Former Wimbledon and French Open champion Simona Halep slammed the Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company (ITIA) for the way in which her personal doping case was dealt with in comparison with Iga Swiatek.
“I sit and attempt to perceive however it’s actually inconceivable for me to know one thing like this. I sit and surprise, Why such an enormous distinction in remedy and judgment?’ “I can’t discover, and I don’t assume there could be a logical reply. It could solely be unhealthy will on the a part of ITIA, the organisation that did completely every part to destroy me regardless of the proof,” Halep stated on Instagram on Friday as per AP.
On Thursday, world quantity 2 Swiatek accepted a one-month suspension by ITIA after testing optimistic for the banned substance trimetazidine, a coronary heart medicine often known as TMZ. The Polish participant failed an out-of-competition drug take a look at in August and the ITIA accepted her rationalization that the outcome was unintentional and was brought on by the contamination of a nonprescription medicine, melatonin, that Swiatek was taking for points with jet lag and sleeping.
Reacting to that, Halep, who acquired a four-year suspension after testing optimistic for the banned drug Roxadustat on the 2022 US Open, stated that ITIA had approached the 2 similar circumstances very otherwise.
Halep’s suspension was diminished by the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport to 9 months after CAS accepted her rationalization of a contaminated complement. However, she missed 1 & 1/2 years of enjoying.
“I’ve all the time believed in good, I’ve believed within the equity of this sport, I’ve believed in kindness. The injustice that was executed to me was painful, is painful and possibly will all the time be painful. How is it doable that in similar circumstances that occurred at about the identical time (of the season), ITIA has utterly completely different approaches, to my detriment?” she stated on the Instagram put up.
(With company inputs)
