
Moroccan Tennis Player Banned for Life After Record 135 Match-Fixing Violations
Guilty of a record number of violations, former Moroccan tennis player Younes Rachidi has been banned for life from any tennis-related activity.

Guilty of a record number of violations, former Moroccan tennis player Younes Rachidi has been banned for life from any tennis-related activity.

Moroccan tennis player Elliot Benchetrit won the international tennis tournament in Doha on Saturday, thus winning his first title of the year.

The Moroccan table tennis team will take part in the final stages of the Senior African Nations Cup, scheduled from September 3 to 9 in Algeria.

It was without much difficulty that the Moroccan tennis players overcame their Algerian counterparts in the first day of the Davis Cup Africa Zone III tournament.

Following the draw for the Davis Cup Africa Zone III Group, held in Algiers on Tuesday, August 9, 2022, Morocco will have to face Algeria, the host country of the tournament.

The Algerian table tennis team (men and women) won the gold medal in the team event, beating Morocco (3-0), in Tipasa, Algeria.

The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) has imposed heavy suspension sentences on six Moroccan players, found guilty of match-fixing. They have twenty days to appeal before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

Moroccan tennis would be plagued by corruption and match-fixing. The International Tennis Integrity Agency has provisionally suspended six Moroccan players, to preserve the integrity of tennis and the Royal Moroccan Tennis Federation.

The Franco-Moroccan tennis player, Elliot Benchetrit, who decided at the end of 2020 to represent Morocco during the Olympic Games and the Davis Cup, gave an interview to VH magazine on the reasons that led him to make this decision. During this interview, the player confides that after playing for France, his country of birth, he wanted to honor Morocco, his country of origin.

The 22-year-old French tennis player Elliot Benchetrit has decided to now play for Morocco, the country of his father, in the Davis Cup and the Olympics. A "well-thought-out" choice that he explains.

Good news for Moroccan tennis, which will soon welcome Elliot Benchetrit. The French tennis player has just announced his intention to play for Morocco, "the country of birth of his father".

Morocco will participate in the table tennis world championships in South Korea. The national men’s team has qualified for this competition scheduled from February 25 to March 4, 2021 in the South Korean city of Busan.