TENNIS: Maria Sharapova suspendue deux ans pour dopage

On 26 January 2016 at the Australian Open Maria Sharapova played against Serena
Williams in the quarter-final. Following that match a sample was taken from Ms
Sharapova under the rules of the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme 2016 (“TADP”). On 2
March 2016 Ms Sharapova received a letter from the International Tennis Federation
(“ITF”) giving notice of a disciplinary charge that she had committed a contravention of
the TADP as her sample contained Meldonium, a substance which had been added to the
Prohibited List with effect from 1 January 2016.