Bruno Rebeuh: ‘I should have not become an umpire, I lost my family life’

Former French umpire Bruno Rebeuh had an intriguing interview with L’Equipe, where the Frenchman spoke about his memories when he was a match official.

Asked who was the player, who’d left the strongest memories, he said, “Jimmy Connors because of his personality, game, competitiveness and longevity. He was a semi-finalist at the US Open at the age of 39, and, what’s more, I liked him personally.”  He then continued to say that Connors’ countryman, John McEnroe was the most difficult player, whose matches he’d had to officiate. “McEnroe was complicated.(Yannick) Noah was complicated too when he played in front of his home crowd in Bercy. You can’t really say a player was difficult, it depended on a combination of several things, the place, the context. Umpiring Lendl wasn’t difficult, but Lendl-McEnroe were.” Rebeuh also spoke about Andre Agassi and commented, “He was someone who …

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