Jean-Pierre Courcol (born 18 March 1944) is a French business executive and a former professional

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

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 football, rugby, motorsport, and cycle sport, ...

from 1984 to 1993 and served as managing director of

Air Inter Air Inter (Lignes Aériennes Intérieures) was a semi-public French domestic airline. Before its merger with Air France, the airline was headquartered in Paray-Vieille-Poste, Essonne.''World Airline Directory''. Flight International. 26 March-1 Apr ...

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 (french: Internationaux de France de tennis), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, beginning in late May each year. The tournament and ven ...

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 who won three Grand Slam singles titles. He started to play tennis at six years old. He was the first black player selected to the Un ...

. His son

Daniel Courcol Daniel Courcol (born 26 April 1969) is a former professional tennis player from France. Courcol was a leading collegiate player for Mississippi State during the early 1990s. He is the only man from the university to have reached number one in b ...

also competed on the professional tennis tour.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Courcol, Jean-Pierre 1944 births Living people French male tennis players French business executives French airline chief executives Tennis players from Paris Businesspeople from Paris