The Grand Slam Board has reversed the unprecedented , acknowledging that the Georgian-born American played “professionally from the first to the very last point”, so the total amount of her 46,000 EUR earnings will be returned to her.
A month and a half ago, Maria Sakkari needed just 55 minutes to beat Tatishvili in the first round of Roland Garros and after the match it was decided that Tatisvhili’s performance was not meeting the standards expected of a professional athlete, so she was stripped off of her entire first-round prize money. About a week later, Tatishvili appealed to the Grand Slam Board the sanction imposed on her, which she described as “unfair and discriminatory”, in an attempt to overturn the decision and restore her name.