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WTABest WTA ranking No. 1

Simona Halep

ROU35 yrs5' 6" (1.68 m)

Best WTA ranking No. 1

Former world No. 1 and champion at Roland-Garros and Wimbledon.

Plays
Right-handed, two-handed backhand
Racket
Wilson Blade 98

Figures as of 30 September 2026.

Profile & career

One of the most consistent players of her generation.

Simona Halep is regarded as one of the best players on the women's tour of the 2010s and early 2020s, above all for her consistency. World No. 1 for the first time in 2017, she won two Grand Slam titles: Roland-Garros in 2018 and Wimbledon in 2019, where she beat seven-time champion Serena Williams in the final.

She began working with Patrick Mouratoglou in April 2022. The partnership brought a Wimbledon semi-final and a title in Toronto, but it was cut short in October 2022 when she was provisionally suspended after a positive test. The Court of Arbitration for Sport later recognised that she had suffered food contamination.

Did you know?In 2019 she became the first Romanian woman to win the Wimbledon title.

Simona Halep stretching for a forehand on grass at Wimbledon

GRAND SLAMS

Simona & the Grand Slams.

Two Grand Slam titles and three other major finals.

Australian OpenHard courtBest resultFinal2018
Roland-GarrosClay courtBest resultChampion2018
WimbledonGrass courtBest resultChampion2019
US OpenHard courtBest resultSemi-final2015

CAREER

Title highlights.

Halep turned professional in 2006 and made her WTA Tour debut in 2010, coming through qualifying at three consecutive tournaments and reaching the final of the last of them, in Morocco, where she lost to Iveta Benešová. She entered the top 100 in July 2010 after a semi-final in Biarritz, and played her first Grand Slam at Roland-Garros that same year, losing in the first round to Samantha Stosur. She went on to win 24 WTA titles, including two Grand Slams and nine WTA 1000 events, and to reach 18 other finals. She also won a doubles title in Shenzhen in 2018 with her compatriot Irina-Camelia Begu.

Junior career

  1. 2005

    Made her debut on the junior circuit.

  2. 2006

    Won her first four Futures tournaments and was selected for Romania's Fed Cup team alongside Irina-Camelia Begu and Andreea Mitu.

  3. 2008

    Australian Open junior finalist, then Roland-Garros junior champion against her compatriot Elena Bogdan. Only the second Romanian to win a junior Grand Slam title since Mariana Simionescu in 1974, she rose to world junior No. 1.

Selected WTA titles

  1. 2013

    Nuremberg (her first title, against Andrea Petkovic) · 's-Hertogenbosch (grass, against Kirsten Flipkens) · New Haven (her first hard-court title, against Petra Kvitová)

  2. 2018

    Roland-Garros

  3. 2019

    Wimbledon

  4. 2022

    Toronto (WTA 1000, against Beatriz Haddad Maia)

STATISTICS & RECORDS

The numbers of a former world No. 1.

64weeks

At world No. 1

Weeks spent at the top of the WTA rankings.

24

WTA titles

Including two Grand Slams and nine WTA 1000 tournaments.

2

Grand Slam titles

Roland-Garros 2018 and Wimbledon 2019.

Patrick Mouratoglou talking with Simona Halep on a clay court

MOURATOGLOU ACADEMY

Her link with the Mouratoglou Academy.

Simona Halep began working with Patrick Mouratoglou in April 2022. Down to 20th in the world, she had considered retiring, but training alongside the academy's young players reconnected her with her dream. “I asked to work with Patrick because I really want to get back to the top,” she said. “I'm working every day to win another Grand Slam.” Mouratoglou shared her ambition: “The idea is to do everything possible to make her the best she can be, so that when she retires she can say ‘I did the best I could’.”

After a Wimbledon semi-final and the Canadian Open title, the partnership was interrupted by her provisional suspension in October 2022. Their last victory together came in March 2024, when the Court of Arbitration for Sport accepted their arguments, recognised the food contamination and reduced her ban from four years to nine months. She returned to competition in Miami a few days later.

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GAME & EQUIPMENT

How Simona plays.

Her equipment

Simona Halep plays with a Wilson Blade 98 racket.

Train in the gear of the Academy: rackets, apparel and accessories.

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OFF THE COURT

Personal life & interests.

Simona Halep is the daughter of former footballer Stere Halep and Tania Halep. Her childhood idol was Justine Henin, for the way the Belgian played and fought despite her slight frame. She loves pizza, chocolate and fresh lemonade, and adores Paris, which she considers the most beautiful city in the world and where she won her first Grand Slam. In her spare time she enjoys shopping and walking in parks.

Simona Halep clenching her fist on a clay court

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ON COURT

Train where Simona trained.

The same courts, coaches and methodology, on the French Riviera: camps for juniors and adults, all year round.

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Aerial view of the Mouratoglou Academy clay and hard courts on the French Riviera