The International Tennis Integrity Agency has announced that French tennis player Quentin Folliot has been handed a 20-year suspension from professional tennis following his involvement in a widespread match-fixing network. The 26-year-old was found guilty of multiple breaches under the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program and will face significant financial penalties alongside the lengthy ban from the sport.
Why Was Quentin Folliot Suspended from Professional Tennis?
The ITIA confirmed that Folliot has been suspended for 20 years, fined $70,000, and ordered to repay corrupt payments exceeding $44,000 after committing 27 breaches of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program.
Folliot operated as a central figure within a network of players working on behalf of a match-fixing syndicate, making him the sixth player to face sanctions from this particular investigation, following Jaimee Floyd-Angele, Paul Valsecchi, Luc Fomba, Lucas Bouquet, and Enzo Rimoli.
Folliot initially denied 30 charges relating to 11 tennis matches between 2022 and 2024, eight of which he directly participated in as a player.
The comprehensive list of charges included contriving the outcome of matches, receiving money to deliberately not give best efforts for betting purposes, offering money to other players to fix matches, provision of inside information to betting syndicates, conspiracy to corrupt the sport, failure to co-operate with an ITIA investigation, and destruction of evidence.
A remote hearing took place on October 20 and 21, 2025, before independent Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer Amani Khalifa, who ultimately upheld 27 of the 30 charges relating to 10 of the 11 matches under investigation.
Three charges relating to a doubles match in January 2024, which included the provision of inside information, failure to report a corrupt approach, and contriving the outcome of a match, were dismissed by the hearing officer.
In the written decision dated December 1, 2025, AHO Khalifa characterised Folliot as “a vector for a wider criminal syndicate, actively recruiting other players and attempting to embed corruption more deeply into the professional tours”.
He also accounted for several aggravating factors when determining the appropriate sanction, most notably Folliot’s wilful obstruction of an ITIA investigation through the destruction of evidence and failure to cooperate with integrity officials.
French tennis player Quentin Folliot has been suspended for 20 years following 27 breaches of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program.https://t.co/MqgnJkzYzE pic.twitter.com/gcnePIV3I9
— International Tennis Integrity Agency (@itia_tennis) December 11, 2025
Folliot was placed under provisional suspension on May 17, 2024, and his full 20-year suspension will conclude on May 16, 2044, subject to the repayment of all the fines.
During his entire period of ineligibility, Folliot is prohibited from playing in, coaching at, or attending any tennis event authorised or sanctioned by ITIA members, which include the ATP, ITF, WTA, Tennis Australia, Fédération Française de Tennis, Wimbledon, and USTA, or any national tennis association worldwide.
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Folliot’s Tennis Career and Recent Suspensions in the Tennis World
Folliot reached a career-high world singles ranking of 488 on August 1, 2022, which placed him on the lower tiers of professional tennis, where he competed primarily in lower-level ITF tournaments. His relatively modest ranking and earnings made him vulnerable to approaches from betting syndicates seeking to corrupt matches at the lower levels of the professional game.
The tennis world has faced several integrity challenges in recent months, with World No. 2 Iga Świątek receiving a one-month suspension after testing positive for the prohibited substance trimetazidine (TMZ) in August 2024. She was suspended in November 2024 and returned to tennis courts on December 4, 2024.
Similarly, World No. 1 Jannik Sinner accepted a three-month suspension from World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) over two positive doping tests for clostebol, an anabolic steroid, in March 2024. He served his ban from February 9 to May 4 this year, missing the Indian Wells and Miami Open Masters 1000 tournaments.
While both Świątek and Sinner faced doping-related suspensions, Folliot’s case represents a fundamentally different threat to tennis integrity involving deliberate match-fixing activities.
