Yannick Noah
Yannick Noah
Yannick Noahis a former professional tennis player from France. He is best remembered for winning the French Open in 1983 and as a highly successful captain of France's Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams. During his career, which spanned almost two decades, Noah captured a total of 23 singles titles and 16 doubles titles, reaching a career-high singles ranking of World No. 3and attaining the World No. 1 doubles ranking the following month. Since his retirement from the game, Noah...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth12 May 1960
CitySedan, France
CountryFrance
He has just lived through the most intense moments of his life. He is still away in his cosmos.
He wasn't very good; he was too big.
I know he's been working really hard. I talk to him all the time, and I feel like he's trying as hard as he can. And he's happy here. I'm happy that he's happy.
I'm really surprised by the way he's playing, especially the last few weeks. He's working hard, and most of all, he's on a good team. The way they play allows him to play his own style.
I never thought I would feel such emotions. I'm really thankful to be a part of this. It is very special.
You work so hard for these moments, and they're so worth it. So many sacrifices. It's like (being) in a cloud.
In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.
It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends.
When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.
I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.
I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.
People judged my work without to have listened to it.
Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.