{"id":343413,"date":"2025-12-12T15:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/343413\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T15:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:40:10","slug":"french-tennis-player-folliot-suspended-20-years-for-match-fixing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/343413\/","title":{"rendered":"French Tennis Player Folliot Suspended 20 Years For Match-Fixing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"609\" width=\"1083\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/yellow-tennis-balls-next-to-a-racket-with-hundred-euro-bills.jpg\" alt=\"yellow-tennis-balls-next-to-a-racket-with-hundred-euro-bills\" class=\"wp-image-23889972\"  \/>iStockphoto<\/p>\n<p>The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) has suspended French tennis player Quentin Folliot for 20 years for match-fixing. They also fined him $70,000 and required him to repay \u201ccorrupt payments\u201d totaling more than $44,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c26-year-old Folliot was discovered through an ITIA investigation to be a central figure in a network of players operating on behalf of a match-fixing syndicate,\u201d the International Tennis Integrity Agency wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itia.tennis\/news\/sanctions\/french-tennis-player-quentin-folliot-suspended-for-20-years\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a> announcing the suspension. <\/p>\n<p>The ITIA found Folliot guilty of committing 27 breaches of the <a href=\"https:\/\/brobible.com\/tag\/tennis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tennis<\/a> Anti-Corruption Program (TACP). Charges against him included contriving the outcome of matches and receiving money for betting purposes. He also faced charges for offering money to other players to fix matches, providing inside information, and conspiring to corrupt. In addition, authorities found him guilty of failing to cooperate with the investigation and destroying evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities accuse Quentin Folliot of being part of a \u2018criminal syndicate\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Amani Khalifa, the independent Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itia.tennis\/media\/1r4kcbhc\/20251210-quentin-folliot-decision_marked_redacted-1.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">upheld<\/a> 27 of the 30 charges made against Folliot, called him \u201ca vector for a wider criminal syndicate, actively recruiting other players and attempting to embed corruption more deeply into the professional tours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quentin Folliot, whose career-high world singles ranking is 488th, will be eligible to compete again on May 16, 2044. Until then, the organization prohibits him from playing in, coaching at, or attending any tennis event sanctioned by members of the ITIA. That includes ATP, ITF, WTA, Tennis Australia, F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Fran\u00e7aise de Tennis, Wimbledon, USTA, or any national association.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other players who already received sanctions and suspensions\u00a0related to <a href=\"https:\/\/brobible.com\/tag\/match-fixing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">match-fixing<\/a> include Jaimee Floyd-Angele, Paul Valsecchi, Luc Fomba, Lucas Bouquet, Tom Jomby, Anze Arh, Natthasith Kunsuwan, Christian Lindell, Samuel Bensoussan, and Enzo Rimoli. Their suspensions ranged from six weeks for Bouquet to 12 years for Kunsuwan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"iStockphoto The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) has suspended French tennis player Quentin Folliot for 20 years for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,48,71786,190219,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-343413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-match-fixing","12":"tag-quentin-folliot","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}