British doubles participant Tara Moore has made her return to the game after a two-year absence for a doping ban which was later overturned.
Moore teamed up with compatriot Annali Olivelle to win an ITF World Tour first-round match on the Italian island of Sardinia.
They beat the Italian pair of Melania Delai and Francesca Tempo 10-6 in a deciding tie-break in Santa Margherita di Pula.
“If somebody informed me two years in the past I’d be enjoying tennis once more I might have by no means believed it,” Moore posted on X.
“It wasn’t fairly and it wasn’t my favorite floor nevertheless it nonetheless means greater than something.”
Moore and Olivelle will share simply $196 (£156) for reaching the quarter-finals.
The 31-year-old was provisionally banned in Could 2022 after testing positive for nandrolone metabolites and Boldenone whereas competing within the Colombian capital Bogota the earlier month.
The ban was lifted final December when an impartial panel dominated contaminated meat was the supply of her failed take a look at.
The tribunal discovered Moore “bore no fault or negligence” for her adversarial analytical discovering, however that ruling is being challenged by the Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company.
The attraction will happen on the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport however a date is but to be set.
Moore was Britain’s main ladies’s doubles participant, reaching a career-high rating of 77th on the earth earlier than she was provisionally banned.
She is presently unranked, however arrange a fundraising web page earlier within the yr to assist fund her coaching and bills – together with “meals, journey and ongoing authorized charges”.