British tennis player Tara Moore has been banned from professional tennis for four years following a doping violation.
The ruling, issued by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), overturns an earlier decision that had cleared her.
The ban is effective immediately, though it will be reduced by the 19 months Moore already served under provisional suspension. This means the 32-year-old will not be eligible to play again until early 2028.
Moore, who was Britain’s top-ranked women’s doubles player, was provisionally suspended in May 2022 after testing positive for nandrolone and boldenone.
While an independent tribunal cleared her in December 2023, attributing the positive test to contaminated meat, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) appealed that decision.
CAS ruled that Moore failed to prove the doping violation was unintentional or consistent with contaminated meat ingestion.
ITIA Chief Executive Karen Moorhouse noted that their scientific advice indicated Moore didn’t adequately explain the high levels of nandrolone.
