Simona Halep speaks on suspension, being back on tour | Full Interview
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- čas přidán 14. 05. 2024
- Simona Halep sits down with Jon Wertheim to discuss her suspension and the joy of being back on tour.
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Simona, happy to see you back! Wishing you a long career ahead!
Simona i am just so so happy that you are back, i really missed you on tour and i always trust in you 100%. You re the reason why tennis is my favourite sport cause you were the first tennis player i watched back in 2017. I m glad you re back!! Romania e alaturi de tine si te sustinem🇷🇴
Welcome back Simona and wishing you the best of luck‼️💖💪
I sincerely hope you come back to your best Simona. Your smile when you win is like sunshine for my soul. x
LOVE THIS! I hope, above the odds, Simona can get back the very top of the game. Nothing is given freely in sport, but a return to the top is "deserved" in my opinion, after weathering this ordeal.
Welcome back you will always be one of my favorite players we love you❤🎾
Welcome back Simona ❤
Simona is so sweet ... French Open qualifying , should be fun ... World #1153 to top 10 , will also be fun , Simo with a restart ... I have faith ...
I’m so happy for her she came back 💪💪💪
I love watching Simona play tennis. To many noisy or boring players, Simona was neither. She was fun to watch and root for.
Such a good interview. :)
Nice Interview and THANKS!!!
what a star she is !
Her smile is everything 🥰
Te iubim Simona,sanatate si keep fighting!
Loved, loved, loved this interview! Great questions, great atmosphere! Simona, you're a wonderful young lady, on and off court! ❤
You're an inspiration, standing your ground and fighting those vicious ITIA clowns. ITIA should really be investigated - it's simply unacceptable how they conducted themselves. Thank you Simona's lawyers Howard and Bogdan, for fighting the good fight beside Simona and beating the big team of top lawyers ITIA had. 🙌
Very very happy to see Simona back on court. She put up her fight because she knows that she is innocent.
That smile!❤
Always believed in her. Simona is integrity personified.
Great piece, Mr. Wertheim!
Not just innocent but beautiful, inside and out.
Simona is a luminous queen ❤ That lightness feeling she was talking about shines in her eyes. So glad the ordeal is over and CAS saw through ITIA's bullshit.
Wishing you all the best and much health! Mereu alaturi de tine Simona! Iti doresc sanatate, bucurie si meciuri frumoase!
Simona❤💪
Simo!💜
Sasha 💜 Simo ret. 2day , hopefully precautionary ... She can qualify for the French ... She needs matches so perhaps this is the best route ...
@@D...M...A... She will not play French, she did not get a qualifying wild card or main draw wild card. She is out completely! She has a wild card next at Rabat, but I doubt she's going....seems to be an issue with the knee since Miami. Hasn't gone away! Don't know when we will see her again. Maybe Wimbledon!
@@sashasmith707 I trust you , yet I checked qualifying rules and I was sure , she met the criteria ... She looked so good today , rusty but slowly feeling .the ball more and more ...Thought she retired to save it for the French... Could you text her and get the low-down ... ?
@@sashasmith707 F me , you're right ...
Upon further review of the situation I hate the French...
Effing Frenchie's stacked the field with Frenchies...
And there is such a thing as a qualifying wildcard so of course you're right as usual...
But at we will always have Paris...
( line from Casablanca )
unfortunately the Paris 125...
She looks so cute today did you see your Sasha...?
@@D...M...A... Yes she does need a qualifying wild card she is ranked 1153 in the world. She will not be at the French Open!
Liking this Wertheim fellow...he should be on a podcast, with like a former world no 1 or something :)
Dream big, Simona! You can do it!
Te iubesc Simona 🫶
Finally u r back, it took ages...
Simona so good to see you back! I hope your relentless fight for the truth will lead to some changes in how athletes are treated. ITIA have been so rabid and unprofessional, going to any extent to destroy Simona based on their made-up scenarios. I truly hope ITIA will be held accountable for their abusive ways.
Thanks to Mr. Wertheim for conducting this interview so well !!
It’s still pretty crazy that she won Wimbledon of all tournaments. Roland Garros sure, she probably should have won 3 of those. But Wimbledon? Doesn’t suit her gameplay style at all, but she did develop more power and better tactics. Plus there were some years there when I probably could have won Wimbledon (when Serena was out and players like Kerber, Woz, Garbiñe all took turns winning grand slam events and becoming #1 for a short period.
