Tara Moore

Tara Shanice Moore (born 6 August 1992) is an inactive Hong Kong-born British tennis player. She achieved career-high rankings by the WTA of 145 in singles and No. 77 in doubles. In her career, she won nine singles titles and 18 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

As a junior, she was coached by the American tennis coach, Nick Bollettieri. In September 2006, he referred to Moore as one of the best young players in his school, the Bollettieri Tennis Academy, along with Michelle Larcher de Brito. Her coach was Charles Homewood. Her favourite surface is stated as being grass although most of her titles to date have come on hardcourt.

Moore is currently serving a four-year competition ban set to end in December 2027 for an anti-doping rule violation relating to a failed test in 2022.

In 2007, Moore reached the quarterfinals of another $10k event in Irapuato before losing to Ana Clara Duarte of Brazil, in straight sets. In July, she entered her first $25k tournament in Felixstowe, England, where she lost in the qualifying stages. Her next two tournaments were both $10k events in England (Ilkley and Wrexham) and she managed to reach the quarterfinal stages of both of these. She ended the year with three consecutive first-round losses at $25k events. Her year-end ranking for 2007 was world No. 823.

Back on the ITF Circuit, Moore reached the finals of both the singles and the doubles tournament of the $25k Woking event on outdoor hardcourt. She lost the singles final to Pemra Özgen in three sets, having held matchpoints. However, she and her Russian partner, Marta Sirotkina, won the doubles, beating Mari Tanaka and Kanae Hisami in the final.

However, in December the LTA cut her funding, citing a lack of results.

2014–2015 In 2014, Moore made her debut for the British Fed Cup team in the ninth/tenth placed playoff against Austria, and won her first singles rubber.

She impressively saw off Tamira Paszek, a former top-30 player. She also played in Wimbledon as a wildcard but lost in the first round to former Wimbledon finalist Vera Zvonareva in a match that spanned two days. Moore failed to build on her Wimbledon performance on her return to ITF Circuit play, as she won just three singles matches in the rest of the year. She saw her ranking slip outside the top 250 in the world as a consequence.

Her poor form continued in 2015. Playing solely at ITF level, Moore's best result was reaching the semifinals of a $10k tournament in Antalya and a $15k event in Loughborough. This was the first year since 2009 that she had failed to make a singles tournament final. She had more success in doubles, reaching three finals and winning the event Antalya in partnership with Cornelia Lister.

2016–2019: First WTA Tour doubles final Moore's 2016 campaign got off to a bright start, as she won her first tournament of the year, a $10k event in Antalya, beating Anne Schaefer in the final. Following this, Moore and semi-regular doubles partner Conny Perrin played the WTA Tour event in Rio de Janeiro. This was her first WTA event in over two years. Entering would prove a wise choice as Moore and Perrin reached their first ever WTA Tour final, after a run that included a quarterfinal victory over second seeds Marina Erakovic and Sílvia Soler Espinosa. They were beaten by fourth seeds, Verónica Cepede Royg and María Irigoyen, in the title match.

In April 2019, at a ITF World Tour event in Sunderland against Jessika Ponchet, Moore was trailing 0–6, 0–5 and facing match point, but made a comeback to win 0–6, 7–6, 6–3.

2024–2025: Return to tennis, doping ban Moore returned to competitive tennis for the first time after her suspension was lifted when she teamed up with Annali Olivelle to win an ITF World Tour first-round match against Melania Delai and Francesca Pace in Sardinia on 30 April 2024.

Partnering with Sarah Beth Grey, she reached her first final since her comeback at the grass-court Surbiton Trophy on 7 June but lost out 6–1, 6–1 to Emina Bektas and Aleksandra Krunic.

On 15 July 2025, Moore was suspended until December 2027 for an anti-doping rule violation from 2022, despite being cleared by an independent tribunal 18 months before. Bárbara Gatica also tested positive for the same substances at the same event and their cases were jointly assessed by an independent tribunal panel. In December 2023 the panel ruled that neither player bore any fault nor demonstrated any negligence after concluding that the source of the substances was contaminated meat eaten at the event. In January 2024, the BBC reported that the ITIA is appealing against the tribunal's decision, with that appeal to take place at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) at a future date.

Moore's case was cited as one of the reasons why the Professional Tennis Players Association in 2025 established their Athlete Counsel & Equity (ACE) Program to provide pro-bono legal support to members in anti-doping and anti-corruption cases.

On 15 July 2025 CAS upheld the ITIA appeal, set aside the tribunal decision and issued Moore with a four-year ban with 19 months credit from the earlier suspension. CAS explained that Moore "did not succeed in proving that the concentration of nandrolone in her sample was consistent with the ingestion of contaminated meat" and that she had "failed to establish that [it] was not intentional".

Personal life Tara was previously married to fellow professional tennis player Emina Bektas. She was previously in a long-term relationship with her former doubles partner, Conny Perrin.

WTA Tour finals Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups) LegendWTA 500International / WTA 250 (0–2)Finals by surfaceClay (0–2)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 0–1 Feb 2016 Rio Open, Brazil International Clay Conny Perrin Verónica Cepede Royg María Irigoyen 1–6, 6–7(1–7)Loss 0–2 Apr 2022 Copa Colsanitas, Colombia WTA 250 Clay Emina Bektas Astra Sharma Aldila Sutjiadi 6–4, 4–6, [9–11]

ITF Circuit finals Singles: 17 (9 titles, 8 runner-ups) Legend$50,000 tournaments$25,000 tournaments$10/15,000 tournaments Finals by surface Hard (7–6) Clay (1–1) Grass (1–1)

Doubles: 45 (18 titles, 27 runner-ups) LegendW100 tournaments$80,000 tournamentsW60/75 tournamentsW50 tournaments W25 tournaments$10/15,000 tournamentsFinals by surfaceHard (16–18)Clay (2–5)Grass (0–3)Carpet (0–1)