Tara Moore: Former British women's doubles No. 1 handed four-year doping ban
Published 15/07/2025 at 22:24 GMT+1
British tennis player Tara Moore has been given a four-year ban for a doping offence after she tested positive for nandrolone and boldenone in 2022 following a tournament in Colombia. She returned to the sport in 2024 after an independent tribunal ruled in her favour. But the International Tennis Integrity Agency won an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport to reinstate the rest of her ban.
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Former British doubles No. 1 Tara Moore has been banned for four years for a doping offence, after the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) won an appeal.
Moore was cleared by an independent tribunal 18 months ago, but ITIA appealed that decision, and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) found in their favour.
The four-year ban has been reinstated with immediate effect, but 19 months have already been served by Moore after she was provisionally suspended when the case first arose.
At the time of the original ban in May 2022, the 32-year-old topped the British rankings for women’s doubles. She returned a positive test for nandrolone and boldenone at a tournament in Bogata, Colombia, in April that year.
A December 2023 tribunal ruled that the reason for the positive test was contaminated meat, and she returned to tennis in April last year, featuring on the ITF World Tour since her comeback.
Moore has since featured in the main draws of Wimbledon and US Open in 2024, and this year’s Australian Open.
The reinstatement of the ban means that she would only be able to resume her career at the start of the 2028 season.
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In a press release, Cas wrote: "After reviewing the scientific and legal evidence, the majority of the Cas panel considered that the player did not succeed in proving that the concentration of nandrolone in her sample was consistent with the ingestion of contaminated meat.
"The panel concluded that Ms Moore failed to establish that the ADRV (Anti-Doping Rule Violation) was not intentional. The appeal by the ITIA is therefore upheld and the decision rendered by the Independent Tribunal is set aside."
The ITIA chief executive Karen Moorhouse said: "For the ITIA, every case is considered according to the individual facts and circumstances.
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"Our bar for appealing a first instance decision is high, and the decision is not taken lightly.
"In this case, our independent scientific advice was that the player did not adequately explain the high level of nandrolone present in their sample. Today's ruling is consistent with this position.
"We understand that players and their support teams may have questions about this decision, and we will answer these fully once we have reviewed the details of the ruling."
Moore's highest world ranking in singles tennis was No. 145, and in doubles she reached as high as No. 77.
She has nine ITF Circuit singles titles to her name, with her most recent victory in 2018 at ITF Sharm El Sheikh.
In doubles, she has 18 titles on the ITF Circuit, with her last win in April this year, when she and Abigail Rencheli claimed the Palmetto Pro Open in the United States.
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