By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Tuesday, March 19, 202
Caroline Wozniacki and Simona Halep share the uncommon expertise of reaching world No. 1.
The pair half dramatically on their wild card views.
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Within the aftermath of her 6-4, 6-1 win over Clara Burel in Miami immediately, Wozniacki was requested her response to Halep’s Miami Open comeback from a doping suspension.
Halep efficiently appealed her four-year doping ban to the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport, profitable a lowered sentence of 4 months that enabled her to return to tennis in Miami.
Wozniacki says she opposes awarding wild playing cards to gamers who’ve served doping suspensions and believes Halep ought to “work your manner up from the underside.”
“Effectively, initially, I’ve all the time preferred Simona. We have all the time had a superb relationship,” Wozniacki instructed the media in Miami. “I feel my view on doping is similar. I’ve all the time wished a clear sport, truthful for everyone. I feel it is undoubtedly nonetheless my opinion.
“Once more, this isn’t immediately at Simona, but when somebody purposely cheats, if somebody has examined optimistic for doping… I perceive why a match desires an enormous star within the match, but it surely’s my private perception, and it isn’t a knock on anybody, but it surely’s my private perception that I do not suppose folks ought to be awarded wild playing cards afterwards.”
The 32-year-old Halep adopted Wozniacki on Grandstand Courtroom and gained the primary set earlier than bowing to former No. 2 Paula Badosa 1-6, 6-4, 6-3.
Knowledgeable of Wozniacki’s feedback, Halep replied: “I am not a cheater” including “just one particular person being unfavourable about me will not be that necessary.”
“However why? I did not do something mistaken,” Halep stated when instructed of Wozniacki’s feedback. “I did not cheat. I did not dope. So it is higher if we learn the choice from CAS that it was a contaminated complement, it wasn’t doping.
“I by no means had one thing to do with doping. I by no means doped, so I am not a cheater. Thanks to the match for giving me the wild card and have the chance to play in such an enormous match. It was nice to be again. Just one particular person being unfavourable about me will not be that necessary as a result of I’ve tons of of those that giving me love, so I’ll take that.”
The 2-time Grand Slam champion Halep examined optimistic for the banned drug Roxadustat on the 2022 US Open. Roxadustat is legitimately used for the remedy of anaemia however is on the WADA Prohibited Substance checklist as a blood doping agent, which will increase hemoglobin and the manufacturing of crimson blood cells. It has been utilized by center distance and long-distance runners prior to now.
Final month, Halep gained her doping attraction because the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport lowered her suspension from 4 years to 9 months clearing the trail for her return to the professional circuit this week in Miami.
Halep asserts she has by no means knowingly doped and attributes her optimistic check to a contaminated complement. Halep says three “world-renowned consultants” have concluded her optimistic check for Roxadustat was a results of a contaminated complement. Final month, Halep filed a lawsuit looking for $10 million in damages from the Canadian firm she claims produced the contaminated complement that precipitated her to fail the drug check and derailed her profession.
Nevertheless, the Quantum Diet founder instructed Canadian publication The Globe and Mail final October that the complement was not the reason for the Romanian’s optimistic check. He says Halep is making an attempt to scapegoat his firm as “the autumn man” for her doping suspension.
Former Australian Open champion Wozniacki, who spoke out in opposition to tournaments awarding wild playing cards to Maria Sharapova when she returned from her doping suspension for the banned substance meldonium, stated her place will not be private.
Wozniacki says “all I need is a good combat.”
“If you wish to come again, and it has been a mistake, I perceive, you need to work your manner up from the underside. That is my private opinion upon issues,” Wozniacki stated. “Simona’s scenario has clearly dragged on for a very long time. She received her suspension lowered. It wasn’t a clearance, it was a lowered sentence. She’s now been off of the sport for some time and he or she’s coming again.
“Once more, I simply hope for a clear sport. That is all I need. I wish to have good function fashions for the younger technology. It is a sport that has some huge cash in it, plenty of competitiveness, plenty of rivals. I desire a truthful combat. I’ve all the time been a really trustworthy athlete and all the time checked out every part that I’ve taken.”
Reflecting on her lowest level of her suspension, Halep stated she all the time believed the reality would prevail and he or she would play once more.
“My dad and mom all the time taught [me] that good all the time prevails,” Halep stated. “I belief it 100% from the primary day till the final day that the reality will come out and the choice shall be taken in a good manner.
“I knew I am clear. I knew I did not do something mistaken. I believed that it is inconceivable to remain 4 years for one thing that does not exist.”
Picture credit score: Matthew Calvis
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