Guy Forget has tendered his resignation. At the end of the contract, the former player “leaves his duties as director” of the Roland-Garros and Masters 1000 tournaments in Paris, as the French Tennis Federation (FFT) revealed on Tuesday, December 7. In a press release, the FFT clarified: “Guy Forget, arriving at the end of his contract on December 31, 2021, is leaving his post as director of the Roland-Garros tournament and the Rolex Paris Masters. His succession for the Parisian grand slam will be announced in the coming days. “
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The reasons for his departure are not specified
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 1000 indoors. According to the daily The team, Forget presented his resignation to the president of the FFT, Gilles Moretton on Tuesday morning.
Guy Forget’s name was mentioned in early October in the Pandora Papers, an investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), according to which he had benefited from opaque tax packages in the tax haven of the British Virgin Islands. The ethics committee of the FFT had self-seized of this affair and had cleared Forget, on November 5, “in the absence of tax evasion or other established criminally reprehensible behavior”.
The ethics committee had, however, asked Forget to “do everything possible so that the possible damage to his reputation (…) does not affect that of the tournaments he directs or that of the FFT” in the event of legal follow-up 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.
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