Guy Forget

Guy Forget was a French tennis player who played professionally from 1982 to 1997. Forget achieved a career-best doubles ranking of three in the world in August 1986, and a singles ranking of four in the world in March 1991. During his career he won more than $5.6 million in prize money.

Forget was a gifted young tennis player who won the French Open junior title in 1982, turning professional shortly afterwards. His first ATP doubles title came at the Stockholm Open in 1985 when he teamed with Andrés Gómez of Ecuador. Forget won 28 ATP doubles titles in his career with his last one coming at the 1995 Milan Indoor with Boris Becker. Forget and Becker had won two previous ATP doubles events, both at Indian Wells, California. In October 1986 Forget won his first ATP singles title with victory against Sweden’s Jan Gunnarsson in the final of the Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse.

Forget reached the quarter-finals of the singles at the Australian Open twice and at Wimbledon on three occasions. In the doubles he was a two-time finalist at the French Open, first with Yannick Noah in 1987, and again in 1996 with Jakob Hlasek. Forget played on France’s Davis Cup team for 12 years, helping them to win the tournament in 1991 and 1996. After his retirement he also served as the team captain.

Forget competed at three Olympic Games; 1984 Los Angeles, 1988 Seoul, and 1992 Barcelona. In Los Angeles he played in the singles when tennis was a demonstration sport. He lost in the quarter-finals to the tournament’s eventual winner Stefan Edberg. In Seoul he reached the third round in the singles, and the quarter-finals of the doubles where he teamed with Henri Leconte. Forget and Leconte would team up again at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics with the pair reaching the second round. Forget also played in the singles in Barcelona, again reaching the second round. After his retirement the International Tennis Federation awarded Forget with the Philippe Chatrier Award in 2011. Five years later he became the director of the French Open.