{"id":440615,"date":"2025-12-11T17:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T17:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/440615\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T17:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T17:59:15","slug":"french-tennis-player-suspended-for-20-years-over-anti-corruption-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/440615\/","title":{"rendered":"French tennis player suspended for 20 years over anti-corruption breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"A collection of used tennis balls with the ATP Tour logo on them.\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Quentin-Folliot-Tennis-Anti-Corruption-1024x683.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"responsive\" class=\"image-next-root\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-fit:cover\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Article_ImageCaptionCredit__mkXi_ article-image-caption-credit Typography_body1__xfKuc inherit Typography_base__jzSqr\"> Aaron M. Sprecher \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Folliot, 26, was described as a \u201ccentral figure in a network of players operating on behalf of a match-fixing syndicate,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 \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>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\u2019s ban, which will run until 2044 including credit for time served under a provisional suspension, is the longest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron M. Sprecher \/ Getty Images French tennis player Quentin Folliot has been suspended for 20 years after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":440616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[62,222,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-440615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-sports-business","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}