So glad your back 😁😁😁😁
“You’re “
So didnt Sharapova... but I guess the media also plays a huge part on how the public reacts to one or another honest mistake.... Have nothing against halep, but she was one of the first to speak out against Sharapova, who also unintentionally doped, whose substance was banned overnight and therefore she was positive
Double standarts as usual against Russia. But karma doesnt play )
Double standards at its peak. Nocovid keeps skipping antidoping controls and gets away with it
I want to send my respect to Rolland Garros organization for not giving a wild card to a cheater but instead to young, clean and promising players.
This is what tennis channel should be doing. Take a note from “Good Trouble” and make this a real sports channel
As she [Martina Navratilova] approached her 50th birthday in 2006, she decided to leave the tour circuit
Why did ypu accept a wildcard after what you said about Sharapova in 2017? She took responsibility for the failed doping test and did not complain about what her colleagues said, as you did instead.
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So smart. So beautiful.
As she said, the rules are the rules and why take supplements?
Keep in mind her two doping violations were not overturned - they were reduced.
@@Ge0rGi. No. Sharapova never claimed to get meldonium from supplements - she made up a story that she had a heart condition since she was 18 but gave no proof for this.
But it was not about overturning violations, was it? It was all about proving intention. Simona never sought to overturn the test results but fought to prove that she did not intentionally take drugs. And she proved her case so she is right to claim that she did not cheat. But she still had to be penalised for testing positive alone based on the notion that for every action, whether accidental or not, there is a consequence. Just like Djokovic when he, out of frustration, hit a ballperson in the neck with a tennis ball at the US Open. He did not intend to hit her but because his action caused injury to another, he had to suffer the consequence of that action. The question is about the severity of the penalty. Simona should have been given 3 instead of 9 months (or 4 years!) for testing positive, IMO and Djokovic should not have been defaulted but penalised a game for hitting a ballperson with a tennis ball out of frustration.
Her biological passport charge was completely overturned. Her charge based on positive Roxadustat test at the 2022 US Open the contamination was reduced to nine months. The media release states that, although she was strictly liable for having a banned substance in her system, she sufficiently established that her supplement was contaminated and that she bore "no significant fault or negligence."
They did her so damn dirty she should sue the WTA
She was never "cleared" from doping accusations. Her sentence was just shortened. I know why Simona is trying to change the narrative, but why is TC helping her?
There was never any intentionally doping ,like sharpova , Simona's supliments were contaminated
@@Ge0rGi. Oh please///Sharapova mistakenly took a drug which was completely fine for years but one month
@@dontbabyme She took a drug mistakenly? That's what the players staff should do, to follow what substances are legal or not, that's why she was paying them lots of money. Simona or the staff couldn't do anything,the supliment was contaminated
I’ve lost the little respect I had for her to begin with.
She took zero accountability and constantly blamed others and is now playing a victim even though she was found guilty and banned for a year.
100%
you are not wrong. COuldve just said it happened and moved on but no... shift blame
When many were trying to blame Patrick, she made it clear she was not blaming him or his team. It is clear she was the victim of a contamination which she had no "significant fault." This conclusion is from the press release but I would be interested in seeing CAS's decision when it is released and how her lawsuit against the supplement company plays out.
@@johnporter77 Don’t you find it strange that not a single tennis player who failed a doping test (apart from Sharapova) admitted to taking an illegal substance. Every single player who failed a drug test said it was contamination and they took a performance enhancing drug by “accident”?
@@regulusarcturus And even Shara was like…I take full responsibility, BUT I need it for health reasons and didn’t know it was banned. Kinda sus there too in my opinion. No one likes to get caught out.
It's time to take some responsibility. They can''t all be wrong.
Now doping users counterattack. This is shameful.
Sometimes u just have to believe in karma! Halep was very vocal about Sharapova case, who mistakenly took one month a drug which WAS COMPLETELY LEGAL for years but one month she took it. Nobdy gave her easy time back then, even tho Im pretty sure Sharapova did it by mistake too. So...
Simona was always innocent
So all players need to do is pay for a lab to test any new product they take or they could get 9 months for a mistake that should be the total responsibility of the supplement manufacturer - who would suffer nothing for it. Great isn't it?
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the contaminated supplement excuse is always hilarious
exactly!
Not an excuse. Do you know Darren Cahill, now Jannik Sinner's coach? He used to be Simona's coach. He stood up strongly for her, vouching for her good character.
