NEW HAVEN — A decade ago, Varvara Lepchenko was a teenage tennis player searching for an opportunity. She came to the United States with her father and sister from their home in the Republic of ...

Former top-20 tennis player and U.S. Olympian Varvara Lepchenko’s doping suspension for use of a banned stimulant was reduced from four years to 21 months as part of an agreement with the ...

NEW HAVEN -- The situation in Uzbekistan was quickly becoming intolerable for Varvara Lepchenko. At 15, she was a rising tennis star. Despite her status, however, as a top female player, because of ...

Former top-20 women's tennis player Varvara Lepchenko has been suspended four years for committing an anti-doping rule violation, the International Tennis Federation announced Friday. The ...

NEW YORK — For the first time in more than three years — and for the first time since she served a doping ban — former top-20 tennis player Varvara Lepchenko played in a Grand Slam tournament, making ...

The International Tennis Federation announced today that American Varvara Lepchenko committed an anti-doping rule violation but will receive no sanction. Lepchenko, 30, was provisionally banned on ...

PARIS — American Varvara Lepchenko refused to comment Tuesday on reports that she tested positive for meldonium and served a “silent ban” earlier this year. Asked directly or indirectly about the ...

Varvara Lepchenko’s doping suspension for use of a banned stimulant was reduced from four years to 21 months as part of an agreement with the International Tennis Federation. The agreeement was ...

United States' Varvara Lepchenko makes a backhand return to Japan's Mayo Hibi during a tuneup tournament ahead of the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Monday, Feb. 1, 2021 ...