Maria Sharapova has been banned for two years by the International Tennis Federation after failing a drugs test.
The Russian was provisionally banned in March after testing positive for meldonium at January’s Australian Open.
The heart disease drug, which 29-year-old Sharapova says she has been taking since 2006 for health issues, became a banned substance on 1 January 2016.
The ITF said the ban would be backdated to 26 January 2016, the day when she provided the positive test.
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