By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Complete court docket protection helped Simona Halep rise to world No. 1.
The 32-year-old Halep will seem earlier than the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport this week together with her aggressive profession hanging within the steadiness.
“My dream is to return again all the time, irrespective of the age,” Halep stated in a current interview.
Whereas her comeback dream might not have an expiration date, Halep might win a shortened suspension—or face the truth of ban till late 2026 if her attraction fails.
The Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport confirmed that the listening to within the arbitration procedures Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company (ITIA) v. Simona Halep will happen this week—February 7-Ninth—on the CAS Headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Two-time Grand Slam champion halep shall be current in particular person for her testimony.
Witnesses and consultants will attend the listening to each in particular person and remotely. The listening to will happen behind closed doorways since neither occasion requested a public listening to.
The CAS stated Halep “won’t make any statements to the media earlier than the tip of the listening to.”
Final September, an Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company Tribunal discovered Halep responsible of committing anti-doping violations and hit her with a four-year ban.
Halep’s suspension will run from October 7, 2022 till October 6, 2026, until she wins a lowered sentence on this week’s attraction.
In her attraction, Halep is asking the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport to put aside the Tribunal’s resolution and scale back her suspension.
In accordance with CAS procedures, a panel of arbitrators will hear Halep’s attraction.
Following the listening to, the panel will deliberate and subject an Arbitral Award containing its resolution and the grounds for it.
“At the moment, it isn’t attainable to point a timeframe for the issuance of the choice,” the CAS stated in an announcement. “The CAS Panel’s resolution shall be closing and binding, excluding the events’ proper to file an attraction to the Swiss Federal Tribunal inside 30 days on restricted grounds.”
The listening to in Halep’s attraction will start on Wednesday, February 7 at 9:30 am with the events’ opening statements, adopted by the testimony of the very fact and knowledgeable witnesses.
The oral closing submissions will happen on the final day. The conclusion of the listening to ought to be at round 3:30 pm on Friday, February 9, the CAS stated.
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