Simona Halep (32 years old, 1,136 WTA) returned to the WTA circuit this year, after her four-year suspension for doping by ITIA was reduced to nine months by TAS .
The former WTA No. 1 has only played two matches since her comeback, in the first round at the Miami Open, where she was defeated by Paula Badosa, and in the first round at Trophee Clarins , where she dropped in the second set of her match against McCartney Kessler .
Simona Halep, message for her mother on her birthday: "To the most beautiful and pure soul, happy birthday mamitzic"
Halep faced a knee injury, and now the athlete from Romania is preparing for the next competition in which she will participate.
"Simo" has a special relationship with his mother and he uses to post a special photo every year on her birthday.
This time, Simona published a photo with her mother from a vacation along with the following message: "For the most beautiful and pure soul, happy birthday mamitzic".
Simona Halep, expected at the Iași Open: "We hope she will be there"
Daniel Dobre, the director of the Iaşi Open tennis tournament, which this year will move from the WTA 125 category to the WTA 250, and which will take place between July 21-26 at the Ciric base, stated, on Thursday, in a conference of press, that Simona Halep has a wild card prepared to be able to participate in the competition.
" I found out about this news about the tournament quite late and I was a little surprised because it was planned, but for the coming years. From my point of view, having such a tournament before the Olympics, on clay, means that we will definitely have very good players.
Apart from our players from Romania, who almost as a group have confirmed their presence, Andrei Pavel wants to bring Nadal, I want to bring Simona Halep and she has a wild card ready. And we hope it will be there.
In addition to the established players, Irina Begu, Ana Bogdan, Jacqueline Cristian, Gabi Ruse, Monica Niculescu, who will come to the doubles, like last year, we have the young players who have started to confirm, Anca Todoni, Miriam Bulgaru.
So, for the girls, we will clearly have the best players from Romania, plus players from, I hope, the top 50, maybe even higher, who will want to prepare as well as possible for the Olympics in Paris, which will be on clay.
This (WTA) 250 tournament means more visibility, comes with more responsibility.
More needs to be invested, so that the show is of a higher quality, so the effort will be greater, but the results will be commensurate. I'm glad that I reached such a high level with this tournament ", declared Dobre.
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