Simona Halep admits she is feeling “huge stress” over the doping ban as the former world No 1 never thought she would find herself in such a situation. In October, the ITIA provisionally suspended Halep after she tested positive for anti-anaemia drug Roxadustat.
Halep has been adamant from Day 1 that she is innocent and she has been fighting ever since to clear her name. “I don’t really know how I am because the situation has been really hard. Emotionally, it’s heavy. The stress is huge because I never thought I would face something like this.
I have always been against doping, as I am a big supporter of clean sports. So at the beginning, I didn’t know how to handle it. Over time I just tried to stay calm and actually, I feel confident because I know I’m clean and I didn’t take anything knowingly that is banned.
I mean: a bad substance. It makes me feel a little bit better but I’m trying to handle it as much as possible,” Halep told Tennis Majors.
Halep just wants to present her case
According to Halep, a group of experts found out how the banned substance got into her body and it was determined that she didn’t knowingly take the prohibited substance.
“After a lot of work, they found out that there was a contamination, a supplement contamination, and that’s…