Someone who bothers me the most in all this is Serena Williams' ex-coach Patrick Mourataglou, who was the person that gave her the collagen supplement (a powder) in the first place and how silent he was after the ITA came after her.
It's only very recently that he admitted the supplement came from him. Simona has since said she will never again put blind faith in the people who make up supplements for her.
She's always been a down-to-earth, straight-forward, no-nonsense kind of person. She's intensely opposed to athletes who dope. It's fitting and fair that she has been cleared of these allegations. I really wish her the best going forward. I'm glad she's back.
@@ksc743 righttt because she was the only player in tennis who took that contaminated supplement. How come no one else test came back positive????
@@orenthaljames2534 you do know that elite athletes travel with a team right? A sports nutritionist, a fitness coach, tennis coach, a physio and in some cases a sports psychologist.
Supplements are specifically tailored to the needs of the individual depending on their blood work and various other tests.
The collagen sachets would have been delivered directly to her. Her team should be held accountable as well. Patrick Mouratoglou apologised for giving her the supplement but Simona was held solely responsible. They are blaming her but clearly there was a chain of command.
You know huh? Now THAT is ridiculous.
Simona's awesome, great to have her back! Get rid of Wozniacki!!
She’s back but she’s not back…many withdrawals
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Yes glad she’s back but what’s she got 125 tournaments nothing more no wild cards into slams the wta has done here in not restoring here ranking which should have been done, but she got into bed with the devil aka mouratogalue who was sent by a certain us player to do her in.
Halep bad player steroid 🌌☂️
I want to believe her, I think I do believe her…it’s just a shame there will always be a cloud over her career because of this. I still think she makes the Hall of Fame. I don’t trust Patrick Mouratoglou and his team, he seems to have been involved in more than just one controversy. I mean didn’t Sasha Baijin start his career as trainer for Mouratoglou? Anyway, I guess we’ll never REALLY know, not 100%, but Simona’s character and humility give her the benefit of the doubt, in my mind.
Contrast that with Sharapova, who is always self-serving and PR savvy, and whose body language and practiced “regretful” voice and facial expressions would only fool a Trump or Brexit voter. Of course Maria knew what she was doing, and she did it for a long time (although meldonium wasn’t banned, I believe she was taking it for years as a PED and not for medical reasons). But I guess everyone will always have their own opinions.
Why are you deflecting to Sharapova? This is about Halep and her “innocent till proven guilty” obfuscation when under the TADP, it is “strict liability”, or at least should be for all athletes.
Also, Halep is lying about being cleared and found innocent, and your credulity of her demonstrably false statements makes your Sharapova bashing even more suspect.
Humility? She doesn’t even think she made a mistake or something.
What happened with her marriage? Anyone know the story there?
I hope she stays clean. It’s not fair because others who cheat were not caught but the lying is also such a shame. Every athlete caught always lies because they fear the repercussions. Sucks both ways. She looks horrible lying but others are never ever caught.
How do you know she's lying?
@@sashasmith707 Anyone who has followed her career and this case closely knows she is NOT lying.
@@johnporter77 I know! Simo is my girl💜, she always seems very honest to me and never have anything bad to say about anyone.
CAS said she bore some fault, therefore she is not cleared or innocent, and when Halep claims that she is, she is lying.@@sashasmith707
Definitely Patrick has to do something with it. He was cheating in a match with serena, his values are not clear to me.
He's been unusually quiet since this story broke. He's someone who likes the limelight, always somehow in the news, but we don't hear from him. His values are not clear to me either.
yes she's a super nice person. but she got caught and she needed to serve full consequence for it. it's very unfortunate 'certain' athletes get away with cheating and some don't. "i don't know how that got in there" still needs to be punished. athletes need to ask if their supplements are clean and not on banned substance list. it is in the RULES and it is there responsibility as she stated in this video!
Patrick Mouratoglou handed her the supplement (collagen powder). She had absolutely no reason to think there was anything in it other than what was stated on the label. Darren Cahill, now Jannik Sinners coach, used to be Simona's coach, said she would never knowingly do something like this.
There was never any intentionally doping ,like sharpova , Simona's supliments were contaminated
guys, i completely agree and believe in what you are saying. but if you can take the specific player out of the equation and just focus on facts, it clearly states in the rules that all players are responsible for what we put in our bodies. so even if someone in our team hands up stuff, we need to verify that it has been checked for any banned substances. it is quite simple really.
