Simona Halep Cleared to Resume Tennis Career After Doping Ban Reduction

Former World No.1 Simona Halep's four-year ban for doping has been reduced to nine months by the Court for Arbitration for Sport, allowing her to immediately resume her tennis career. The ban was reduced after Halep's appeal, which argued that she tested positive for a banned substance due to a contaminated nutritional supplement. The CAS ruled that Halep had established, on the balance of probabilities, that the substance entered her body through the supplement and that her anti-doping violations were not intentional. The WTA has expressed support for the CAS decision and welcomed Halep's return to play.