WTA Linz: Simona Halep serves in Austria thanks to a wildcard
The former world number oneSimona Halep will start thanks to a wildcard at the WTA 250 tournament in Linz.
by Nikolaus Fink
last edit: Oct 27, 2021, 05:50 am
Great news for Austrian tennis fans: Simona Halep will take part in the WTA 250 event in Linz this year. As the organizers announced on Tuesday, the Romanian received a wild card for the tournament in Upper Austria.
In addition to US Open winner Emma Raducanu, another Grand Slam champion will be playing in Linz. Halep has won two major events in her career so far: she won the French Open in 2018, and a year later the 30-year-old fulfilled her childhood dream with triumph at Wimbledon.
This season, however, things did not go quite according to plan for the Romanian: Halep fell back to 18th place in the world rankings and is still waiting for her first tournament victory. This was also due to a calf injury, due to which the 30-year-old missed the French Open, Wimbledon and the Olympic Games.
Not least because of this, Halep is looking forward to her performance in Upper Austria: "I'm really looking forward to playing in Linz again for the first time since 2012. I couldn't play as much this season as I planned, so it's a great opportunity for me to be able to play another indoor tournament. I hope that I will end the season with a highlight in Linz and I would like to thank the tournament director Sandra Reichel for the wildcard. "