Former Wimbledon and French Open champion Simona Halep slammed the Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company (ITIA) for the best way her personal doping case was dealt with in comparison with Iga Swiatek.
“I sit and attempt to perceive however it’s actually unattainable for me to know one thing like this. I sit and marvel, Why such an enormous distinction in remedy and judgment?’ “I can’t discover, and I don’t assume there generally is a logical reply. It may possibly solely be dangerous will on the a part of ITIA, the organisation that did completely all the things 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 constructive for the banned substance trimetazidine, a coronary heart medicine referred to as TMZ. The Polish participant failed an out-of-competition drug take a look at in August and the ITIA accepted her clarification that the end result 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 obtained a four-year suspension after testing constructive for the banned drug Roxadustat on the 2022 US Open, stated that ITIA had approached the 2 an identical instances very otherwise.
Halep’s suspension was lowered by the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport to 9 months after CAS accepted her clarification of a contaminated complement. However, she missed 1 & 1/2 years of enjoying.
“I’ve at all times 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 perhaps will at all times be painful. How is it attainable that in an identical instances that occurred at about the identical time (of the season), ITIA has fully completely different approaches, to my detriment?” she stated on the Instagram submit.
(With company inputs)