Tennis star Maria Sharapova said she will appeal the two-year suspension by the International Tennis Federation, or ITF. The ITF said Sharapova was responsible for failing a test earlier this year for the banned drug known as meldonium. The usual suspension is four years, but the independent panel reduced it to two. The panel said Sharapova was “the sole author of her own misfortune.” The suspension was reduced because it could not prove Sharapova intended to cheat. Sharapova wrote on Facebook that “I cannot accept an unfairly harsh two-year suspension.” The five-time grand slam winner added that she “did not do anything intentionally wrong.” And she will appeal the ITF’s decision with the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Sharapova failed the drug test in late January while playing in the Australian Open. She was provisionally suspended right away, which means the soonest she will bea llowed to play again is January 2018. Meldonium is a drug made in Eastern Europe and popular with athletes from that part of the world.