World No.1 Simona Halep put to rest the doubts surrounding the end of her season to Romanian media this week, revealing to news agency News.ro that she intends to compete at the season-ending WTA Finals Singapore presented by SC Global. 

"I feel pretty ok now. Of course I was worried, but I did a MRI and now I know precisely what's going on. I had back problems in the past, but now it's a bit more than before," Halep said at a youth tennis event at the Stejarii Country Club on Thursday.

"I will work on my recovery, doing treatment, physiotherapy, that's it, nothing else. I hope to be ready to play tournaments. I think I will have a break for another week, off-court, without tennis, then I will slowly come back.

"I was worried at the beginning, because I did not know what I had, but after I did the MRI and talked to the doctors I can say I relaxed. Of course there is a risk, any injury involves a risk, but it's not such a big risk. There is no danger of something very serious happening."

The French Open champion also dispelled rumors that she will undergo surgery for a disk hernia in her back, an issue which she revealed in social media posts on Tuesday.

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"I talked with my team, with my relatives and we decided to play. It doesn't matter what the people are saying. It does not affect me at all at this moment," she added.

"Everything that I understand it was said, that I'm doing cortisone injections or I'm going to have a surgery, is false. It is very hard to give up, to abandon matches, of course, and this year has not happened very often.

"That's why I'm going to keep my confidence high and we'll see what's going to happen in the future. I'm definitely going to the WTA Finals. The most important thing is health, but there is no question of surgery."

Halep lost her opening match at both the Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open and the China Open while being plagued by injury, which included a retirement against Tunisia's Ons Jabeur in Beijing. 

Translation provided for the WTA by www.treizecizero.ro.