PARIS — Yannick Noah, the 1983 French Open champion, has been appointed as the brand new head of France’s para tennis starting subsequent yr.
The French tennis federation mentioned in an announcement Thursday that Noah will likely be in control of coordinating wheelchair, visually impaired in addition to deaf and hard-of-hearing tennis actions.
Noah had a primary expertise with incapacity tennis over the summer time when he led the France males’s wheelchair tennis crew on the Paris Paralympic Video games.
“His major function will likely be to proceed structuring the para tennis division by steering the coaching and ‘excessive stage’ technique and supporting the event of all para tennis actions throughout the nation,” the French tennis federation mentioned.
Noah, a celeb in his dwelling nation, is the final man from France to win a Grand Slam singles title and reached a career-best No. 3 within the ATP rankings in 1986. He later was his nation’s Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup captains, main each groups to championships.
He was inducted into the Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Fame in 2005.
Noah mentioned he was “delighted” by his appointment to guide a “new mission, which is especially near my coronary heart.”
“I had an unimaginable human expertise working alongside the gamers within the French wheelchair tennis crew on the Paralympic Video games in Paris and I did not need this nice story to finish there,” he mentioned.