Dec 11 (Reuters) - French player Quentin Folliot has been suspended for 20 years for committing 27 breaches of tennis's anti-corruption programme, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) said on Thursday.
Folliot was a central figure in a network of players operating on behalf of a match-fixing syndicate, an ITIA investigation found, and is the sixth player to be sanctioned as a result.
Folliot's career-high ranking was 488th, according to the ATP, and he earned prize money of $60,047 in singles and doubles.
The Frenchman denied 30 charges relating to 11 matches between 2022 and 2024, eight of which he played in, and an independent Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer, Amani Khalifa, upheld 27 of the charges in October.
Khalifa's written decision said the 26-year-old Folliot was "a vector for a wider criminal syndicate, actively recruiting other players and attempting to embed corruption more deeply into the professional tours".
Folliot, who was provisionally suspended in May 2024, has also been fined $70,000 and ordered to repay corrupt payments totalling more than $44,000.
Time served under the provisional suspension was credited against his period of ineligibility meaning Folliot's ban will end on May 16 2044, subject to repayment of outstanding fines.
(Reporting by Trevor Stynes; editing by Clare Fallon)
