"Simona Halep's Confident Return: Doping Ban Appeal Explained"
Former Wimbledon and French Open champion Simona Halep is confident in her return to tennis after appealing a doping suspension that could potentially end her career. The 32-year-old Romanian player has been provisionally suspended since October 2022 after testing positive for roxadustat, a banned drug, and facing another doping offense due to irregularities in her athlete biological passport. Halep has blamed contaminated supplements for her positive test and is awaiting the ruling from the Court of Arbitration for Sport.