‘Devastated’ Simona Halep says doping hearing postponed again

Former world number one Simona Halep on Wednesday said her doping hearing, scheduled for this weekend, had been postponed for a third time by the International Tennis Federation.

The Romanian was provisionally suspended last October after testing positive for the banned substance roxadustat and was charged with a separate second anti-doping breach last week “relating to irregularities in her athlete biological passport”.

Halep previously complained that the ITF cancelled hearings set for February and March.

“Once again, tonight, I am devastated,” she said in a post on social media.

“The ITF (ITIA) (International Tennis Integrity Agency) has once again, for the third time …

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