TENNIS

User Rating: 0 / 5

Serena Williams reminds everyone that barriers still exist in women’s sports. (Adam Davy/Reuters/Pool)

Serena Williams is closing out 2016 by offering an inspirational message to female athletes, a message she delivered with all the power that marks her game.

User Rating: 0 / 5

Andy Murray says Maria Sharapova deserves a ban after she failed a test for a performance enhancing drug and has questioned her explanation that she took it for health reasons. Photograph: Matthew Stockman/Getty Images

• World No2 says it is wrong to take a drug just for performance
• Murray also criticises his sponsor, Head, for extending Sharapova’s contract

User Rating: 0 / 5

Rafael Nadal is among other athletes named on the latest list ©Getty Images

Four-time Olympic athletics champion Mo Farah and 14-time Grand Slam winning tennis player Rafael Nadal are among another 26 athletes whose leaked data has been revealed by hacking group Fancy Bears after a cyber-attack on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

User Rating: 0 / 5

Kristina Mladenovic claims all the other players see Maria Sharapova as a cheat. Photograph: Rafiq Maqbool/AP

• Mladenovic: ‘She has been taking this for 10 years and it is a serious drug’
• Simona Halep: ‘I didn’t speak to her before, so there is no reason to speak now’

User Rating: 0 / 5

Maria Sharapova wrote in a statement on her Facebook page that warnings received over meldonium were ‘too hard to find’. Photograph: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images

No matter what the intricacies of the tennis star’s case are, the number of failed tests since the drug was banned demonstrates widespread misuse

User Rating: 0 / 5

President Anthony Carmona was among those who attended the funeral service of former T&T tennis coach and umpire Carlos Taylor at the Covenant House of Praise in Diego Martin, yesterday.