Jean-Pierre Courcol (born 18 March 1944) is a French business executive and a former professional
tennis
Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...
player.
Courcol was the director of
L'Équipe
''L'Équipe'' (, French for "the team") is a French nationwide daily newspaper devoted to sport, owned by Éditions Philippe Amaury. The paper is noted for coverage of association football, rugby, motorsport, and cycling. Its predecessor, '' ...
from 1984 to 1993 and served as managing director of
Air Inter
Air Inter () (legally ''Lignes Aériennes Intérieures'') was a semi-public French domestic airline in France that operated from 1954 until it merged with Air France in 1997. It was last headquartered in Paray-Vieille-Poste, Essonne.''World Ai ...
in the late 1990s.
As a tennis player, Courcol won the
South of France Championships in Nice in 1967 and was the last men's champion of the
French Covered Court Championships in 1969. He reached the second round of the
French Open
The French Open (), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a tennis tournament organized by the French Tennis Federation annually at Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. It is chronologically the second of the four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam ...
on three occasions, which includes the
1969 tournament when he lost a five set match to
Arthur Ashe
Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. (July 10, 1943 – February 6, 1993) was an American professional tennis player. He won three Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, Grand Slam titles in singles and two in doubles. Ashe was the first Black player selected ...
.
His son
Daniel Courcol also competed on the professional tennis tour.
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1944 births
Living people
French male tennis players
French business executives
French airline chief executives
Tennis players from Paris
Businesspeople from Paris
20th-century French sportsmen