The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has increased to three years the tennis ban imposed on France's Samuel Bensoussan for match-fixing, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) said on Wednesday, July 15, 2026.
Bensoussan, 34, had originally been banned for one year and 11 months for fixing singles and doubles matches in lower-tier events on behalf of an organised crime syndicate based in Belgium. His career-high ATP singles ranking was No. 405, reached in June 2018.
The player had appealed to CAS to overturn his initial ban, while the ITIA asked the sports court to extend it to six and a half years. The three CAS judges instead set the penalty at three years, declining the prosecution's request to order Bensoussan to repay the 1,000 euros investigators said he received for fixing one of the matches in 2018.
