Chinese tennis player Pang Renlong has been barred from tennis for 12 years after fixing or attempting to fix 22 matches in five months, the sport’s integrity agency said Friday.
The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) said that Pang, a 25-year-old on the World Tennis Tour, which is the third professional rung of the sport, fixed five of his own matches and attempted to fix 17 more, six of which were successfully fixed, between May and September 2024. He admitted the offenses, waiving his right to a hearing, meaning that no full decision into his case has been published.
Pang has also been fined $110,000, of which $70,000 is suspended.
Pang played 26 World Tennis matches and one at ATP Challenger Tour level in that period, winning 13 and losing 14. His highest world ranking is world No. 1,316, achieved in November 2024. He had been provisionally suspended since that month.
Pang’s case was linked to those of Li Wenfu and Zhang Jin, a source briefed on the cases said who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly said. Li was suspended for two years and three months and Zhang for two years respectively, both in November 2025, for fixing matches in exchange for payment.
Pang’s provisional suspension was announced alongside those of two other players, Jaimée Floyd-Angéle of France and Anapat Timangkul of Thailand, were also suspended on suspicion of anti-corruption breaches.
Floyd-Angèle, 25, was probed during the investigation of Quentin Folliot, a French player who was suspended for 20 years earlier this month over 27 anti-corruption offenses
The 26-year-old Folliot, who was charged with 30 breaches and denied all of them, was described as a “central figure in a network of players operating on behalf of a match-fixing syndicate” in the conclusions of anti-corruption official Amani Khalifa. The full decision in Folliot’s case described evidence of conversations between Folliot and other players in which the Frenchman persuaded or asked peers to influence the results of matches, as well as receipts for payments associated with match-fixing.
Floyd-Angèle was ultimately suspended for five years and three months.
