Pierre Gillou
Full name: Pierre Emile Gillou
Alias: Pierre Emile Gilou
Alias: Pierre Emile Gilou
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| Bio | He was a French tennis player, captain and administrator. In his youth, he played tennis, rugby and athletics. He served as a referee at the Paris Tennis Club and participated in certain tournaments, notably being a semi-finalist in the French championship in 1901. Then dismissed from Racing, he was elected secretary of the lawn tennis commission in 1907. ' Union of French athletic sports societies. An industrialist by profession, Pierre Gillou became president of the Racing Club de France before the war, a position he held for around forty years. It was for this reason that in 1924 he proposed to Pierre de Coubertin the expansion of the Stade de Colombes for the organization of the Olympic Games . The club being the owner of the premises, in return it receives 50% of the revenue from the Games. In 1927, he was at the origin, with Émile Lesieur, of the creation of the new court which hosted the Davis Cup in 1928 and would later become the Philippe-Chatrier court. Except for the 1930 edition, Gillou was the manager and non-playing captain of the French Davis Cup team, consisting of Jean Borotra, Jacques Brugnon, Henri Cochet and René Lacoste, collectively known as the Four Musketeers. Secretary general of the French Lawn Tennis Federation (FFLT), then vice-president, he was elected president in 1930 after the death of Albert Canet, a position he abandoned ten years later to join Jean Borotra at the General Commission for Physical Education and Sports. He was named honorary president in 1942 then became president again from 1944 until his death in 1953. He was President of the International Federation in 1938 and 1947. As a promotor and investor Gillou played an important role in the creation of the Stade Roland Garros which opened in 1928. At the time of his death in 1953 he was the vice-president of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). From 1953 until 1978 the trophy awarded to the winner of the men's singles at the French Open was called the "coupe Pierre-Gillou" in his honour. His annual ranking of the world best tennis players, issued from the early 1930s until his death, was regarded as authoritative. |
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