The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) today reduced the suspension imposed on Romanian tennis player Simona Halep for violating anti-doping regulations from four years to nine months.
That nine-month suspension period expired last July, so the two-time Grand Slam champion can return to tennis.
After a three-day hearing in early February, CAS determined that her positive test for a banned substance "entered her body by consuming a contaminated supplement" and that the anomalies in her biological passport could be linked to the "contaminated supplement."
In September, the International Tennis Integrity Agency suspended the two-time Grand Slam champion for four years for two separate anti-doping violations.
At the US Open in 2022, Halep tested positive for a banned substance that stimulates the production of red blood cells, and then last May she was charged with irregularities in her biological passport.
In 2018, Simona Halep won the title at Roland Garros, and a year later at Wimbledon. The Romanian won 24 singles titles and earned more than $40 million in tournament prize money. She was first on the WTA list in 2017 and 2018.
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