She has no ranking points and will start from the scratch but high profile tournaments offering her wild-card is not right as it is setting the wrong trend. We know that she will complete her ban in April but that doesn’t mean a welcome gesture is needed...
If any sport star is caught in a doping offense, he or she should get all the blame. We have seen that players make all sort of excuses to prove that they had nothing to do with it and it happened by a chance. The same was done by the former world number one tennis star Maria Sharapova of Russia. However, the good news for her is that she is about to complete her ban term on 25th April. The Women Tennis Association (WTA) has confirmed that Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova has all the right to participate in the tennis tournament in Stuttgart in April, according to a statement from the association. The 29-year-old Sharapova has already picked up wildcards for tennis tournaments in Stuttgart, Madrid and Rome, as she is making her return to the circle of the WTA following her suspension for doping rules violation. “Five-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova becomes eligible to play WTA tournaments on Wednesday, April 26, following a 15-month suspension,” the statement from the WTA said.
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