Romanian tennis player Simona Halep ended an active career at the age of 33. She announced this after Tuesday’s loss in the first round at the Cluja tournament. Halep lost at the Transylvania Open with Lucia Bronzetti from Italy twice 1: 6. She was her first match this year, she received a free card from the organizers. After the match, she announced the viewer that she was over.
“I’m a realist. I know what it allows and my brain and my body no longer allow me to do it. I am happy with my career and the decision was easy for me, ” said the winner Roland Garros from 2018 and Wimbledon a year later. In 2017 she first reached the first place in the WTA ranking, now it is on the 870th place.
Last month, she resigned from the Australian Open and Auckland tournament in New Zealand for knee and shoulder pain. The last period of her career has been influenced by a doping case. At the US Open 2022 she had a positive test for the banned Roxadustat and received a four -year distance. Last March, after appealing to the sports arbitration of CAS, she reduced their sentence to nine months and Halep returned to tennis, but without much success.
