Two-time grand slam champion and former world No. 1 Simona Halep has retired from tennis. The Romanian announced her decision at the Transylvania Open in Cluj, Romania on Tuesday after losing her first-round match against Lucia Bronzetti 6-1, 6-1.

The winner of 24 singles titles called an end to her career after a first-round loss Tuesday in the Transylvania Open in her native Romania.

Halep was a hugely popular first-time Grand Slam champion, well-liked in the dressing room and within the sport in general for her groundedness and apparent lack of ego. Her desperation to win a major was well known and after Halep won in Paris, Martina Navratilova joked: “It wasn’t a monkey off her back; this was an 800lb gorilla.”

Simona Halep, a two-time Grand Slam singles champion who was ranked world No. 1 in women's tennis singles for 64 combined weeks, announced her

Former world number one and two-time Grand Slam winner Simona Halep announced her retirement from professional tennis on Tuesday after losing in the first round at her home event in Cluj. Halep, whose career stalled due to a doping ban that was reduced on appeal last year,

Halep, 33, had struggled to regain her best form after being suspended in October 2022 for testing positive for a banned substance.

Simona Halep announced her retirement from tennis at age 33 after a first-round loss at a tournament in her home country of Romania.

Romanian tennis star Simona Halep has had a difficult last two years, especially after she was ranked roughly World No.1. With persistent injuries and a tough homecoming to seasoned tennis, the tennis star has started to share increasing thoughts of retirement.