Posted by Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Saturday July 20, 2024
Simona Halep'The return to the WTA Tour is on hold due to a knee problem. The Romanian took to social media on Friday to update his situation.
The Romanian, who has only played two matches since returning from the Miami Open, says he needs time to get healthy, and will not be in a rush to get back on court.
“For a few months now, I have been struggling with a knee injury,” Halep wrote in an Instagram post. “It's an injury that I've never had and it's been hard to deal with, and the pain continues.”
The former World No.1, currently ranked 1127, played a tour-level match for the first time since the 2022 US Open in Miami in March. He then retired from his match with American McCartney Kessler at the 125K event in Paris in May.
On March 5, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) reduced Halep's doping ban from four years to nine months, allowing her to begin her comeback. CAS eventually ruled that Halep's anti-doping rule violation was not intentional.
The two-time champion says he's been through a lot in the past few years, and shows he's not willing to put his mental or physical health at risk right now.
“It's been a very difficult time (about two years) mentally and emotionally for me and struggling physically on top of that doesn't help. “I decided to take the time needed to recover properly, rather than train and play through pain,” he wrote. “My idea was to try to come back as soon as possible but I'm not a machine, I'm human and I need time to recover from everything I've been through.”
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