Due to the coronavirus pandemic, no tennis on the ATP, WTA or ITF tours has been played since March and the enforced break is currently set to end at the end of July.
A decision is expected soon over whether the August tournaments will go ahead but any resolution will almost certainly mean tennis is played behind closed doors.
Before the break, Djokovic, Nadal and Federer held three of the top four positions in the world rankings but the chasing pack of Dominic Thiem, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Alexander Zverev and Daniil Medvedev were on their coattails.
However, speaking in an interview with Eurosport, Forget explained why he thought the experienced players will still dominate when the season resume.
“I’m pretty confident some tournaments will happen before Roland-Garros and I think that’s for the good of the game and the good of the players,” Forget said.
“When the Tour starts again, I think the players with more experience will still be on top. When you’re a younger player, you need to put those four, five hours a day and to get some of the rhythm matches.
“I think that Roger Federer, Nadal or Djokovic with little less practice, they can rely on their experience and they can still be there on the big moments.
“I think they’ve been so good last year and the first part of the season. Novak has been unbelievable.
“Roger is just playing – when he’s fit – I mean, his best tennis and Rafa, he seems like he’s a junior walking out on every court anywhere in the world like, you know, he’s so happy to be here.”
Forget also opened up on the controversial decision by the French Tennis Federation to move Roland Garros from its usual May date to September when they feared the tournament would be cancelled due to coronavirus.
Players and officials were unhappy with the FFT’s abrupt move but Forget feels it had to be done.
“I think looking back, it was a very courageous move,” Forget explained.
“Because as I told our president at that time, I said, ‘Bernard (Giudicelli) if we do that way, of course, we’re going to get criticised because we don’t know what’s going to happen.
“They’re going to think it’s a very selfish move. Maybe we can talk to them about it’.
“But at the time, our president, his responsibility is to save Roland-Garros, to save the tournament at any cost at all. So our goal was to say, ‘OK, we have to save Roland-Garros because otherwise our federation is struggling, otherwise amateur tennis is going to suffer big time.
“So where could we possibly have Roland-Garros without hurting any Grand Slam, without hurting the Davis Cup, without hurting any Masters 1000? Where could we possibly place Roland-Garros?’
“And that time in autumn, as late as possible, was the time we thought that was going to be the less hurtful for everyone. But when you are running a Grand Slam event, I mean, there are the pillars of the game.
“You know, Wimbledon, Roland-Garros, the US Open and the Australian Open, are what people follow no matter what.”
