Romanian tennis player Simona Halep
\nhas again come very close to the first position in the world’s ranking. Had she
\nqualified for the finals of the Miami tournament she would have outclassed
\nNaomi Osaka in the WTA ranking. Sadly, the Romanian conceded defeat in the
\nsemifinals to Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic. For her performance in
\nMiami, Radio Romania International has designated Simona Halep Athlete of the Week.<\/p>\n
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Simona explained that her coming
\nback into shape was possible thanks to cooperation with her new coach Daniel
\nDobre. He helped me a lot, his advice
\nproved to be very good in every match I played. The fact that I played so well
\nin such a short period of time was his merit and I am grateful that he came
\nalong, Halep went on to say. The Romanian player said she had big expectations
\nregarding the match against France in the Fed Cup semifinals due in Rouen over
\nApril 20th and 21st. I
\nam at home now ready to start training for the clay court. I cannot say we are favorites,
\nI believe the match is balanced and we stand chances to win. It will be
\ndifficult but we’ve already played against them and we know how to play, Simona
\nsaid. <\/p>\n
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Simona is presently the world’s
\nnumber two player, but she held onto the first place for 64 weeks. She won 18
\nWTA tournaments, including a Grand Slam, last year in Roland Garros. Born on
\nSeptember 27th 1991 in Constanta, southern Romania, she made her
\ndebut in 2006, when she played her first games in the ITF circuit. She joined the
\nWTA Top 100 in 2010 and in August 2014 she made it to the world’s second place,
\nthe highest position occupied by an athlete from Romania at the time. In
\nOctober 2017 she became the world’s first tennis player, which she lost briefly
\nin January 2018. She made it back to the first place in February last year,
\nkeeping that position until after the Australian Open early this year.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Simona Halep had a good run at the Miami Open<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":119347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40940],"tags":[41639,34613,28900],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-119346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-daniel-dobre","tag-miami-open","tag-simona-halep"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n