By Richard Pagliaro | Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Guy Forget is out the French Open.

The 56-year-old Forget's tenure as tournament director of both Roland Garros and the Rolex Paris Masters has come to an end, the FFT announced today.

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The French Tennis Federation is not renewing Forget's contract, which expires on December 31st. The FFT announced it will name a replacement for former French Davis Cup hero Forget "in the coming days."

"Guy Forget, coming to the end of his contract on 31 December 2021, is stepping down as director of the Roland-Garros tournament and the Rolex Paris Masters," the FFT said in a statement posted on its website. "His succession for the Paris Grand Slam will be announced in the coming days.

"The FFT would like to warmly thank Guy Forget, director of the Roland-Garros tournament since 2016 and the Rolex Paris Masters since 2012, for his investment and his exemplarity, which have contributed to the influence of these two major tournaments on the international scene."

While the FFT's statement says Forget "is stepping down as director", former French Davis Cup captain Yannick Noah, Forget's good friend, suggested the tournament director was pushed out of his post.



"My buddy just got kicked out of the tennis family," Noah captioned a photo of himself with Forget along with the hashtag Roland Garros.

The French Tennis Federation came under fire in mid-March of 2020 when it made the unilateral decision to move Roland Garros from its traditional May spot in the schedule to September without consulting its Grand Slam partners or the pro tours first.

Later, Forget conceded the FFT's unilateral move left "some people upset" but said in restrospect the successful staging of the 2020 Roland Garros in the first eve fall edition of the tournament showed it was ultimately the right decision.

"I know we have been criticized when we moved the dates of Roland Garros. We did it in a very quick way," Forget said. "We got some people upset. Some players were really surprised. We did it on our own.

"The positive thing is now those same people, and especially players, told us that it was the right thing to do. So it worked."