Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep announces retirement from tennis - less than a year after the star returned from a drugs ban Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep has announced her retirement from tennis, less than a year after embarking on a comeback after her doping suspension expired.
Halep confirmed her retirement following her first singles match of 2025, having already been forced to withdraw from the Australian Open and warm-up events for the first Grand Slam of the year due to injury issues.
The former Wimbledon and French Open champion was cleared to return last March after the Court of Arbitration for Sport reduced her doping ban from four years to nine months.
Halep was thrashed 6-1, 6-1 by Italy's Lucia Bronzetti at the Transylvania Open in Cluj on Tuesday, the Romania's home event on the WTA Tour.
Halep returned to the sport last March after the CAS reduced her doping ban from four years to nine months.
