 After being provisionally suspended for almost a full year, Simone Halep's doping case has come to some sort of conclusion with her getting banned for four years from the tour. Let's go have a look at what the ITIA had to say in their statement. So this is what the ITIA had to say. On the 11th of September 2023, the tribunal confirmed that it had found the player had committed intentional anti-doping rule violations under Article 2 of the TADP. The presence and use of Rockster Duster as evidenced in Halep's urine sample collection on 29 August 2022 at the US Open. Use of a prohibited substance or method during 2022 based on collection and analysis of 51 blood samples provided by the player as part of the ABP program. Tribunal accepted Halep's arguments that they had taken a contaminated supplement but determined the volume the player ingested would not have resulted in the concentration of Rockster Duster found in the positive sample. The ABP charge was also upheld with the tribunal stating that they had no reason to doubt the unanimous strong opinion reached by each of the three independent athlete passport management unit experts that likely doping was the explanation for the irregularities in Halep's passport. Halep has been provisionally suspended since October 2022 which the tribunal accredited against the period of ineligibility. As such, the former world number one suspension will run from the 7th of October 2022 until the 6th of October 2026. The case remains subject to appeal. There you have it. Massive news coming out of the Simone Halep doping scandal I guess you could call it now. Four years including the provisional suspension of the last year so three years till now. So 2026 and remember Halep is not mid 20s where she could come back at 28 or come back and play. She's 31 so it means you can come back and play at 34. Now there are players playing at 34. There's a lot of players playing. You know you can play as like as a ranker itself so she can't come back. That's a long time to be away from the game. Four years especially at this part of her career she can appeal as they said they're subject to appeal. We will talk about her response as well and also her coaches and everything coming up in the next couple of hours. But man, massive story. After a year of being provisionally suspended now she is found that suspension will be upheld for another three years. Let me know down in the comments below. What do you think of this? There are calls also for her being stripped of her titles from Wimbledon and other tournaments that she's won over the time now. I don't know if that's fair because of course it only goes back to October of last year and she of course won Wimbledon three years before. So that's a little bit harsh if it wasn't found five years ago, six years ago. I feel like stripping titles from a pre this situation would be a little harsh. But let me know down in the comments below. What do you think of this? And will Simone Halib actually come back in three years time?