Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep has an enchantment listening to in February to problem her four-year ban for doping, the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport stated Tuesday.
The three-day listening to is about for February 7-9 for Halep’s enchantment in opposition to the Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company.
The courtroom set no goal for a verdict, which may take a number of months from a panel of three judges.
The 32-year-old Halep was banned in September after an investigation into her constructive check on the 2022 U.S. Open that later included irregularities in her organic passport.
Halep, who reached No. 1 within the WTA rankings in 2017, has claimed contaminated dietary dietary supplements brought on her constructive check for Roxadustat.
The European Union’s medicines company says the substance stimulates the physique to provide extra of the pure hormone erythropoietin, or EPO which has lengthy been a doping product favored by endurance athletes.
Halep will probably be 35 when her ban is because of expire in October 2026.
She received the French Open in 2018 when she beat Sloane Stephens within the last and captured the Wimbledon title one yr later, beating Serena Williams.