Georges Deniau

Georges Deniau

Born	(1932-12-25) 25 December 1932 (age 92) Paris, France
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Plays	Right-handed

Georges Deniau (born 25 December 1932) is a French tennis player turned coach.

Biography

Georges Deniau started playing tennis in Argelès-Gazost ^[1] and began competing in 1945 at the PAC (Rueil). As a player, he reached the 3rd round of the Roland-Garros singles in 1955 and 1956. During the Open Era, he played in the 1st round in 1968 against Ion Țiriac and participated in the doubles tournament annually until 1972.^{[ citation needed ]}

After being ranked in the 1st series for 6 years, he became a coach starting in 1961 ^[2] and won the French professional championship title in 1962.

He ran a tennis school at an altitude of 1600m in Flaine in the Alps. ^[3] He notably worked with the France Davis Cup team in the early 1970s, ^[4] and the Switzerland Davis Cup team in the 1980s, where he later served as national technical director for 5 years, leading the team to the final in the 1992 Davis Cup. ^{[2] [5]} As a player coach, he notably coached Guy Forget and Jakob Hlasek. ^[6]

He also published several technical works, wrote articles, and was responsible for the technical pages of Tennis Magazine from 1976. In 2011, he released From the Musketeers to Federer, a work in which he recounts his encounters with great players in history, from Henri Cochet to Roger Federer.^{[ citation needed ]}

Publications

• Tennis total, La Jeune Parque, 1970
• Tennis – la technique, la tactique, l'entraînement (Tennis – technique, tactics, training), Robert Laffont, 1974 ISBN   2221051556
• How to Win in 15 Tennis Lessons, Mengès, 1982 ISBN   2856201555
• From the Musketeers to Federer, Edilac, 2011 ISBN   2-915351-15-5

Notes and references

1. "Finale de Coupe Davis: un "couteau suisse" bien de chez nous". Ladepeche.fr . 18 November 2014.
2. Frédéric Sugnot (4 April 2003). "In Switzerland, the coach is not neutral!". humanite.fr . Retrieved 17 August 2010.
3. Gérard Albouy (29 June 1981). "Tennis at the top". LeMonde.fr .
4. Julien Reboullet (19 November 2018). "Georges Deniau: "And there, McEnroe transcended Sampras"". L'Équipe .
5. Christian Despont (7 April 2003). "Georges Deniau, the "repentant retiree", has mended the bonds within the Swiss team". Le Temps .
6. Yves Jaton (29 January 2000). "Georges Deniau: "In Hlasek's place, I would have returned the post to Mezzadri"". Le Temps .