Yannick Noah
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Yannick Noah (1979 Davis Cup)
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| Country (sports) |
 France
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| Born |
18 May 1960 Sedan, France |
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) |
| Turned pro | 1977 |
| Retired | 1996 |
| Plays | Right-handed (1-handed backhand) |
| Prize money | $3,440,660 |
| Int. Tennis HoF | 2005 (member page) |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 476–210 (ATP, Grand Prix, WCT and Grand Slam level, and Davis Cup) |
| Career titles | 23 |
| Highest ranking | No. 3 (7 July 1986) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Australian Open | SF (1990) |
| French Open | W (1983) |
| Wimbledon | 3R (1979, 1985) |
| US Open | QF (1983, 1985, 1989) |
| Other tournaments | |
| Tour Finals | QF (1982) |
| WCT Finals | SF (1988) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 213–109 (ATP, Grand Prix, WCT and Grand Slam level, and Davis Cup) |
| Career titles | 16 |
| Highest ranking | No. 1 (25 August 1986) |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| French Open | W (1984) |
| US Open | F (1985) |
| Team competitions | |
| Davis Cup | F (1982) |
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Noah performing at a concert in 2011
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| Background information | |
| Genres | Pop |
| Occupation(s) | Singer |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 1991 – present |
| Website | www |
Yannick Noah (born 18 May 1960) is 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. 3 (in July 1986) and attaining the World No. 1 doubles ranking the following month. Since his retirement from the game, Noah has remained in the public eye as a popular music performer and as the co-founder, with his mother, of a charity organization for underprivileged children. Noah is also the father of Joakim Noah of the NBA New York Knicks.
Born in the north of France in 1960, Yannick Noah is the son of a Cameroonian footballer, Zacharie Noah, and his French wife Marie-Claire. After a sports injury in 1963, Noah's father returned to Africa with his family. He was living in Cameroon when he made his debut in tennis and was discovered at age 11 by Arthur Ashe and Charlie Pasarell. He soon showed an amazing talent that eventually brought him to the French Tennis Federation's training center in Nice in 1971.
Noah turned professional in 1977 and won his first top-level singles title in 1978 in Manila.
Noah became France's most prominent tennis hero in 1983, becoming the first Frenchman in 37 years to win the French Open, one of the four Grand Slam singles events. He dropped only one set during the two-week-long tournament, and defeated the defending champion, Sweden's Mats Wilander in straight sets in the final, 6–2, 7–5, 7–6. He remains the last and most recent Frenchman to have won the French Open men's singles title.
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