Shérazad Reix

Introduction

Shérazad Reix (née Benamar), born 3 April 1989, is a French former tennis player who reached career-high WTA rankings of 204 in singles and 219 in doubles, won seven singles and ten doubles titles on the ITF Circuit, and retired in 2019. She is a canceled figure because of what anti-corruption tribunals concluded after her playing days ended: in January 2023 an independent Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer found her liable for six breaches of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Programme (TACP), sanctioning her with a four-year ban and a $30,000 fine, and in February 2024 the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) partially upheld her appeal, reducing the ban to two years, the fine to $10,000 and the breaches found to three. Both the liability findings and the reduction are adjudicated outcomes. Wikipedia files her biography under the category “Match fixers”.

Background Information

Reix was born in France and is of Algerian descent, and she is married to French player Clément Reix. Her Wikipedia entry describes a left-handed player with a one-handed backhand who won $183,746 in prize money, compiled a 301–225 singles record and a 117–125 doubles record, peaked at No. 204 on 11 July 2016 and No. 219 in doubles on 10 April 2017, and retired in 2019. Her ITF finals ledger lists 20 singles finals — seven titles and 13 runner-up finishes — and 22 doubles finals, going 10–12. In May 2015, she and her women’s doubles partner Clothilde de Bernardi received a wildcard to play in the main draw of the French Open, losing in the first round. It was the record of an ITF Circuit regular with 17 titles — a career already over when tennis’s integrity bodies made her name public in a very different context.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Adjudicated. The findings in this section come from binding rulings — an independent Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer’s decision later revised by the Court of Arbitration for Sport — not from allegations. What the breaches consisted of was never published in the fetched record, and no criminal proceeding appears in the available reporting.

The adjudicated record begins on 31 January 2023, when independent Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer Amani Khalifa issued a decision finding Reix liable for six breaches of the TACP and imposing a four-year period of ineligibility and a $30,000 fine. Wikipedia compresses the outcome into one sentence, writing that in 2023 Reix was banned from professional tennis for four years and fined $30,000 “after being found guilty of six match fixing offences by the International Tennis Integrity Agency.” The ITIA’s announcement of the appeal result states it more precisely: “Reix was found liable for six breaches of the TACP in 2023 by independent Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer Amani Khalifa.”

What the breaches consisted of is not in the fetched record: the ITIA release does not describe the conduct found, the provisions breached, or any matches involved, and nothing here will fill that silence. What CAS decided is precise. Announcing the ruling on 6 February 2024, the ITIA wrote: “The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has partially upheld an appeal from French tennis player Sherazad Reix against a disciplinary sanction imposed on 31 January 2023.” The agency added: “The CAS ruling means that Reix’s period of ineligibility has been reduced from four years to two, and their fine from $30,000 to $10,000, with three breaches of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program (TACP) found.” Three of the six liability findings did not survive appeal; three did.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The sanction carried real teeth for a former player. Per the ITIA, “The player’s period of ineligibility runs from 31 January 2023 and will end on 30 January 2025.” It also stated: “During the period of ineligibility, Reix is prohibited from playing in, coaching at, or attending any tennis event authorised or sanctioned by the members of the ITIA (ATP, ITF, WTA, Tennis Australia, French Tennis Federation, Wimbledon and USTA) or any national association.” That scope reaches far past competition — coaching and even attendance were barred.

The public framing was blunt. Among Wikipedia’s references, Le Parisien’s February 2023 article is titled “La joueuse de tennis française Sherazad Reix bannie quatre ans pour avoir truqué six matchs” — which translates as the French tennis player banned four years for having “truqué six matchs”, or fixed six matches — and Orange Sports ran “WTA: French woman suspended 4 years for match-fixing”. Wikipedia itself sorts her biography into the categories “Match fixers” and “Match fixing in tennis”. The fetched record contains no public statement from Reix or anyone representing her and no quoted reaction from tennis officials; the ITIA release closes only with the agency’s standing description of itself as “an independent body established by its tennis members to promote, encourage, enhance, and safeguard the integrity of professional tennis worldwide.”

Current Status

Reix’s two-year ineligibility ran from 31 January 2023 to 30 January 2025 and has expired, per the ITIA’s announcement of the CAS ruling. The operative outcome is the appeal award: three TACP breaches found, two years of ineligibility, and a $10,000 fine. The ITIA release discloses no further appeal, and nothing in the fetched records shows a reinstatement announcement, a statement from her, or a return to competition or coaching. Wikipedia’s career section, as fetched, still describes only the January 2023 sanction — the four-year ban and $30,000 fine for six match-fixing offences — and does not mention the 2024 CAS reduction. Her public record, as captured here, ends with the arbitral decision and the categories attached to her name.

Impact on Their Career/Life

Because Reix had retired in 2019, the case did not strip ranking points or entries from an active player; instead it attached a corruption finding, later reduced on appeal, to a former player’s name. The playing record — seven ITF singles titles, ten in doubles, a No. 204 career high, $183,746 earned, one French Open main-draw wildcard alongside Clothilde de Bernardi — now sits on a Wikipedia page sorted into the category “Match fixers”, with the integrity case as its second paragraph. The fine, cut from $30,000 to $10,000, stands as part of the CAS award. Nothing in the fetched records shows her returning to tennis in any capacity; the last documented word is the award itself — three breaches found, two years served — and, in the encyclopedia’s own categories and the French press headlines, a public identity as a match fixer.