Quarantined Open star's stunning drug blunder

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Ukraine's world No.29 Dayana Yastremska is stuck in hard lockdown ahead of the Australian Open despite being banned from playing due to a positive drug test. 9News

Yastremska, 20, tested positive for a metabolite of mesterolone, a synthetic testosterone, in a November 24 out-of-competition urine sample. She was provisionally suspended from January 7, ruling her out of the Australian Open.

Having arrived Down Under on a COVID-19 affected flight, she was forced into a 14-day hard lockdown and her gamble has come to disaster, with the International Tennis Federation denying the application to revoke her playing ban. Yastremska said in a statement after her positive test was revealed: "I have never used any performance enhancing drugs or any prohibited substances. I am astonished and under shock, particularly given that two weeks prior to this test, I tested negative at the WTA event in Linz.

 

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