The best black tennis players in history

Noah completes the circle

Of the four major tournaments, only one resisted black tennis players, which was the French Open, better known as Roland Garros. As fate would have it, that privilege was reserved for a local player like Frenchman Yannick Noah, who in 1983 became the first black tennis player (and the only one to date) to win the Musketeers Cup. He did it in a big way, defeating the current champion, Mats Wilander, 6-2, 7-5, 7-6 in the final. Since then, no Frenchman has been crowned again on Parisian clay.