Maria Sharapova

Lausanne: Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova hailed the reduction of her two-year doping ban yesterday as one of the "happiest days" of her life, immediately targeting a return to action in April 2017. The Lausanne-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) cut to 15 months Sharapova's ban imposed by an independent tribunal appointed by the International Tennis Federation for testing positive for meldonium.