ITIA v. Yannick Thivant
ITIA v. Yannick Thivant
French player Yannick Thivant, 38, who reached a career-high world singles ranking of 590 in September 2015, admitted to fixing 22 matches between 2017 and 2018, including 16 of his own, as part of a French criminal investigation into the same syndicate. He requested a hearing before independent Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer Professor Richard McLaren rather than accepting an agreed sanction directly.
Given the sheer scale of the admitted fixing — 22 separate matches — McLaren imposed the most severe sanction available: a lifetime ban from all sanctioned tennis activity, alongside a USD 75,000 fine and EUR 37,400 in restitution. McLaren's own reasoning, as reported by the ITIA, held that “the facts in this matter require that the most serious sanctions be imposed.”
One of five related French match-fixing sanctions announced together (see the companion Setodji and Daubias cases in this library), reflecting a coordinated ITIA investigation into a network of fixed matches within French tennis over the same period.
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