Former Romanian tennis player Ion Tiriac has become the latest name to criticise the deal between the World Anti-Doping ...

The former world No 1 won two Grand Slam titles, including Wimbledon in 2019, but the last two years have been overshadowed by her suspension for testing positive for a banned substance ...

Tennis is a lucrative sport in some countries, especially for players competing at the highest level. The four Grand Slam tournaments - Wimbledon, the US Open, the Australian Open, and the French Open ...

64 - Simona Halep is one of the nine players with more than 50 weeks as WTA World No. 1 this Century - she is the only Romanian player to achieve the #1 since the WTA Rankings were published in 1975.

Simona is an incredible athlete, and has won more WTA titles (24) than any woman Romanian tennis player in history.

As a result, this doping case was considered unintentional. The great Romanian tennis player saw her career put on hold in 2022 when she was sanctioned with a four-year ban from the courts after ...

The ATP 250 Țiriac Open, presented by UniCredit Bank, will take place in Bucharest from March 31 to April 6, 2025, with total ...

Competing at the Cluj-Napoca event in her native Romania, Halep exited unexpectedly ... conditioning required for top-level tennis. The Professional Tennis Players Association (PTPA), headed ...

Halep was a hugely popular first-time Grand Slam champion, well-liked in the dressing room and within the sport in general for her groundedness and apparent lack of ego. Her desperation to win a major ...

However, she can take solace in that she managed to finish with one final appearance in her homeland, where she is revered as the greatest Romanian tennis player since Ilie Nastase in the 1970s.

The Romanian had just bamboozled and outclassed the greatest female tennis player in the modern game in the 2019 Wimbledon final, in doing so claiming her second grand slam title. She hit just ...