France won their ninth Davis Cup on December 2, 2001 in Melbourne. A feat achieved in large part thanks to Nicolas Escudé. The heroes remember.
If the success in Lyon against the United States in 1991 was a divine surprise and a historic coronation for French tennis, the victory in Australia ten years later remains perhaps an even greater achievement. The Blues overthrew the Australian Dream team at home on the grass. Who says better ? That day, Guy Forget became the second Frenchman in history, after René Lacoste, to win the Davis Cup as a player and as a captain. “In 2001 in Melbourne, I believe there was the same osmosis as in 1991 or 1996 (title in Malmö). In 2001, the players gave me incredible emotion with 15,000 Australians who dreamed of winning, wanted to experience what we had experienced in Lyon in 1991. The small band of French people who left at the end of the world prevented them from living that dream. Playing against Rafter and Hewitt was as strong as Sampras-Agassi. It was an extension of 1991 … »
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That year, the French team, made up of Nicolas Escudé, Sébastien Grosjean,
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