Simona Halep ends the 2021 season ranked 20th in the WTA , the lowest ranking since 2013. The 30-year-old player announced her schedule for January 2022.
Halep plays in three tournaments in Australia
Simona Halep will start the 2022 season in Australia . Tennis Australia has announced a record number of ATP and WTA tournaments in January 2022 ahead of the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the year.
First, Simona will participate in the Melbourne Summer Set competition , a WTA 250 category tournament, between January 4-9.
Then, Simona Halep will go to Sydney, for a WTA 500 category tournament, scheduled for January 10-15.
Both tournaments will be broadcast live on Digi Sport. Simona Halep’s matches will be in LIVE VIDEO and LIVE TEXT format on digisport.ro.
The third tournament for Simona Halep in 2022 will be the Australian Open, scheduled for January 17-30, in Melbourne.
2021, the year of negative awards for Simona Halep
Simona Halep’s record in 2021: 25 wins, 10 losses. He played a WTA final in Cluj-Napoca. He reached the quarters at the Australian Open and the round of 16 at the US Open.
Simona Halep has been affected by injuries this year: to the right shoulder (Miami, March), to the left calf (Rome, May) and to the adductor muscles of the right thigh (Cincinnati, August).
Simona Halep started 2021 on the 2nd place in the WTA. The Romanian left the WTA Top 10 for the first time in seven and a half years (since February 2014) and missed qualifying for the Tournament of Champions, for the first time since 2014.