Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep announced her retirement from tennis at age 33 after a first-round loss at a tournament in her home country of Romania on Tuesday, Feb. 4, ending an injury-filled comeback from a doping suspension.Romania's Simona Halep throws her racket into the tribune...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep, working her way back from a drug suspension, and Hall of Famer Lleyton Hewitt’s 16-year-old son Cruz were among the players awarded wild-card entries Wednesday, Dec. 18, for Australian Open qualifying next month.Simona Halep...
Flying to Florida for the Miami Open, where she would be playing in a professional tennis match for the first time in 1 1/2 years after a doping ban was reduced on appeal, Simona Halep turned to her mother and offered a bit of a confession.Romania's Simona Halep (AP/File photo)“I’m very...
MADRID (AP) — Simona Halep has received a wild-card entry to the main draw of the Madrid Open, which will be the two-time Grand Slam champion’s second tournament since getting her doping suspension reduced on appeal.Romania's Simona Halep (AP)Organizers of the clay-court tournament also handed a...
LAUSANNE (AFP) -- Former world number one Simona Halep was cleared to resume her tennis career on Tuesday, March 5, after her four-year doping ban was reduced to nine months by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).Former world number one Simona Halep (AFP/File photo)The 32-year-old, who was...
LAUSANNE (AFP) -- Former world number one Simona Halep said on Friday, Feb. 9, she was confident her appeal against a four-year doping ban would be successful after a three-day hearing before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland.Former world number one tennis player Romania's Simona...
Serbia's Novak Djokovic hits a return against Canada's Milos Raonic during their men's singles match on day seven of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on February 14, 2021. (Photo by David Gray / AFP)
Eight-time champion Novak Djokovic will test his powers of recovery against...
THRILLER - Serena Williams of the US hits a return against Belarus' Aryna Sabalenka during their women's singles match on day seven of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on February 14, 2021.(AFP)
Serena Williams outlasted big-hitting Aryna Sabalenka on Sunday in a three-set...
Australia's Lizette Cabrera hits a return against Romania's Simona Halep during their women's singles match on day one of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on February 8, 2021. (Photo by William WEST / AFP)
Fil-Australian Lizette Cabrera bowed out of the 2021 Australian Open...
WILDCARD- Fil-Aussie netter Lizette Cabrera hopes to make an impressive showing in the 2021 Australian Open. (Photo from Lizette Cabrera's Instagram account)
Lizette Cabrera, an Australian born to Filipino parents, hopes to make her presence known at the 2021 Australian Open when she faces a...
Spain's Rafael Nadal returns the ball to Italy's Stefano Travaglia during their men's singles third round tennis match at the Philippe Chatrier court on Day 6 of The Roland Garros 2020. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / AFP)
Rafael Nadal charged into the French Open last 16 on Friday and took another...
Players take part in a warm-up session on the Simonne Mathieu court during The Roland Garros 2020 French Open tennis tournament in Paris on September 26, 2020. (Photo by Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP)
Roland Garros gets underway in chilly, damp Paris on Sunday, still in the grip of the...