Former tennis prodigy handed 20-year ban and ordered to pay $114k over match fixing scandal

Dec 11, 2025 - 21:15

Quentin Folliot has been banned from tennis for 20 years following multiple breaches of anti-corruption rules.

The Frenchman was at the heart of an International Tennis Integrity Association [ITIA] investigation into match fixing.

Folliot was central to a network of players who operated on behalf of a match fixing syndicate.

He has followed Jaimee Floyd-Angele, Paul Valsecchi, Luc Fomba, Lucas Bouquet and Enzo Rimoli as one of six players to be sanctioned.

Folliot denied 30 charges related to 11 matches played between 2022 and 2024, eight of which he competed in.

These included contriving the outcome of matches, receiving money to not give best efforts for betting purposes, and 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 were other charges.

Amani Khalifa, an independent Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer [AHO] upheld 27 of the charges in relation to ten of the 11 matches.

The other three charges, which related to a doubles match played in January 2024, were dismissed.

Alongside his lengthy tennis ban, the ITIA say Folliot has been fined $70,000 [£52,217] for his breaches.

The 26-year-old must also repay corrupt payments that are in excess of $44,000 [£32,822].

Khalifa said he was ‘a vector for a wider criminal syndicate, actively recruiting other players and attempting to embed corruption more deeply into the professional tours’.