Simona Halep has introduced her retirement after struggling a powerful defeat in her first match of 2025.
The previous world No 1 belatedly bought her season beneath means in her house occasion, the Transylvania Open, in Romania on Tuesday, after being handed a wild card.
However the two-time Grand Slam champion gained simply two video games as Italy’s Lucia Bronzetti powered to a 6-1 6-1 victory in simply 59 minutes.
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Talking in an on-court interview, Halep mentioned: “Tonight, I do not know if it is with pleasure or unhappiness, I believe each emotions try me however I am making this resolution with my soul.
“I’ve at all times been real looking with myself and with my physique.
“The place I most likely was, it’s extremely arduous to get there and I do know what it means to get there. That is why I wished to return right here at present in Cluj to play in entrance of you and say goodbye.
“Despite the fact that my efficiency wasn’t superb it was nonetheless my soul and I am very glad you got here, and I am going to surprise if I am going to come again once more. However for now it is the final time I’ve performed right here and I do not wish to cry.
“It is an exquisite factor. I turned world No 1, I gained Grand Slams, it is all I wished. Life goes on, there may be life after tennis and I hope that we’ll see one another once more.
“I am going to come to the tennis right here as usually as I can and naturally I’ll proceed to play – however to be aggressive it requires way more and at this second it’s not.”
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Halep, who was given a four-year doping ban that was decreased to 9 months resulting from a contaminated complement, final competed on the WTA Tour in October in Hong Kong.
The 33-year-old additionally performed in an exhibition occasion in Abu Dhabi in December, however subsequently pulled out of qualifying for the Australian Open, citing ache in her knee and shoulder.
