
Lawyers acting for Jean-Pierre Dartevelle, a former vice-president of the French Tennis Federation, are expected to lodge on appeal on Friday against his 10-year jail sentence for raping an ex-player almost 50 years his junior.
Dartevelle, 74, was found guilty on Thursday at the criminal court in Doubs, eastern France, of the sexual assaults between September 2016 and March 2018 when the victim was aged between 17 and 19.