LONDON, Dec 11: The International Tennis Integrity Agency said Thursday French tennis player Quentin Folliot has been suspended for 20 years and fined $70,000 for match-fixing.
The ITIA said Folliot has also been ordered to repay “corrupt payments” totalling more than $44,000 for “committing 27 breaches of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program (TACP).”
Folliot’s suspension will end in May 2044, “subject to repayment of outstanding fines.”
During the period of ineligibility, the ITIA said Folliot is prohibited from “playing in, coaching at, or attending any tennis event authorized or sanctioned by the members of the ITIA … or any national association.”
The ITIA said its investigation found that the 26-year-old Folliot was “a central figure in a network of players operating on behalf of a match-fixing syndicate.”
It said Folliot is the sixth player to be sanctioned as a result of the investigation, following the cases of Jaimee Floyd-Angele, Paul Valsecchi, Luc Fomba, Lucas Bouquet and Enzo Rimoli.
The ITIA said that Folliot, the world’s No. 488 player in 2022, denied 30 charges relating to 11 tennis matches between 2022 and 2024, eight of which Folliot played in. (AP)
