Dayana Yastremska eligible to return to competition immediately

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After her most recent hearing with the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme’s independent tribunal, suspended WTA Tour player Dayana Yastremska has been reinstated and is eligible to resume competition immediately.

Yastremska is not on the entry list for Wimbledon, which begins next Monday.

Her last match was a first-round loss to Greet Minnen at the tournament in Linz, Austria last November.

It was determined that Yastremska, 20, committed an Anti-Doping rules violation, but “without any fault or negligence on her part”.

The positive test for a metabolite of mesterolone came after an out-of-competition test on Nov. 24, 2020.

Yastremska was provisionally suspended from Jan. 7, even though she clearly had hopes she might be cleared in time to participate in the Australian Open.

She even travelled Down Under, pre-emptively.

After several appeals, one sticks

Yastremska took her case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, hoping to have her appeal considered (and be able to compete in the meantime). But the CAS dismissed the appeal in February.

She made a second appeal, to the Independent Tribunal, dismissed in late April.

But this time, her account of how the banned substance entered her system (what she has described as a “contamination event”) seems to have been good enough.

The decision is subject to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport by both WADA and the Ukrainian anti-doping organization.

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