Hugo Gaston, hostage of the war of nerves at the head of the Federation

Bernard Giudicelli, Hugo Gaston, and Gilles Moretton, during the Roland-Garros 2020 edition. -

At Roland-Garros,

The Blues have not yet joined Clairefontaine that we have already found a better recuperator than Kanté, a certain Bernard Giudicelli, The president of the French Tennis Federation (FFT) has revived the Amazon fires like a stateless Fazendeiro 'soul with a 100% provocative tweet' that he had to write with a smirk, just to spice up his weekend a little.

A photo montage of Ferro, Gaston, and Burel, the three beautiful tricolor surprises of the fortnight, overhung by a comment: “Génération Cherret”, from the name of the DTN of French tennis, in office for barely two years, which makes short, everyone will agree, for having built the champions of 2020.

Generation Cherret pic.twitter.com/TnrVMShiPP

- Bernard Giudicelli_pr (@bgiudicelli_pr) October 1, 2020

Immediate ragpick battle on social networks, obviously, between the pro and the anti Giudicelli.

It is Arnaud Di Pasquale who leads the sling, attacked in his honor of former DTN.

“All the height of a president in distress who clings to the branches to make anyone believe that these young people are the fruit of his mandate.

Things have to really change ”.

Caught between two fires, poor Cherret tries to calm things down, without convincing many people:

“I don't pull the blanket over me.

Hugo, for example, is a club, a league, parents, and behind all that, the Federation, of course, because we do a lot of things for them.

It didn't work for Hugo at INSEP, he found his trainer in Toulouse, and he's having a blast.

But the reality is that our training system has stopped and is not releasing the players we should have ”.

Factual reminder for Gaston:

2015 - 2016 Center national de Poitiers (Dupuy)

2016 - 2017 Insep

New team in 2017

2017 return to the league (not taken at the cne) with federal coach (Barbier)

Bravo to ALL his coaches since his club debut.

Generation who?

https://t.co/6CSdUT9L45

- Arnaud Di Pasquale - OLY (@ArnaudPasquale) October 2, 2020

"Stop thinking about results at 8-9 years old"

Understand what is going on behind the scenes behind the rants of each other: the fight between Giudicelli and Moretton for the presidency of the FFT.

The boss in office against a challenger with thick leather, former Davis Cup player, known to the Lyonnais for having long presided over the destinies of Asvel in the early 2000s. The two men scramble on just about everything, especially their high level vision.

Giudicelli swears by international confrontations from an early age, and highlights the improvement in performance among juniors (three French semi-finalists at the start of the year at the Australian Open), while Moretton denounces a federal policy “of ultra-selection, with the best young people put in its silos at 8 years old, while the champion of tomorrow is perhaps left out”.

All the young people trained in the federation, yes ALL, have ALWAYS gone to play internationally and this very early.

This tweet sucks (again).

I was (94 -97) European U16 and U18 world champion, it wasn't while playing in France 🤔😂 😂 https://t.co/GaW3KuF5B2

- Arnaud Di Pasquale - OLY (@ArnaudPasquale) October 3, 2020

His best campaign argument?

Arnaud Clément, classified 0 to 18 years old, to end up member of the top 10 ATP.

The "Key" very early declared his support for Moretton, annoyed, among other things, by the policy of the Federation among young people.

“We were taken as an example all over the world and today we are being told that we must imitate the Czech model when we are the Federation with the most resources in France?

That we stop thinking about the results when we are 8 or 9 years old and we find the pleasure of playing tennis, already ”.

So much for the most media disagreement between the two opponents, who do not even seem to appreciate.

Moretton has refused to argue with Giudicelli, to whom he no longer speaks since he sent him to court for defamation.

A Giudicelli-Moretton duel behind the scenes

The president of the Federation had "accused him of being one of those players who, in 2011, fed the network of concierges who bought tickets and resold them ten times the price", just before his election at the head of the Rhône-Alpes Auvergne League (AURA).

Moretton holds a grudge, but that leaves him with a good punchline in store: "I've already beaten him once."

10,000 euros fine for Giudicelli.

65th in the world at the best of his career, Moretton, remained close to Noah whose young years of training in Nice he shared, believes that he was attacked because his rival had smelled the danger:

“When I go to Rhône-Alpes, people come to see me because I tick all the boxes.

The elected officials often consider that we, the former players, we are just good at kicking the ball.

However, I managed to be elected against the course of the game in my League and my mandate is rather satisfactory.

It is the voters who say it, since I widened my base as I went.

Bernard Giudicelli is more circumspect in the Team: “If we want to chair the federation and we haven't managed to federate our entire league, there is a problem.

