{"id":706721,"date":"2023-05-20T00:31:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=706721"},"modified":"2023-05-20T03:32:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T03:32:24","slug":"former-world-no-1-charged-with-second-doping-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/tennis\/former-world-no-1-charged-with-second-doping-violation","title":{"rendered":"Former world No. 1 charged with second doping violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simona Halep, a two-time Grand Slam champion and former top-ranked WTA player, was given a second charge for doping, as reported by ESPN. This second infraction, as announced by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA), is &#8220;separate and in addition to&#8221; a provisional suspension she was given last summer after failing a drug test during the U.S. Open.Weeks after her first-round loss in the New York-hosted Grand Slam, the ITIA revealed a positive test for&#160;roxadustat. Used to treat anemia, roxadustat increases red blood cell production and has been notable as a performance enhancing drug in pro cycling. The second charge,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simona Halep, a two-time Grand Slam champion and former top-ranked WTA player, was given a second charge for doping, as reported by ESPN. This second infraction, as announced by the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}