Former world No.1 Simona Halep has been dropped from the US Open area due to a provisional doping suspension.
The US Tennis Association introduced that Halep, a two-time grand slam champion, “was automatically withdrawn” when the match’s qualifying draw was held.
Halep’s spot in the principle draw for the ladies’s singles match in Flushing Meadows went to Taylor Townsend. Play begins on August 28.
During a provisional suspension, a participant is ineligible to compete in or attend any sanctioned occasions.
Halep, who reached the ultimate of the Australian Open in 2018, examined constructive finally 12 months’s US Open for the banned substance Roxadustat, in line with the International Tennis Integrity Agency.
That is a drug accredited for medical use within the European Union (EU) to deal with the signs of anaemia brought on by power kidney failure.
According to the EU’s medicines company, it stimulates the physique to provide extra of the pure hormone erythropoietin, or EPO, which has lengthy been a doping product favoured by cyclists and distance runners.
Halep was accused of a second doping offence in May over alleged irregularities in her organic ‘athlete passport’.
She was seeded No.7 in New York in 2022 and misplaced within the first spherical to Daria Snigur of Ukraine.
The 31-year-old Romanian first reached No.1 within the WTA rankings in 2017.
She gained the French Open in 2018 by beating Sloane Stephens within the closing, and Wimbledon in 2019 with victory over Serena Williams within the title match.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
