MADRID, 4 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Romanian tennis player Simona Halep, former world of the world, has announced her withdrawal from professional tennis after suffering a defeat in her first 2025 match, in the Cluj Tournament (Romania).
The two-time champion of ‘Grand Slam’, 33, only won two games in the game against the Italian Lucia Bronzetti, which won 6-1 and 6-1 in just 59 minutes. Afterwards, the surprising news of Roland Garros 2018 and Wimbledon 2019 arrived.
“Tonight, I don’t know if with joy or sadness, I think both feelings are testing me, I make this decision with my soul. I have always been realistic with myself and with my body. It is very difficult to get where I was, and I know what it means to arrive.
“It’s the last time I play here and I don’t want to cry. It’s very nice. We see each other again.
Halep, who was sanctioned with four years of doping that were reduced to nine months after positive in the prohibited substance ‘Roxadustat’, had last competed in the WTA circuit in October in Hong Kong (China).
The 33 -year -old player also played an exhibition tournament in Abu Dabi in December, but subsequently withdrew from the previous phase of the Australian Open alleging to knee and shoulder pain.
Earlier this week, Halep admitted that retiring was “very often.” “I am old, I have injuries that I cannot recover. My knee does not recover,” he then confessed to the Romanian website.