FFT appoints Yannick Noah as national paratennis coordinator

The last French player to win the French Open in the men's singles, Yannick Noah has not finished his mission with tennis.

Former captain of France in the Davis Cup, the 64-year-old will also take on the same role with Team Europe in the Laver Cup from 2025.

And that's not all, as the French Tennis Federation has just announced that Yannick Noah has been appointed national paratennis coordinator.

From now on, he will be in charge of all paratennis activities within the National Technical Department, namely wheelchair tennis, deaf and hard-of-hearing tennis and ceci-tennis.

"His mission will be to pursue the structuring of the paratennis department by steering the training and "high level" strategy and supporting the development of all paratennis practices in France", writes the FFT on its website.

The principal interested party reacted after landing his new post: "I'm delighted to be joining the paratennis team at the Fédération Française de Tennis.

I would like to thank the FFT for the trust it has placed in me for this new mission, which is particularly close to my heart.

I had an incredible human experience working alongside the players of the French wheelchair tennis team at the Paris Paralympic Games, and I didn't want this great story to end there.

I want to be fully involved in the development of paratennis", he confided in the FFT press release on Thursday.