Grand Slam tennis champion Simona Halep will get February attraction date to problem 4-year ban for doping

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep has an attraction listening to in February to problem her four-year ban for doping, the Court of Arbitration for Sport mentioned Tuesday.

The three-day listening to is ready for Feb. 7-9 for Halep’s attraction in opposition to the International Tennis Integrity Agency.

The court docket set no goal for a verdict, which may take a number of months from a panel of three judges.

The 32-year-old Halep was banned in September after an investigation into her optimistic take a look at on the 2022 U.S. Open that later included irregularities in her organic passport.

Halep, who reached No. 1 within the WTA rankings in 2017, has claimed contaminated dietary dietary supplements triggered her optimistic take a look at for Roxadustat.

The European Union’s medicines company says the substance stimulates the physique to provide extra of the pure hormone erythropoietin, or EPO which has lengthy been a doping product favored by endurance athletes.

Halep shall be 35 when her ban is because of expire in October 2026.

She received the French Open in 2018 when she beat Sloane Stephens within the closing and captured the Wimbledon title one 12 months later, beating Serena Williams.

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