Dayana Yastremska is done down under.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed Yastremska's appeal of her provisional suspension for doping.
The ruling means the ban stands and Yastremska will not be permitted to play the Australian Open, which is set to start on Monday, and is ineligible to play the pro circuit until her case has been resolved.
The 20-year-old Ukrainian flew to Melbourne hoping her appeal would be upheld and she'd be allowed to play the Melbourne major.
Yastremska was banned in January when a urine sample that she had provided for an out-of-competition test on November 24th was found to contain a metabolite of mesterolone, a synthetic testosterone, had appealed the decision, pleading her innocence.
Last month, the chair of the independent tribunal that heard her doping case denied Yastremska's appeal.
"An application by Dayana Yastremska to lift the provisional suspension imposed on her on 7 January 2021 under Article 8.3.1(c) of the 2020 Tennis Anti-Doping Programme has been denied by the Chair of the Independent Tribunal convened to hear her case,” WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) said in a statement. “This decision is subject to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport by Ms. Yastremska, WADA and the National Anti-Doping Center of Ukraine.”
Yastremska has continued to deny she knowingly violated anti-doping rules and appealed to the CAS.
Today's announcement means she's out of appeals and out of the AO.
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