Simona Halep finished the 2021 season in Linzand has already started preparations for the next year.
On her personal Instagram account, the athlete published a photo in which she appears with trainers Daniel Dobre and Adrian Marcu and physical trainer Teo Cercel.
Teo Cercel returned to Simona Halep’s team
” Everyone is home now. Thank you guys for being my team and my family. Let’s get down to business, but first, let’s smile. For Teo, the smile is still an ongoing process ,” Simona Halep wrote on Instagram.
Thus, Teo Cercel returns to Simona Halep’s team after a break of almost two years. The two collaborated until the Australian Open 2020, a tournament in which, during the match with Ajla Tomljanovic, the athlete complained to the physiotherapist that she felt tired.
Teo Cercel returned to Simona Halep’s staff after leaving Sorana Cîrstea’s team, where he was between June 2020 and November 2021.
Season 2021 without a trophy won by Simona Halep
Simona Halep ended a trying 2021 season, caused by injuries, in which she failed to win a single trophy,
The athlete, ranked 20th in the WTA, was the closest to winning a trophy in Cluj-Napoca, at the Transylvania Open, where she lost, however, in the final to Anett Kontaveit, score 2-6, 3-6.
In the last tournament of the season, WTA Linz, Simona Halep reached the semifinals, but was forced to withdraw before the match in which she was supposed to meet Jaqueline Cristian due to medical problems.
