On the occasion of the release of Danielle Bombardier’s book, steward of the players, the winner of Roland-Garros in 1983 calls for change.
Tennis is his whole life. A key figure in the field, Danielle Bombardier, 82, has surveyed every players lounges French tournaments by taking care of the stewardship for the attention of the champions on many tournaments since 1973. All without knowing how to speak English! “I speak it with my hands only, but I understand it». (Laughs.) Yannick Noah considers her to be his “Second mother”. The winner of Roland-Garros 1983 prefaced his book “50 years behind the scenes of world tennis” (Look for noon). It is he who is at the origin of the project and who pushed “the Bomb”, one of his nicknames, to put down his memories, distributing crushes and scratches: “During a dinner at the end of the first confinement, two of my friends had spoken to “Babie” about making a testimonial book, Yannick Noah tells Figaro. And, at the end of the evening, it was obvious. I found the idea so funny. It’s a story of friendships.»
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Born in Rabat (Morocco) on August 7, 1938,
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