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After the best tennis watch he had ever played, Simona Halps kneel and distrussed her box. The Romanian had recently passed the Bamboo and the biggest female tennis player in the 2019 Wimbledon final, claiming the title of the second Grand Slam title. He reached only three compulsory errors throughout the race, and one sentence was rarely said: Serena Williams was powerless.
It was a seismic moment, not only for Holps but for ladies and the next generation behind Williams. In his early years at the age of 27, Halo retained his number 1 ranking, and his appearance seemed limitless.
But almost six years later, as Holpe said on Tuesday after a 6-1 kick by the 72nd world of Lucia Bronze in his home competition, his legacy is complicated.
“I don’t know with happiness or sadness, I think they both try my feelings but I decide with my own soul.”
“Where I was probably, it is very difficult to get there and I know what it means to get there. It’s a beautiful thing. I was in the world number 1, I won the Grand Slam, that’s the only thing I wanted to live, and I hope to see each other again. “
Halep speaks after two and a half temptation that is spent more than tennis. In October 2022, Romania was temporarily suspended by the International Tennis Tennis Agency (ITIA) after a positive test for the banned substance for Roxadustat, blood amplifier, in 2022 Open Open.
Irregularities were also found in his biological passport – a test system for creating a athlete’s blood profile over the years – with the results of “suspicious” in season 2022.
About a year later, Halep was banned for four years, but in the last February, the CAS appealed to nine months, because CAS with a Halpt order “on the probabilities balance” Roxadustat to target. He did not find that the Romanian man had always insisted that he did not deliberately consumed the drug, with his former coach Patrick Mratoglu blaming a collagen supplement to his nutrition program in the summer of 2022.
“This collagen has become infected,” he said in November 2023.
“I feel about what happened, because this is my team – so I, basically – who brought this collagen to him.”
Throughout the epic, the Halpt was a string and described it as the “hardest race” of his life. In the end, it was a situation that the path that returned up to the top was impossible.
Whatever the way you look at, it has been unfortunate that a job halps can only wish when training as a teenager in the coastal town of Constanta, on the Black Sea coast.
His first WTA title in 2013 was in his favorite clay in Nuremberg, who quickly followed five more titles in the same year. Halep has been at the top 10 for 373 consecutive weeks since 2014-2021 and appeared as one of the women’s tennis players, who is in the final stages of the world’s largest tournaments.
However, he was not frustrated in the early 20s. After blowing a set and an advantage of failure in the 2017 French final to the unique teenager, Jelna Ostaphenko – her third defeat in the Grand Slam final – is about whether Holpe has ever reached a professional tennis.
But a year later, in the same circumstances in the Philip-Chatter court, Hulp this time won a set and a defeat for the defeat of Sloane Stephens in the final to claim his first Major. His relief was felt throughout the game.
That 56 -minute warm warmth of stunning athletes and exceptional defense skills in the center of 2019 in 2019 for Importance. In fact, he never reached the Grand Slam final.
He was beaten by CoVID in 2020 and then injured in 2021, which eventually never recovered. His final title was achieved in August 2022 with the WTA 1000 victory in Toronto. A few weeks later, he was experimenting with positive Roxadustat.
Despite clearing a year ago – and returning to a wild card in Miami – continuous knee pain does not disappear. An exhibition event in Abu Dhabi in December also saw his experience of shoulder pain, and this article looked at the wall when he left Australia last month.
However, he can calm down in the fact that he has been able to end with the final appearance in his homeland, where he is respected as the greatest Romanian tennis player since Eli Nastaz in the 1970s. Halep achievements, including 24 WTA titles and 64 weeks in the world number 1, are exciting.
However, during the time when the heroes of Grand Aslam Janik Sinner and Iga Seviatak have also been experimenting with the forbidden material, the Romanian calamity cannot be ignored when discussing his career and generally a bad look at sports. The Hulp peak was great-and none of Wimbledon’s final performance was better at the SW19 grass at all times.
But his legacy is now complicated. In the last two years, sharply tight.
