By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Complete courtroom protection helped Simona Halep rise to world No. 1.
The 32-year-old Halep will seem earlier than the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport this week together with her aggressive profession hanging within the steadiness.
“My dream is to come back again at all times, irrespective of the age,” Halep stated in a current interview.
Whereas her comeback dream might not have an expiration date, Halep may win a shortened suspension—or face the truth of ban till late 2026 if her enchantment fails.
The Court docket of Arbitration for Sport confirmed that the listening to within the arbitration procedures Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company (ITIA) v. Simona Halep will happen this week—February 7-Ninth—on the CAS Headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Two-time Grand Slam champion halep will probably be current in individual for her testimony.
Witnesses and specialists will attend the listening to each in individual and remotely. The listening to will happen behind closed doorways since neither social gathering requested a public listening to.
The CAS stated Halep “won’t make any statements to the media earlier than the tip of the listening to.”
Final September, an Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company Tribunal discovered Halep responsible of committing anti-doping violations and hit her with a four-year ban.
Halep’s suspension will run from October 7, 2022 till October 6, 2026, until she wins a lowered sentence on this week’s enchantment.
In her enchantment, Halep is asking the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport to put aside the Tribunal’s resolution and cut back her suspension.
In accordance with CAS procedures, a panel of arbitrators will hear Halep’s enchantment.
Following the listening to, the panel will deliberate and challenge an Arbitral Award containing its resolution and the grounds for it.
“Presently, it’s not attainable to point a time-frame for the issuance of the choice,” the CAS stated in an announcement. “The CAS Panel’s resolution will probably be remaining and binding, excluding the events’ proper to file an enchantment to the Swiss Federal Tribunal inside 30 days on restricted grounds.”
The listening to in Halep’s enchantment will start on Wednesday, February 7 at 9:30 am with the events’ opening statements, adopted by the testimony of the very fact and skilled witnesses.
The oral closing submissions will happen on the final day. The conclusion of the listening to needs to be at round 3:30 pm on Friday, February 9, the CAS stated.
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