{"id":68977,"date":"2024-03-08T20:21:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T20:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/halep-to-return-from-doping-ban-in-miami-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T20:21:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T20:21:06","slug":"halep-to-return-from-doping-ban-in-miami-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/halep-to-return-from-doping-ban-in-miami-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Halep to return from doping ban in Miami | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nINDIAN WELLS:
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Former world number one Simona Halep<\/a> will resume her WTA career in the wake of a doping ban at the Miami Open this month, the Romanian said on Instagram on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Just two days after her four-year ban was reduced to nine months and she was cleared by the Court of Arbitration for Sport for an immediate return, Halep said she had accepted a wild card into the main draw of the prestigious hard court event in Florida — the second half of the “Sunshine Double” after this week’s event at Indian Wells, California.<\/p>\n

“I’m thrilled to let you all know that I will be making my return to the WTA Tour in two weeks at the Miami Open!” Halep, who last played at the 2022 US Open, posted.<\/p>\n

“Thank you to the tournament for giving me this opportunity and I cannot wait to be back on court and competing. See you all soon!”<\/p>\n

The two-time Grand Slam singles champion was suspended last September by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) after two separate doping infractions the previous year.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old appealed to CAS in February, arguing her positive test for Roxadust — used to treat anaemia and banned as a blood doping agent — was the result of a tainted supplement.<\/p>\n

CAS determined that Halep had “established, on the balance of probabilities” that the banned substance did come from the contaminated product and her violations were therefore “not intentional.”<\/p>\n

CAS also ruled that “irregularities” cited by the ITIA in Halep’s biological passport, a longterm monitoring tool of an athlete’s blood indicators that can indicate doping, did not, in fact, support “the doping scenarios put forward by the ITIA”.<\/p>\n

Halep had protested her innocence and refused to accept the ITIA decision, which would have kept her off the courts until October 6, 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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