- Investigation found Halep ‘committed intentional violations’
- Former Wimbledon winner failed doping test at 2022 US Open
The former tennis world No1 Simona Halep has been banned for four years for two breaches of anti-doping rules, the International Tennis Integrity Agency has announced.
Halep, who won the French Open in 2018 and Wimbledon a year later, tested positive for the prohibited substance roxadustat at the US Open in 2022 and was also subsequently found to have irregularities in her athlete biological passport (ABP).