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Australia's Daria Gavrilova celebrates after winning her third round match against France's Kristina Mladenovic at the Australian Open tennis tournament at Melbourne Park, Australia, January 22, 2016. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu

Russian-born tennis star Daria Gavrilova is set to represent Australia in the Fed Cup after the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Board approved her appeal during a hearing in Moldova on Wednesday.

The ITF had previously ruled that players were eligible to represent their countries upon becoming citizens if they had not in the previous three years, represented another nation.

This ruling changed recently to state that players are required to be citizens for at least two years to represent their countries in the Fed Cup.

Even though Gavrilova has lived in Australia since she was 15, according to The Australian, the 21-year-old was only granted citizenship in 2015.

However, she was able to successfully argue that she had already qualified for Australia before the new rules were implemented last year.

“The Board determined that the applicable version of the ITF Fed Cup Regulations for the appeal at hand were the 2015 version. The Board considered all written and oral submissions made by Tennis Australia, Daria Gavrilova, the Russian Tennis Federation and the original decision maker, the Fed Cup Committee,” the ITF said in a statement.

“Miss Gavrilova is now eligible to represent Australia in the Fed Cup.”

The Moscow-born tennis player, currently ranked 34th in the world, made headlines around Australia after reaching the last sixteen of the 2016 Australian Open. Australians were quick to adopt the Russian star as she progressed through the stages, eventually losing in round four to Spanish number 10 seed Carla Suarez Navarro.

Australia will take on the United States next month in the world group qualifying tie in Brisbane, with the 22-year-old young gun nicknamed ‘Dasha’ now likely to join Sam Stosur as Australia’s singles players for the Fed Cup tie.

Lucky Gavrilova was the only appeal to be successfully overturned, as Aljaz Bedene and Maxim Dubarenco were declared by the ITF as “not eligible” to represent Belarus and Great Britain in the Davis Cup.