MADRID — Simona Halep has acquired a wild-card entry to the principle draw of the Madrid Open, which would be the two-time Grand Slam champion’s second match since getting her doping suspension decreased on attraction.
Organizers of the clay-court match 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 lads’s facet.
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 1½ years.
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Halep’s four-year doping ban that was handed down in 2023 was reduce to 9 months by the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport in early March.
“Muchas gracias [Madrid Open] for this wild-card alternative. Madrid has at all times been a particular match for me, with completely satisfied recollections and I am grateful to have the ability to make extra. See you quickly,” the 32-year-old Romanian wrote on X.
The match begins April 23.
