Open champion in 2014, and former top-15 pro Viktor Troicki was suspended for 18 months for failing to provide a blood sample in 2013. Marin Cilic received a nine-month ban, before the Croatian became the U.S. ![]() If she is given a full suspension, Sharapova would, easily, become the highest profile tennis player to be sanctioned. The WTA will support the decisions reached through this process.” “This matter is now in the hands of the Tennis Anti-Doping Program and its standard procedures. Nevertheless, as Maria acknowledged, it is every player’s responsibility to know what they put in their body and to know if it is permissible. “Maria is a leader and I have always known her to be a woman of great integrity. “I am very saddened to hear this news about Maria,” Simon, who became CEO in October, said in a statement. ![]() Steve Simon, CEO of the WTA women’s tour, was “saddened” by the development but said it was down to Sharapova to make sure she knew the rules. Hold your horses everyone- about Maria- I don't have all the facts, I hope it's an honest mistake,stuff was legal as far as I know till 2015- Martina Navratilova March 7, 2016 I really hope that I will be given another chance to play (tennis).” “I know that with this I face consequences and I don’t want to end my career this way. I have been playing since the age of four a sport that I love so deeply. I let my fans down and I let the sport down. “I received an email on December 22 from WADA about the changes happening to the banned list and you can see prohibited items, and I didn’t click that link. WADA stated in September that the drug would be added to the prohibited list and Sharapova blamed herself for not taking note. In a statement on its website, WADA said meldonium was prohibited because of evidence of its use by athletes “with the intention of enhancing performance.” The anti-ischemic drug can aid oxygen intake and recovery. ![]() Her revelation came on the same day that Russia’s Olympic ice dance gold medalist Ekaterina Bobrova said she failed a doping test for the same drug. Her family also has a history of diabetes, she added. Sharapova would later say she began taking the medication, which can be used to treat heart issues, after irregular EKGs and being deficient in magnesium. But on January 1 the rules had changed and meldonium became a prohibited substance, which I had not known.” “It’s very important for you to understand for 10 years this medicine was not on WADA’s banned list and I had been legally taking the medicine for the past 10 years. Is Maria Sharapova's failed drug test career ending?
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