Arnaud Clément, vice-president of the French Tennis Federation (FFT) and member of its executive committee, announced on Saturday that he had resigned from his post after an opinion from the FFT's ethics committee, in order to prevent any conflict of interests with his professional activities.
According to the Federation's ethics committee, which published a separate press release on the subject, his activities as a commentator for Amazon and Eurosport, his participation in the Trophée des Légendes at Roland-Garros, his partnership with Lacoste, his role as sports director of the Challenger 125 tournaments in Aix-en-Provence and Challenger 100 in Brest, which receive aid from the FFT, can lead to "situations of interference constituting conflicts of interest".
Activities not compatible with his functions
The ethics committee also recalls that the FFT is partners of the companies to which Arnaud Clément is contractually bound.
"The committee concluded that Mr. Clément was in a situation of conflict of interest in several respects", explains the body, which invited him to give up his professional activities incompatible with his functions within the FFT.
Clément, 43 years old and former captain of the French Davis Cup team until 2015, said in his press release that he himself seized the Federation's ethics committee in mid-May.
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