The Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company mentioned Thursday that French tennis participant Quentin Folliot has been suspended for 20 years for match-fixing. Folliot should additionally pay a $70,000 superb and return greater than $44,000 in corrupt funds. He might not play in, coach in or attend any tennis occasion approved by ITIA members or any nationwide affiliation through the ban.
An ITIA investigation, which already resulted in self-discipline for 5 different gamers, found that Folliot, 26, dedicated 27 breaches of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program and was a “central determine in a community of gamers working on behalf of a match-fixing syndicate.”
The time served underneath the provisional suspension will depend towards Folliot’s 20-year ban, which can finish in Could 2044. He will probably be 44 on the finish of the suspension.
Folliot denied 30 expenses stemming from 11 matches between 2022-24, together with eight through which he participated. Folliot was charged with contriving the end result of matches, receiving cash to not give greatest efforts for betting functions, providing cash to different gamers to repair matches, provision of inside data, conspiracy to deprave, failure to co-operate with an ITIA investigation and destruction of proof.
Anti-Corruption Listening to Officer Amani Khalifa upheld 27 of the fees in an October listening to and later described Folliot as “a vector for a wider legal syndicate, actively recruiting different gamers and making an attempt to embed corruption extra deeply into the skilled excursions.”
Folliot achieved a career-high world singles rating of No. 488 in August 2022. He has since fallen to No. 1163 amid a provisional suspension which started in Could 2024. Folliot has a 201-156 (.563) singles document for his skilled profession and is 111-113 (.496) in doubles matches.
