In an exceptional podcast produced by Europe 1 Studio, Yannick Noah confides in Jacques Vendroux 40 years after his mythical victory at Roland-Garros. The former tennis champion looks back on his beginnings, difficult on a personal level, marked by a distance from his family and especially his mother, who agreed to let him go to boarding school.
"Mom has been a mom. It was not ordinary to have your child who leaves so young," he says at the microphone of Europe 1. "I know that there are some French players who were my opponents, and even after I stopped, I put spikes in dolls so that they lose," says the former world number 3.