Guy Forget
Guy Forget
Guy Forgetis a French former professional tennis player. During his career, he helped France win the Davis Cup in both 1991 and 1996. Since retiring as a player, he has served as France's Davis Cup team captain...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth4 January 1965
CountryFrance
fighting guy competition
It's a tough world out there and all the guys are fighting hard and the competition is really tough.
american-musician bet heard plays stunning
Well, Darrell is a stunning musician. I mean, he plays anything. The only thing I've never heard him play is a fiddle, and I bet he could.
winning years trying
If you win, fine, if you don't, you try again next year.
player tennis needs
To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.
practice each-day four
I retired because I had a knee injury, my cartilage was wearing out, it was painful and I couldn't put in the four hours of practice each day that I needed to.
hands sitting able
If you lived the doubles, as I did, which was very stressful, you are sitting down in a chair experiencing a match without being able to hold a racquet in your hands.
kids player juniors
I had a coach that was not a great player, but he taught with kids and juniors so that by the time he was 50 he was great. He helped me make the top 5 in the world and yet he wasn't a great player himself.
memories achievement feelings
More than specific memories of achievements, for me I remember the feeling you get when you were just at your very best - when you felt like you were floating across the court and could put the ball wherever you wanted.
thinking player effort
I think each player and myself live things differently because I have no physical effort to make.
sports lonely littles
You can be a little lonely because it's an individual sport.
fun games tennis
When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game.
careers doctors want
You should just enjoy it, but as soon as you decide that it is going to be your career, no matter whether you want to be a doctor or an architect or anything else, you need to work 5 hours a day.
guy style return
There are some guys you have problems beating because of their style - I always had difficulties with guys like Michael Chang and Andre Agassi because their returns were so good and they played so well in defence.
winning guy weapons
But I still serve pretty big and that's one of my biggest weapons, so if my shoulder holds up and I can count on it, I can win a few matches and then you never know how the other guys are going to react to the fatigue and the length of the matches.