The French Tennis Federation announced Thursday the appointment of the former world issue. She takes the rest of the former player and captain of the France team, whose contract expires at December 31st.
Le Monde
The French Tennis Federation (FFT) announced, Thursday, December 9, the appointment of Amelie Mauresmo at the head of the Roland-Garros tournament. A first for a woman in the history of the Grand Slam Parisien.
“We are very pleased to announce that Amelie Mauresmo will be the new director of Roland-Garros at least for the next three years, until 2024,” announced Gilles Moretton, the President of the FFT, describing A “woman of character who loves Challenger and be challenged (…), embodying renewal and requirement.”.
Retired shorts since 2009, the former world issue one succeeds Guy Forget, who has been leading the Grand Chelem Parisian since 2016 and the Bercy tournament since 2012. “Guy Forget, arriving at the end of the contract at December 31, 2021, Leaves his duties as director of the ROLAND-Garros tournament and Rolex Paris Masters, “said the FFT in a statement on December 7th.
In a given interview at the team the same day, Forget explained not to have desired Renewing its contract, despite the proposal formulated by Gilles Moretton, the President of the FFT elected in February, who redefined “the project and [his] action within the Federation”. “But beyond that, from the beginning of Gilles’ mandate, I felt that the communication did not pass (…). Communication never existed with him. And clearly, I felt he there was no confidence, “he justified.
Twenty-five titles in simple
The name of Guy Forget had been cited in early October in the “Pandora Papers”, an investigation of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, according to which he would have benefited from opaque tax fixtures in the Tax Paradise of the British Virgin Islands. The FFT Ethics Committee had seized this case and had laundered the former player on November 5, “in the absence of tax evasion or other established reprehensible behaviors”.
French only to have held the world’s number one single (2004 and 2006), Mauresmo won twenty-five singles on the WTA circuit, including two in Grand Slam: the Open d’Australia and Wimbledon In 2006.
In 2018, she had already pierced the glass ceiling of hexagonal tennis by being the first woman named captain of a team from France Davis Cup, before renouncing it to train Lucas Poule. She had previously been chosen as coach by the Andy Murray British champion (2014-2016).
Consultant on Amazon Prime, who broadcast the Roland-Garros tournament in the spring, she has already exercised leadership functions as co-organizer of the Coubertin tournament, former Paris tournament of the WTA circuit disappeared in 2015. They will now be two women at the head of Grand Slam tournaments, the Canadian Stacey Allaster since the US Open since June 2020.