By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Saturday July 20, 2024
Simona Halep’s comeback to the WTA Tour is in a holding sample because of a lingerning knee difficulty. The Romanian took to social media on Friday to replace her standing.
The Romanian, who has performed simply two matches since her comeback commenced with a return to the tour on the Miami Open, says she wants time to get wholesome, and won’t rush a return to the courtroom.
“For a number of months now, I’ve been battling a knee damage,” Halep wrote in an Instagram submit. “It’s an damage I’ve by no means had earlier than and it has been a troublesome one to handle, with the ache persisting.”
The previous World No.1, at the moment ranked 1127, performed a tour-level match for the primary time for the reason that 2022 US Open at Miami in March. She then retired from her match with American McCartney Kessler at a 125K occasion in Paris in Might.
On March 5, the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) diminished Halep’s doping ban from 4 years to 9 months, which allowed her comeback to start. The CAS ultimately dominated that Halep’s anti-doping rule violations weren’t intentional.
The 2-time main champion says she has been via quite a bit in the previous couple of years, and signifies that she is unwilling to place her psychological or bodily well being in danger in the meanwhile.
“It has been a really troublesome interval (nearly two years) mentally and emotionally for me and struggling bodily on high of that undoubtedly doesn’t assist. I’ve determined to take the time wanted to get better correctly, slightly than coaching and enjoying via ache,” she wrote. “My intuition has at all times been to attempt to come again as quickly as doable, however I’m not a machine, I’m a human being and I want time to get better from every little thing I’ve gone via.”
