Chatrier, Philippe

▪ 2001

      French tennis player, sportswriter, and sports administrator (b. Feb. 2, 1928, Créteil, France—d. June 22, 2000, Dinard, France), as head of the French tennis federation (1973–93) and the international tennis federation (1977–91) and a member of the International Olympic Committee (from 1990), was instrumental in the introduction (1968) of the “open” format (in which amateurs and professionals play in the same tournaments), the resurgence of the French Open, and the return of tennis to the Olympic Games in the 1980s. Chatrier was the French junior champion in 1945, a member (1948–50) and later the nonplaying captain (1969–72) of his nation's Davis Cup team, and founding editor of Tennis de France magazine.

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