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Yastremska, 20, was suspended in January after
the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) found a banned substance in
an out-of-competition urine sample she submitted.
The ITF had denied Yastremska's earlier application to have the
suspension lifted, prompting the world number 31 to approach the
Court of Arbitration for Sport which dismissed her appeal in
February.
That decision left Yastremska ineligible to play in the
Australian Open, the year's first Grand Slam, after the player
had travelled to the country in the hope that her suspension
would be lifted.
The ITF said in its statement on Tuesday that Yastremska
"remains ineligible to compete" pending the final resolution of
her case.
Yastremska had provided her urine sample in November and a WADA
laboratory in Montreal found the presence of mesterolone
metabolite, an anabolic agent on its Prohibited List.
She has denied using performance-enhancing drugs and said the
positive test was the result of a "contamination event".
(Reporting by Shrivathsa Sridhar in Bengaluru; Editing by
Lincoln Feast.)
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