Georges Deniau
French tennis player turned coach (born 1932)
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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