Romania's Simona Halep, former world number one in the women's singles, tested positive in a doping test held at the US Open this year, and the tennis fraud monitoring organization = ITIA has provisionally suspended Halep. I have been disqualified.
According to the ITIA, Halep was found to have the banned drug 'roxadustat' in a doping test at the US Open in August.
For this reason, the ITIA announced on the 21st that Halep was provisionally suspended.
Regarding this, Halep updated his Twitter and said, "I was notified that I had tested positive for a very small amount of a prohibited drug." I believe that the truth will come out as we fight to the end to prove that it was not ingestion."
Halep, who is currently ranked ninth in the world, won her first Grand Slam title at the 2018 French Open and won the Wimbledon Championship the following year.