The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) revealed Thursday that Swiatek, world No. 2, had tested positive for a banned substance, but the four-time Roland-Garros winner nevertheless only received a fine. short suspension.
“I wonder why such a difference in treatment and judgment? I don’t find and I don’t think there can be a logical answer,” Halep lamented in a long message posted in Romanian on her Instagram account.
“It can only be bad will on the part of the ITIA, the organization which did everything to destroy me despite the evidence. It wanted to destroy the last years of my career at all costs,” assures -she.
First suspended until 2026 for a positive test at the 2022 US Open, and an anomaly on her biological passport, Halep saw the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) reduce the sanction to nine months in March 2024, which allowed him to return to the courts.
“I have suffered, am suffering and perhaps always will suffer from the injustice done to me. How is it possible that in identical cases taking place around the same time, the ITIA has completely different approaches to my detriment,” asks the 33-year-old player, who has fallen to 877th in the world.
“I lost two years of my career, I lost a lot of sleepless nights, thoughts, anxiety, unanswered questions… but I got justice. It turned out that he s “was a contamination and that (the anomaly of her) biological passport was a pure invention”, affirms the Romanian, titled at Roland-Garros in 2018 and at Wimbledon in 2019.
