Tennis, Halep says enough: "It was beautiful"

The one lost today at home against Lucia Bronzetti in Cluj (1-6, 1-6) It was the last match of his career Simona Halep. The Romanian tennis player former world number one WTA, and winner of two Slam titles, he announced immediately after his retirement from professional tennis. A surprise only up to a certain point, given that the champion 33enne in recent days he had hinted at a possible decision of this type due to the ongoing knee problems. ''These days I have often thought about what my future would be - Halep said. Tonight I don't know if it is with sadness or with joy, or with both these feelings. I felt I had to make this decision also because I have always been honest with myself and with mechanical my body, which will never be what it was again. It's difficult to be here with what it means. That's why I decided to come here to Cluj, to play in front of you and say goodbye on a tennis court. This was the last time I played here and I don't want to cry. It was a beautiful adventure: I was number one in the world, I won Slams, in short everything I ever wanted. But life goes on, there is so much more than tennis and I hope that you and I will meet again". Halep had triumphed at the Roland Garros in 2018 and Wimbledon in 2019. She was then involved in an affair of doping in October 2022, which was followed by a very long legal process and then the disqualification at the end of 2023, initially for four years and then reduced to nine months: the taking of the prohibited drug, Roxadustat, had in fact been accidental. The return to the field in March 2024, but with increasing difficulties due to injuries. Until today's announcement of the retirement.