{"id":50193,"date":"2026-07-15T12:37:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/french-tennis-players-match-fixing-ban-extended-to-five-years\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T12:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:37:26","slug":"french-tennis-players-match-fixing-ban-extended-to-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/french-tennis-players-match-fixing-ban-extended-to-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"French tennis player&#8217;s match-fixing ban extended to five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>LONDON &#8212; The International Tennis Fairness Body announced Wednesday that French tennis player Samuel Bensussan&#8217;s ban from competition for match-fixing has been extended to three years on appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Bensussan was originally suspended for 1 year and 11 months for fixing singles and doubles matches in a sub-competition for a Belgium-based organized crime syndicate.<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Arbitration for Sport extended the suspension of 34-year-old Bensoussan, whose ATP singles ranking peaked at No. 405 in June 2018, to three years.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the CAS ruling, ITIA said: &#8220;The investigation uncovered a criminal organization that corrupted at least 181 players and manipulated at least 375 tennis matches around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a Belgian criminal case, the syndicate leader was sentenced to five years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Bensussan appealed to CAS to have his original suspension revoked, and ITIA asked the Sports Court to extend the ban to six-and-a-half years.<\/p>\n<p>Three CAS judges refused to order Mr. Bensussan to repay 1,000 euros (about $1,150) that tennis investigators said he received as match-fixing for one of his matches in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8212; The International Tennis Fairness Body announced Wednesday that French tennis player Samuel Bensussan&#8217;s ban from competition for match-fixing has been extended to three years on appeal. Bensussan was originally suspended for 1 year and 11 months for fixing singles and doubles matches in a sub-competition for a Belgium-based organized crime syndicate. The Court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2013,4005,151,7713,881,24,316],"class_list":["post-50193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ban","tag-extended","tag-french","tag-matchfixing","tag-players","tag-tennis","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}