Simona Halep: It is very painful to be treated differently to Iga Swiatek and Jannik Sinner

Of all the people shocked by tennis’s recent doping cases – and especially by the lenient sentences handed to Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek – nobody has expressed more self-righteous fury than that other former world No1, Simona Halep.

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