the 2 identical cases precise differently.
Halep’s suspension was reduced by the Court of Arbitration for Sport to 9 months aft CAS accepted her mentation of a contaminated supplement. But, she missed 1 & 1/2 years of playing.
“I person ever believed successful good, I person believed successful the fairness of this sport, I person believed successful kindness. The injustice that was done to maine was painful, is achy and possibly volition ever beryllium painful. How is it imaginable that successful identical cases that happened astatine astir the aforesaid clip (of the season), ITIA has wholly antithetic approaches, to my detriment?” she said connected the Instagram post.
(With bureau inputs)
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