Our record will be difficult to attack.

At all levels, sporting, educational and developmentally ”.

Moretton is doing it, however.

Since this summer, he artillery at all barzingue and does not let anything pass, like this presumptuous declaration of Giudicelli to

at the beginning of his mandate, where the first elected of the FFT evoked the figure of 1.5 million licensees in 2020. L The interested person put that on the journalist's back, who searched his dictaphone, and Giudicelli did not come out of it growing up.

In short, it does not always fly very high, deplores Pascal Piriou, candidate for the presidency of the League of Brittany and support of the power in place.

“I do not really want a debate where the curve of the redundant becomes a political indicator as was the curve of unemployment under François Hollande.

Everyone loses licensees, We are in the process of pouring into a Parisian clash with ankle tackles on both sides, it's not really my thing.

There is a misunderstanding of what a boss is.

Bernard, it's not the duck dance every day, but he manages a federation with a 325 million budget and it is up to him to decide in the last resort.

Giving your opinion is one thing, but in the end there is only one decision maker ”.

The players wind up against the outgoing president

The sometimes brutal manners of the former right-hand man of Jean Gachassin nevertheless bristled more than one, and without delay.

The famous podium, made up of former renowned players (Noah, Mauresmo, Pioline) supposed to form a council of wise men, took its cliques and its slaps after a month.

His acid criticisms on the lack of combativeness of the French players during the 2017 edition of Roland-Garros, also earned Bernard Giudicelli a time out of the locker room in the Davis Cup.

In her book Without Compromise, Alizé Cornet recounts how she was suddenly blacklisted after her “no show” episode which nearly cost her a long suspension.

"Overnight, not a word, I was even removed from the Fed Cup What's App group without having a say."

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Today, almost all the players who matter or who have counted in French tennis are rolling for Moretton, even if they don't always say so publicly because many have a position (and a nice paycheck) at the FFT.

"From the conversations I have on the circuit on this, nobody wants him to come back," blows a veteran of the circuit, still engaged at Roland Garros this year.

Many are angry with Giudicelli for selling off the Davis Cup, the new version of which brings in more money, but less passion.

Moretton: “On the Davis Cup, every time I go to see a club, I ask the question: You, would you have made this reform?

Not one person says yes.

France must have values, our heritage is the musketeers, it's 1991 in Lyon, it's Melbourne in 2000, that's all that ”.

A reproach that the current president sees as an injustice, since he considers on the contrary to have saved the ordeal by seeing beyond his Franco-French nose.

Our record will be difficult to attack.

At all levels, sports, education and development.

A photograph of the vote at the end of October

So many hitches that punctuate a campaign with elusive rules, even for the most tortured minds.

Half of the votes come from the Grands Félégués, a bit like the American one, and the other half from the Departmental Committees.

In practice, the votes have already started, and we will have a photograph of the result at the end of October, that is to say well before the official date of December 12, unless there are last minute negotiations.

Good luck to whoever can give a reliable trend.

It all starts at 6.30 p.m. in Onet-Le-Château.

Will the GA calendar be disrupted by the pandemic?

To have.

This morning, Gilles Moretton has good reasons to believe in his election to the presidency of the FFT.

Bernard Giudicelli will have to reverse a downward trend.

https://t.co/nTQL51figj

- Yannick Cochennec (@YCochennec) September 30, 2020

Gilles Moretton, who has plowed the ground for months, as an applied challenger, claims that he is "largely" ahead, based in particular on the surprise switch of the Paris committee, which has chosen 82% of the Ensemble list for another Tennis, rather than that of Agir et Gagner led by Bernard Giudicelli.

Some resignations within the team of the outgoing president in the home stretch go in his direction.

"It is not a political posture, we are in front, we have people who rally us permanently, assures Arnaud Clément, who spins the tennis metaphor.

You always have to be wary but I prefer to lead a set and a break than the other way around ”.

"The money has come down like never before"

If one of the great promises of the Moretton camp is to give the clubs a voice by changing the terms of the election to make it democratic, Pascal Piriou invites not to underestimate the work carried out by Bernard Giudicelli at the level of amateur clubs:

“The money came down like it never came down before.

I'm talking about the equipment, the creation of the apprentice training center for teachers, the very effective deconfinement plan to resume practice as soon as possible.

I don't see anything in Gilles Moretton's program that assures me that more will be done for the clubs with a new president.

With the Covid, small clubs are just wondering how they are going to be able to pay their tennis teacher at the end of the month, they do not care who will be the next French winner of Roland Garros ”.

While maybe Hugo Gaston, quite simply.

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