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The world beneath Simona Halep’s feet crumbled last year when she was found guilty of doping. The two-time Grand Slam champion has now been banned from tennis for four years, until 2026, but she’s hoping that ruling will soon be reversed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. A hearing for her case has been set in February after the International Tennis Integrity Agency found she deliberately took performance-enhancing drugs. Halep however, says that the verdict is wrong. “It’s very clear that it was a contamination. Three days before the positive urine test, I was negative in blood and urine….