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Matt Verri

Simona Halep provisionally suspended after tennis star tests positive for banned substance at US Open

Former world number one Simona Halep has been provisionally suspended after failing a doping test.

The International Tennis Integrity Agency confirmed that the two-time Grand Slam champion tested positive for the banned substance Roxadustat, an anti-anaemia drug which stimulates the production of red blood cells, at the US Open in New York last month.

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