{"id":629081,"date":"2025-12-12T22:52:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/629081\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T22:52:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:52:19","slug":"french-tennis-player-quentin-folliot-suspended-for-20-years-over-match-fixing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/629081\/","title":{"rendered":"French tennis player Quentin Folliot suspended for 20 years over match-fixing"},"content":{"rendered":"

French player Quentin Folliot has been suspended for 20 years for committing 27 breaches of tennis’s anti-corruption \u200bprogramme, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Folliot<\/a> was a central \u200cfigure in a network of players \u200coperating on behalf of a match-fixing syndicate, an ITIA investigation found, and is the sixth player to be \u2060sanctioned as a result.<\/p>\n

Folliot’s career-high ranking \u200cwas 488th, according to the ATP, and \u200bhe earned prize money of $60,047 in singles and doubles.<\/p>\n

The Frenchman denied 30 charges relating to 11 matches between 2022 and 2024, eight of \u200cwhich he played in, and an independent Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer, Amani Khalifa, upheld 27 of the charges in \u2060October.<\/b><\/p>\n

Khalifa’s written decision said the 26-year-old Folliot was “a vector for a wider criminal syndicate, actively recruiting other players and attempting to embed corruption more deeply into the professional tours”.<\/p>\n

Folliot, who was provisionally suspended in May 2024, has also been fined $70,000 and ordered to repay \u2060corrupt payments totalling more than $44,000.<\/b><\/p>\n

Time \u200cserved under the provisional suspension was credited against his period of ineligibility meaning Folliot’s ban will end on May 16 2044, subject \u2060to repayment of outstanding \u200bfines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French player Quentin Folliot has been suspended for 20 years for committing 27 breaches of tennis’s anti-corruption \u200bprogramme,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-629081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115709053881501629","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}