Former world primary Simona Halep has accused the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) of looking for to additional delay her unbiased tribunal doping listening to and stated she is being denied her proper to be heard. The 31-year-old former Wimbledon and French Open champion has been provisionally suspended since October 2022 after testing constructive for banned blood-booster roxadustat on the U.S. Open final 12 months.

Halep has strongly denied knowingly taking the banned substance and has stated she has proof to point out that small quantities of the anaemia drug entered her system from a licensed complement that was contaminated. Halep has stated she despatched proof in regards to the contamination to the International Tennis Federation in December and hoped her case could be heard by an unbiased tribunal in February however that it was postponed and a brand new date in March was additionally put again.

Last week Halep was charged with an extra and separate breach of the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme and requested once more to be judged by an unbiased tribunal. In a press release posted on Twitter, Halep stated that whereas the ITIA was publicly stating it was dedicated to partaking her in an “empathetic, efficient and timely manner” they had been on the similar time requesting the tribunal delay her listening to for a 3rd time.

“I am once again extremely shocked and disappointed by the ITIA’s attitude,” she added. “The ITIA publicly states one thing while privately doing another, I have repeatedly asked for my hearing and the ITIA has repeatedly sought to delay it.”

The unbiased ITIA, which was established by tennis’ worldwide governing our bodies to supervise integrity issues akin to doping and corruption, didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark out-of-hours by Reuters. It has beforehand stated the method was “ongoing” according to the World Anti-Doping Code.

“When is it going to stop? I ask the question once again,” stated Halep. “I am entitled to a quick hearing. Acting this way is contrary to my rights.”

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