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French tennis player Quentin Folliot has been suspended for 20 years after breaching the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program (TACP) 27 times, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) said Thursday.
Folliot, 26, was described as a “central figure in a network of players operating on behalf of a match-fixing syndicate,” and was fined $70,000 as well as being ordered to repay over $44,000 in payments he received for his actions. He was charged with 30 offenses, all of which he denied, spanning 11 matches between 2022 and 2024.
Folliot, who never played a full ATP Tour and competed on the second and third tiers of the professional tennis circuit, reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 488. Anti-corruption official Amani Khalifa described Folliot in her report as “a vector for a wider criminal syndicate, actively recruiting other players and attempting to embed corruption more deeply into the professional tours.”
Five other players were probed during the investigation into the syndicate. Jaimee Floyd-Angele, Paul Valsecchi, Luc Fomba, Lucas Bouquet and Enzo Rimoli were all sanctioned, but Folliot’s ban, which will run until 2044 including credit for time served under a provisional suspension, is the longest.