Tara Moore has accused the Women\u2019s Tennis Association (WTA) of failing to adequately warn players about the risk of contaminated meat at one of their tournaments amid her ongoing four-year ban from the sport.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The former British No.1 in doubles has filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York, accusing the governing body of causing \u2018negligence that ruined her career.\u2019 Moore was provisionally banned from tennis in May 2022 after testing positive for the prohibited substances boldenone and nandrolone at a tournament in Colombia. Her suspension was then lifted in December 2023 when an independent panel concluded that contaminated meat was the source of her failed test and she bore no fault.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) then appealed against that decision of no guilt to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The majority of the CAS panel sided with the ITIA and their argument that the player failed to\u00a0\u2018prove that the concentration of nandrolone in her sample was consistent with the ingestion of contaminated meat.\u2019\u00a0Moore was then banned again for four years, starting from July 2025, with 19 months deducted due to the length of her provisional suspension already served.<\/p>\n
Moore, who has always denied any wrongdoing, is now taking on the WTA. In a lawsuit that was filed on February 12th, her legal team are \u2018seeking to vacate a November 2025 arbitration award.\u2019 An arbitration award is the final legally binding decision made by an arbitrator or tribunal to resolve a dispute.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe action, brought by King & Spalding and Reeves & Weiss, claims the WTA failed to warn athletes about contaminated meat risks in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, leading to the player\u2019s positive steroid test in April 2022, despite issuing similar warnings for other locations. The suit, which seeks $20 million in damages, argues that an initial tribunal\u2019s exoneration was improperly reversed by a CAS panel that applied incorrect legal standards,\u201d\u00a0a\u00a0summary<\/a>\u00a0of the case reads.\u00a0<\/p>\n