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Article: Making his own racket: Joakim Noah, son of tennis star Yannick, plays for Florida.(college basketball players)
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- March 26, 2006
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Byline: Mike Jensen
Mar. 26--MINNEAPOLIS -- Did Florida center Joakim Noah just jet-set into this NCAA tournament? His father is 1983 French Open champion Yannick Noah, now a European pop singing star. His mother was Miss Sweden 1978. The perception changes as Joakim Noah fills in some blanks. "It must have been hard for him to be a 12-year-old kid having to leave his family in Africa," Noah said of his father. Yannick Noah still is one of the most famous men in France -- "He shines over there," his son said -- but Joakim always saw the rest of it: "I don't think he was very talented in terms of a great forehand or a backhand, but he was a warrior on the ...
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