“He’s not an acrobat”: at the head of men’s wheelchair tennis, the 1001st life of Yannick Noah

2024-01-03 13:14:29

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But as is often the case between Noah and tennis, the adventure started again… Once again. “Yannick and tennis, it has always been: I love you, me neither,” confides Bernard Giudicelli, former president of the FFT with whom Noah worked as Davis Cup captain. I bet on him twice in 1995 and 2016 when he had already said goodbye. Each time, he was the only one I saw to save the homeland from nothingness. History will remember that he won each time the following year, even if it didn’t necessarily end well each time… But French tennis is his family, so even if certain family stories go badly, we always come back to it! »