Halep Explains Why She Feels 'Confident Going To CAS' To Clear Her Name

| by Zachary Wimer

Simona Halep is currently away from tennis due to the ban imposed on her, but she's confident about returning to the sport.

She has only one way to do so: prove her innocence at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). She's been handed a heavy ban after she breached two anti-doping rules, but there is a chance that CAS will reach a different conclusion.

Halep has been making the media rounds lately to bring some attention to her case, and in an interview with Euronews, Halep talked about the case and how she breached the anti-doping rules. According to the Romanian, it's a clear contamination case, not intentional doping.

Well, yeah, they said that. But it's very clear that it was a contamination. Three days before the positive urine test, I was negative in blood and urine. So I've been told at the beginning that it's a very, it's an extremely low quantity of this substance, banned substance, and in those three days I could not have doped.

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Many people who know Halep or have worked with Halep over the years have spoken in her favor and how diligent she is about 'doing everything right.' According to her words, she didn't want to dope because it made no sense.

Athletes get caught, and she has a pretty good legacy, and ruining that made no sense.

It was not my intention and never has been the intention to do something wrong or something disrespectful to this sport, because I have respected everything and I dedicated my life. My principles are not like this, so I didn't think to cheat in tennis. The two things that... The contamination, I think it's very strong for me. And the second one, the blood, I had many, many tests and all of them were negative.

All of this gives her a lot of hope that she will get a good verdict from CAS, but we'll see. She was confident about not being banned in the first place, and here we are.

So they never found anything wrong in my blood. So with these two things, I feel confident going and facing CAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport).

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