@@crosscourtwinner that's why tas left her with that 9 month suspension,that was the punishment for that mistake
@@crosscourtwinner it's not simple tho. As a sports professional your coach should be one of the ppl you trust most in the world. It should be a given that any supplements you receive from them are free of banned substances. It's not like you have a testing kit there and then. She has always been clear she is anti-doping. Someone dropped the ball on this one and it wasn't Simona.
Cool, so if we put the PEDs in supplements, we can then say it was a mistake and face fewer consequences. Nifty! Thanks for the tip. Noted for future tournaments.
So that means either she's a victim of a micro-error by someone she's trusted... Or she's actually did this intentionally to boost her game?
Is that what it means?
I love how it was so easy for everyone, the tribunal included, to believe and forgive her and not Maria. It’s sickening
Move on please, Sharapova has and is living her life.
Simona's and Maria's cases were not the same. Maria admittedly took the substance at issue and was clearly negligent in "not checking her emails" to find out it had been placed on the banned list. Simona was the victim of a contamination in which she was found to bear "no significant fault." Since she did receive 9 months, I will look for when the CAS decision is released to see what any fault is based on.
Maria was obviously lying, that’s the difference. You don’t have to be a trained body language expert to know that when she “sort of” apologized but then shifted into a full-on PR offensive to save her reputation and sponsorship, and her career if possible. She wrote a book, went on a huge press tour telling her “humble Siberian girl with no money” success story to everyone who would listen, and basically going on what politicians call a charm offensive. Look, I’m not saying she wasn’t a great player. She was. But I don’t believe for a second she took meldonium for a heart condition, and failed to list it for years, nor to I believe that someone as meticulous and even mercurial as she is would just overlook the fact it became banned. I think she wanted to beat Serena at the AO and cut it too close and when they tested her immediately after she got busted.
Who cares what you believe? Meldonium is unproven as a PED to this day and was permissible to take prior to Jan ‘16, and “Shara” had documentary and testimonial evidence that her Jan’ 16 use was an. administrative oversight . Unlike Halep, who has repeatedly made demonstrably false statements, such as she was “cleared” and “innocent” - and this is who you choose to believe?
I can see why you want to deflect to Sharapova and your dubious “body language” expert claims, since Halep is a demonstrable liar.
If you need to rely on a body expert, and an imaginary one, at that, then it’s not obvious lying, just your subjective (biased) take. Unlike Halep, who is “obviously” lying about being cleared by CAS. Cleared and innocent people don’t serve bans.@@dukeon
Innocent until proven guilty? How can someone with a positive test be innocent ? In her case what is difficult to prove is her innocence and basically CAS took her word as the truth in some parts of the resolution.
Double standarts as usual..would never happen to russian athlete
@@dontbabyme Double standards are so crazy these days that Israel committing a genocide in Gaza and USA that is providing the weapons and money to do it will be allowed to use their flags in the olympics and Russia won't, people has to wake up !!!!
Patrick and Serena sauce for disaster
Look at Serena body now 😮why she can come back ???? So many tennis players had 2 baby’s and they still playing at the best level 🎉something is smelly here 😊
Cheat!!!🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
You were looking in the mirror when u said that 😂
I’m confused: did she take the drug or not???
Her coach was in charge of her supplements. I mean, if you're an elite athlete, paying someone who is supposedly trustworthy to formulate the best supplements for you, you don't have them re-tested by another lab to make sure there's nothing illegal in them. You need to trust your team. She did and they dropped the ball. Badly.
@@ksc743 It was mainly the supplement company's fault for sending a contaminated supplement. I haven't heard any reason why Simona or Patrick's team had to suspect that they would receive a contaminated supplement. Haddad Maia's suspension was partially upheld because there were apparently signs that her supplement company was untrustworthy that she should have been aware of. Simona did receive a nine-month suspension but she was found to have "no significant fault" as reported in the press release. The CAS's written findings have yet to be released so it will be interesting to see what basis they have for the nine-month suspension.
@@johnporter77 it is a curious case. I buy a collagen supplement which is packaged in a 500g tub. I imagine Simona probably gets hers in daily sachets for ease of travel. Either way, that banned substance got in there somehow and yes, the company definitely should be held accountable as well. No one has even mentioned them. It will be interesting to read the final analysis wrt this case. I firmly believe in Simona's innocence. I don't understand the 9 month ban tbh.
@@johnporter77 I replied but they removed my comment. Smh. Basically, I agreed with most of what you said except for the bit about Mouratoglou.