ITIA v. Thomas Setodji

Thomas Setodji, 29, who reached a career-high world singles ranking of 794 in July 2024, was one of five French players sanctioned by the ITIA on 4 April 2025 over conduct connected to the Grigor Sargsyan match-fixing syndicate. Setodji was found liable for two distinct categories of offence: fixing three matches in 2017, and, separately, failing to report a corrupt approach he received in 2018 — a failure the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program treats as its own offence, independent of whatever fixing the approach itself may have related to.

The ITIA imposed a 10-year period of ineligibility, a $20,000 fine, and €5,500 in restitution. The sanction took effect on 1 April 2025, the date of the written decision, and runs until 31 March 2035.

Setodji subsequently took his case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, registered there as CAS 2025/A/11073 Thomas Setodji v. ITIA, with the ITIA separately filing CAS 2025/A/11400 ITIA v. Thomas Setodji — confirmed by CAS's own public case index. That index does not disclose the outcome, and CAS restricts reproduction of its award text without the parties' agreement, so this case should be read as the ITIA's original sanction being taken on to appeal, not necessarily as the final word on Setodji's ban.