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The Court of Arbitration for Sport has reduced Maria Sharapova’s two-year doping ban to 15 months.
The Russian tennis star will therefore be able to return to competition April next year, in time for the French Open.
The five-time Grand Slam champion and former No. 1-ranked player, tested positive for meldonium at the Australian Open in January and received a two-year ban from the International Tennis Federation.
She appealed to CAS in June.
According o the arbitration panel, Sharapova “bore some degree of fault” for the positive test “for which a sanction of 15 months is appropriate.”
Her ban took effect on January 26, 2016.