Yannick Noah 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 Memphis Grizzlies 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
Jonathan Canter that season were semi-final appearances at Montreal and Toronto. In Montreal, he had a win over world number four Yannick Noah. Jonathan Canter Jonathan Canter (born June 4, 1965) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Canter was born in Los Angeles, where his father, Stanley S. Canter, worked as a film producer. His father, who was also manager of Jimmy Connors for a time, produced films such as "", "Tarzan and the Lost City" and "Hornets' Nest", which he also wrote. The promising junior made the quarter-finals of the US Open in 1981 and the following