Europe 1 with AFP 1:50 p.m., December 7, 2021

The former French n ° 1 Guy Forget resigned on Tuesday from his post of tournament director at Roland Garros and the Masters 1000 in Paris.

We do not know the reasons for this resignation.

The French tennis player was cited in early October in the Pandora papers, before being cleared by the French Tennis Federation.

Guy Forget, at the end of his contract, "is leaving his position as director" of the Roland-Garros and Masters 1000 tournaments in Paris, the French Tennis Federation (FFT) announced on Tuesday.

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

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Reasons for departure not specified

The former French n ° 1, 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.

The reasons for his departure are not specified.

According to the daily

L'Equipe

, Forget presented his resignation this Tuesday morning to the president of the FFT Gilles Moretton. 

Guy Forget's name was cited 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.

Forget cleared by the FFT

The ethics committee of the FFT was seized of this case and had cleared Forget, on November 5, "in the absence of tax evasion or other criminally reprehensible behavior established".

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.