Guy Forget, at the end of the contract, “Leaves his functions of director” Roland-Garros and Masters 1000 tournaments in Paris, announced Tuesday, December 7, the French Tennis Federation (FFT). “His succession for the Parisian Grand Slam will be announced in the coming days”, declares in a press release the FFT, which takes the opportunity to “Warmly thank” Guy Forget, director of Roland-Garros since 2016 and of the Rolex Paris Masters since 2012, “For its investment and its exemplary nature, which contributed to the influence of these two major tournaments on the international scene”.
The former French number one, now 56 years old, was director of these two major tournaments, among the main ones on the circuit, since 2016 for the Major on clay and since 2012 for the Masters 1,000 indoors. The reasons for his departure are not specified.
Cleared by the ethics committee of the FFT
According to the daily The team, Guy Forget presented Tuesday morning his resignation to the president of the FFT, Gilles Moretton. Guy Forget’s name was mentioned in early October in the “Pandora Papers”, an investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, according to which he would have benefited from opaque tax schemes in the tax haven of the British Virgin Islands. The ethics committee of the FFT took up this case and cleared the former player on November 5, “In the absence of tax evasion or other established criminally reprehensible behavior”.
The ethics committee had, however, asked the director of Roland-Garros to “Make every effort to ensure that the possible damage to its reputation (…) does not reflect on that of the tournaments that he directs or on that of the FFT ” in the event of legal proceedings linked to the revelations of the press. “I am happy to see that the ethics committee made this report”, commented Forget on the sidelines of the Bercy tournament, refusing to say more.