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Simona Halep has acquired a wildcard entry to the primary draw of the Madrid Open, which would be the twotime Grand Slam champion’s second event since getting her doping suspension diminished on enchantment.
MADRID: Simona Halep has acquired a wild-card entry to the primary draw of the Madrid Open, which would be the two-time Grand Slam champion’s second event since getting her doping suspension diminished on enchantment.
Organizers of the clay-court event additionally handed a wild card to a different former No. 1, Caroline Wozniacki, on Wednesday, together with veteran Kei Nishikori and 18-year-old Martín Landaluce on the boys’s aspect.
Halep, the Madrid champion in 2016 and 2017, returned to skilled tennis final month on the Miami Open and misplaced to Paula Badosa 1-6, 6-4, 6-3 within the first spherical. That was her first match in about 1 1/2 years.
Halep’s four-year doping ban that was handed down in 2023 was reduce to 9 months by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in early March.
“Muchas gracias (Madrid Open) for this wild card opportunity. Madrid has always been a special tournament for me, with happy memories and I’m grateful to be able to make more. See you soon,” the 32-year-old Romanian wrote on X, previously Twitter.
The event begins April 23.
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