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Sharapova ban decision in October
- Updated: September 13, 2016
Maria Sharapova will discover next month whether her two-year ban for taking a banned substance will be enforced by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
Earlier this year, the 29-year-old Russian was suspended by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) after failing a drugs test for Meldonium at the Australian Open in Melbourne.
However, she claims her mistake was an oversight because the substance – which was only added to the banned list by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in January of this year – is also commonly known by another name.
The five-time Grand Slam winner admits to testing positive for Meldonium, saying she had taken the drug for 10 years but was unaware that the substance had been banned because it is often …
