Knee Damage Curtails Simona Halep’s Comeback

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Saturday July 20, 2024

Simona Halep’s comeback to the WTA Tour is in a holding sample because of a lingerning knee concern. The Romanian took to social media on Friday to replace her standing.

The Romanian, who has performed simply two matches since her comeback commenced with a return to the tour on the Miami Open, says she wants time to get wholesome, and won’t rush a return to the court docket.

“For a couple of months now, I’ve been combating a knee harm,” Halep wrote in an Instagram submit. “It’s an harm I’ve by no means had earlier than and it has been a troublesome one to handle, with the ache persisting.”

The previous World No.1, at the moment ranked 1127, performed a tour-level match for the primary time because the 2022 US Open at Miami in March. She then retired from her match with American McCartney Kessler at a 125K occasion in Paris in Could.

On March 5, the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) diminished Halep’s doping ban from 4 years to 9 months, which allowed her comeback to begin. The CAS ultimately dominated that Halep’s anti-doping rule violations weren’t intentional.

The 2-time main champion says she has been by means of rather a lot in the previous few years, and signifies that she is unwilling to place her psychological or bodily well being in danger in the intervening time.

“It has been a really troublesome interval (nearly two years) mentally and emotionally for me and struggling bodily on high of that positively doesn’t assist. I’ve determined to take the time wanted to recuperate correctly, slightly than coaching and taking part in by means of ache,” she wrote. “My intuition has all the time been to attempt to come again as quickly as doable, however I’m not a machine, I’m a human being and I would like time to recuperate from all the pieces I’ve gone by means of.”