British tennis player Tara Moore has been banned for four years for a doping offence, despite being cleared by an independent tribunal 18 months ago.

An appeal by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) has been upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

The four-year ban starts immediately, but will be reduced by the 19 months Moore was provisionally suspended when the case first came to light.

The 32-year-old was Britain's top-ranked women's doubles player when she was provisionally banned in May 2022, having tested positive for nandrolone and boldenone at a tournament in the Colombian capita,l Bogota the previous month.

In December 2023, an independent tribunal ruled that contaminated meat was the source of the positive test, and that Moore "bore no fault or negligence". The British player said she had suffered "19 months of lost time and emotional distress", and that her reputation had been damaged as a result of the case.

She returned to the tour in April 2024 and has played mostly on the ITF World Tour since. Earnings for doubles players are meagre, although Moore did make it into the main draw for Wimbledon and the US Open last year, as well as for the Australian Open this January.

But following a hearing in March, this ruling from CAS means she will not be free to play again until the start of the 2028 season.