{"id":482712,"date":"2026-02-21T22:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/482712\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T22:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:19:08","slug":"tennsi-player-tara-moore-accused-of-doping-blames-wta-for-ruining-her-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/482712\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennsi player Tara Moore, accused of ‘doping,’ blames WTA for ruining her career"},"content":{"rendered":"

A pro tennis player who was placed on a four-year ban over \u201cdoping\u201d accusations after eating steroid-contaminated meat at a tournament blames the Women\u2019s Tennis Association for ruining her career. <\/p>\n

Tara Moore was accused of wrong doing after testing positive in April 2022 for steroids while playing on a WTA Tour that included a stop in Bogota, Colombia.<\/p>\n

But association officials failed to warn players not to eat local meat, which they allegedly knew to be contaminated with steroids used during cattle farming in the country, <\/p>\n

\"TennisTara Moore is demanding $20 million in damages in the recent filing. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Moore said in a Manhattan Federal Court papers.<\/p>\n

Even though two other players tested positive<\/a> in Bogota on the same tour at the same time, Moore, 33, was hit with an immediate ban under the rigid anti-doping framework upheld by the Court Arbitration for Sport (CAS).<\/p>\n

The former British number one doubles player<\/a> was ultimately cleared of wrongdoing by an independent tribunal in December 2023, according to her court papers.<\/p>\n

But she was far from out of the woods \u2013 the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) appealed the decision, arguing Moore had not sufficiently proven where the\u00a0performance-enhancing drugs<\/a> in her system came from.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Moore, who holds nine singles titles and 18 doubles titles in the International Tennis Federation (ITF) circuit, was ultimately barred in July 2025 from competing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember just having this out of body experience, being like, \u2018What do you mean I failed the doping test?\u2019\u201d Moore a Brit who lives in Indiana, said on a March 2025 episode of The Scuttlebutt Club podcast<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember feeling like something just had collapsed\u2026Suddenly, I was just blacklisted from everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TennisRobert Farah was also accused of doping, but was cleared because the drugs found were attributed to contaminated meat. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Moore appealed and went to arbitration seeking the hefty payout \u2014 but now she claims the arbitrator tossed her case because they simply adopted CAS\u2019 legal framework, which assumes a player\u2019s guilt.<\/p>\n

\u201cTara Moore is a victim twice over: first of the WTA\u2019s negligence, and then of a fundamentally flawed anti-doping system that presumed she was guilty without any evidence of wrongdoing,\u201d the athlete\u2019s attorney Daniel Weiss told The Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The association \u201cpossessed concrete, actionable knowledge of a specific and well-documented danger of contaminated meat\u201d in the region, but stayed silent, Moore charged in her legal filing.<\/p>\n

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Just months before the prohibited substances were discovered in Moore\u2019s system, a top men\u2019s player, Robert Farah, also tested positive in Bogota but was cleared because the governing body responsible for anti-doping acknowledged that the meat was contaminated, she alleged.<\/p>\n

But the WTA Tour\u2019s official fact sheet did not include a warning for players not to consume local meat, like the non-profit organization had previously done, Moore claimed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, Moore wants to hold the WTA accountable for \u201cthe negligence that ruined her career,\u201d her attorney said. She has demanded $20 million in damages, according to the recent court filing.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll this petition asks is for a federal court to ensure Tara gets what she was always promised: a fair hearing based on evidence, not a presumption of guilt,\u201d he stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The ITIA and CAS declined to comment on the filing. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe arbitration was conducted by a neutral arbitrator, and there is no basis to vacate the arbitrator\u2019s award,\u201d the WTA said in a statement.\u00a0\u201cWe respect the judicial process and will not comment further while the matter is pending.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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