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
It's definitely a different situation when you have a father who's been in sports. In some ways, it's an extra pressure, but the other side, you know the experience that your father had. I think it helps with the maturity from what I've seen.
It's just sheer love and just the people -- when you win, you want to see the people that you love. That's where they were. So whatever it takes to see the people that you love.
New York is the city which I liked. One could go to the mass Sunday to listen to gospel, to have all the exposures, and to listen to all the music.
You work so hard for these moments, and they're so worth it. So many sacrifices. It's like (being) in a cloud.
It's beautiful, it's been a long trip to come over here but I think it's worth it. I think it's beautiful, and I'm glad my son's a part of it.
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.
Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.