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Simona Halep given £18,000 and is free to return to tennis immediately as doping ban is heavily reduced
Halep's initial four-year ban came about as a result of two different anti-doping code violations.
Former Grand Slam tennis champion Simona Halep has seen her four-year doping ban slashed to just nine months. The new, backdated..