French Player Suspended 20 Years for Corruption

By Richard Pagliaro | Thursday, December 11, 2025
Photo credit: Quentin Folliot Instagram

A French player has been banned for two decades for corruption.

French player Quentin Folliot has been suspended from tennis for 20 years, fined $70,000, and ordered to repay corrupt payments totaling more than $44,000 after committing 27 breaches of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program (TACP), the International Tennis Integrity Agency announced today.

The 26-year-old Folliot was found to be a central figure in a match-fixing scheme that featured pro players actively working with a match-fixing syndicate.

Folliot is the sixth player to be sanctioned as a result of the investigation, following the cases of Jaimee Floyd-Angele, Paul Valsecchi, Luc Fomba, Lucas Bouquet and Enzo Rimoli, the ITIA announced.

Folliot, who reached a career-high world singles ranking of No. 488 in August 2022, denied 30 charges relating to 11 tennis matches between 2022 and 2024. Folliot played in eight of those matches. Among the charges Folliot faced: contriving the outcome of matches, receiving money to not give best efforts for betting purposes, offering money to other players to fix matches, provision of inside information, conspiracy to corrupt, failure to co-operate with an ITIA investigation, and destruction of evidence.

Corruption Hearing Officer Amani Khalifa found Folliot guilty on 27 of the 30 charges, relating to 10 of the 11 matches. Three charges (provision of inside information, failure to report a corrupt approach, and contriving the outcome of a match) relating to a doubles match in January 2024 were dismissed.

In the written decision issued on December 1st, Khalifa called Folliot “a vector for a wider criminal syndicate, actively recruiting other players and attempting to embed corruption more deeply into the professional tours.”