2019 Wimbledon Championship winner expressed her desire that she wants to be out of politics while she was asked questions related to banning Russian and Belarusian players from the tournament.<\/p>\n
Halep is currently a participant in the WTA Mutua Madrid Open and is scheduled against top-seeded Paula Badosa next for the Round of 32 in Madrid, Spain. The player had a straight to forward reply to the situation as she said, \u201cI don\u2019t want to talk about politics, because it\u2019s politics, in my opinion,\u201d reported\u00a0Raquet magazine\u00a0<\/em>senior editor and tennis journalist Ben Rothenberg. The 30-year-old further said that tennis is an individual sport and according to what she thinks, players who are suffering the prohibition being from Russia and Belarus are not their fault.<\/p>\n Simona said she is against war and is upset about what is going on in Ukraine. The player believes it will end soon. Former World No. 1 Halep also supported the decision of players from Russia to play without their flag being displayed, \u201cThey took the flag off, so I think that was a good move.\u201d According to Romanian, the rest of the things which players suffer are \u201cpolitics\u201d.<\/p>\n Wimbledon has currently restricted the participation of players from Russia and Belarus at the upcoming Grand Slam championship in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Simona is set to face Badosa at the WTA Mutua Madrid Open. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":38123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3296,3297,3238,1419,250],"class_list":["post-17378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-madrid-open","tag-mutua-madrid-open-2022","tag-paula-badosa","tag-simona-halep","tag-wimbledon"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}