The French extension player Yannick Noah will captain the French men’s wheelchair tennis team at the Paris Paralympic Games, the national Federation (FFT) announced this Thursday.
“Yannick will accept this challenge because He is a man of challenges, he has proven it, he is a leader of people“, declared the president of the FFT, Gilles Moretton, in a press conference at the facilities of Roland-Garros.
The 63-year-old former tennis player winner of a Roland Garros in 1983, He will train with the players for the competition that awaits them between August 28 and September 8.
His figure is very present this 2023 in France, where also the tournament itself Roland Garros he was honored with a large fresco after 40 years of his victory there, the last achieved by a French tennis player.
Noah is no rookie when it comes to captaining. After retiring as a player in 1991he took the lead of the French Davis Cup team, which he led to titles in 1991 and 1997and later the women’s team, where he achieved the Fed Cup in 2017.
Outside of tennis, he also served as the team’s “mental coach”. paris saint germain, as the football club used to be called.
Source: La Verdad
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