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Sharapova ban reduced
- Updated: October 4, 2016
Maria Sharapova’s doping ban has been reduced to 15 months after a Court of Arbitration for Sport hearing.
Sharapova will be free to return to tennis on April 26 2017 after CAS took nine months off an initial two-year suspension for a positive meldonium test.
And the former world No 1 can now look forward to challenging for a third French Open title and a sixth Grand Slam next spring:
She said: “I feel like something I love was taken away from me and it will feel really good to have it back. Tennis is my passion and I have missed it. I am counting the days until I can return to the court.”
Sharapova’s positive test came at this year’s Australian Open less than four weeks after meldonium was added to the World Anti-Doping Agency’s list of prohibited substances.
The Russian had …
