Maria Sharapova’s legal team are investigating the possibility of suing the International Tennis Federation, The Daily Telegraph has learnt, after Sharapova’s doping ban for the use of meldonium was reduced to 15 months.
Sharapova will be able to return to the tennis tour on April 26 next year, thanks to an appeal judgment handed down by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. This represented an improvement on her original sentence of two years, which had been due to run out on Jan 26, 2018.