Still officially “provisionally suspended” for doping, Simona Halep is surprisingly featured on the US Open 2023 entry list! Reassuring us that we may well finally see the Romanian play a tournament are her recent training videos posted on social media.
The former world No.1 Halep’s process has been dragging on forever. Since October last year she’s been waiting to be judged. The WTA champion hasn’t competed since testing positive for roxadustat at the 2022 US Open. Even though she insisted that the prohibited substance found in her body was a result of a contamination event, the situation went from bad to worse when she got charged with an additional anti-doping breach, related to irregularities found in her Athlete Biological Passport (ABP).