“He destroyed Simona Halep’s name”

Patrick Mouratoglou admitted his responsibility and his involvement in the doping issue that affected Simona Halep, but his words met the anger from the fans. Many users on X have in fact left very harsh messages against the French coach.

Halep tested positive for Roxadustat at the 2022 US Open and since then she has not played a single official match: a year later, the Romanian tennis player was disqualified for four years. Some users went so far as to say how Mouratoglou never stopped being Serena Williams’ coach and destroyed Simona Halep’s name.

Fans angry with Patrick Mouratoglou: “He destroyed Simona Halep’s name”

Patrick Mouratoglou, in a video published on Instagram, explained: “I feel confident for the future of Simona Halep with her appeal to the CAS because it is an independent tribunal.

We have been able to establish where the contamination comes from. So we proposed her to take collagen and we brought her collagen from a company. This collagen happened to be contaminated, there was no way to know it. But I feel responsible for what happened because it’s my team.