"She's not making rational decisions": Andrea Petkovic says Simona Halep's reaction to Swiatek case based solely on 'anger'

Simona Halep has been one of the leading critics of both the Iga Swiatek and Jannik Sinner case and Andrea Petkovic on the latest episode of the Rennae Stubbs Tennis Podcast has hit back.

Petkovic said that Halep is mainly acting from a place of anger and isn't being very rational in what she is saying. She said that there is this woe is me approach which isn't really bought. Stubbs herself added that if Halep would've known where the contamination came from she too would've got the treatment that Swiatek and Sinner have seemingly got.

“She’s angry. She’s acting from emotions. She’s not making rational decisions and you can feel the tide turning on her a little bit. I think the one thing that Simona had through all of this was sympathy. People really were on her side and it’s turning this year just because she hasn’t let go. If I had been in her situation I don’t know that I could have let go either,” Petkovic said.

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“I wouldn’t have been able to as well. If I felt like I was also ripped off, I would not be throwing it on the player. I will be throwing it on the system. I would be throwing it on the ITIA. I’ll be throwing on WADA. I’d be throwing it on everyone else but the player. She should understand that if the tables are turned, she wouldn’t want Iga throwing darts at her. That’s what I don’t understand,” Stubbs added.

Iga Swiatek has been subject to major criticism since her ban was confirmed.

“If Simona had known right away where the contamination was she would have done exactly the same thing that Iga has or Jannik has. She would have tried to get away with the least impact possible on her career,” Petkovic said.

“And I think that’s where she’s losing people slightly because until now it was against the system, it was, ‘Why am I not being heard? Why is CAS taking eight months to get back to me?’ She has the right to talk about this because why isn’t she being heard when her career is on the line. She’s not 20 anymore. She doesn’t have 15 years left.”

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