Former Wimbledon and French Open champion Simona Halep expressed dismay at the way Iga Swiatek's doping case was handled compared to her own
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ITIA announced a one-month ban for Swiatek after the 23-year-old had tested positive for banned substance trimetazidine
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Halep, who initially received a four-year ban for doping, said there had been severe differences in how their cases were treated by tennis authorities
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"I wonder why there is such a difference in treatment and judgment? I don't find and I don't think there can be a logical answer," Halep wrote on her Instagram
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"I lost two years of my career, I suffered many sleepless nights, thoughts, anxiety, unanswered questions... but I got justice. It turned out that it was a contamination and that (the anomaly in my) biological passport was pure invention," she wrote
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Halpe's suspension was reduced by the Court of Arbitration for Sport to 9 months after CAS accepted her explanation of a contaminated supplement