Former women’s world No. 1 Simona Halep has criticized the “big difference in treatment” she received from the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) compared to the body’s handling of Iga Świątek’s failed test.

Simona Halep questioned the "big difference" in how doping cases are treated after world No. 2 Iga Swiatek was handed a one-month drugs ban while the Romanian was out of action for over 18 months following two separate anti-doping violations.

Simona Halep has hit out at what she claims is a “big difference” between the way doping cases are handled in tennis. It was revealed on Thursday that world number two Iga Swiatek had been banned for one month – the majority of it served secretly as a provisional suspension – after testing positive for the angina drug trimetazidine.