The five-time major tournament winner Maria Sharapova will not be granted a wild-card entry into the French Open, the president of the French Tennis Federation, Bernard Giudicelli, announced Tuesday.
The federation also declined to offer a wild-card spot in the qualifying tournament to Sharapova, who has won the French Open twice.
Sharapova, 30, returned to the tour last month in Stuttgart, Germany, after a 15-month suspension for a doping violation. Her suspension, initially a two-year ban, was reduced on appeal last year by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which ruled that she had not doped intentionally but was not without fault.