“It didn’t make it any easier, the amount of money that was spent on lawyers and going to trial,” Noah says. “Financially, you combine those two things [tennis and divorce], you didn’t have any extra money, you really didn’t.”
At 5 feet 10 inches and 155 pounds, Noah is significantly smaller than most pro players he’ll face. He tries to compensate with speed, hustle, and precision, a combination that has kept 5-foot-9, 160-pound David Ferrer of Spain in the world top 10 since 2010.
Noah hopes a long pro career will allow him to pay back his parents for all their financial and personal sacrifices. The junior Wimbledon title was a first installment.
“Both parents, but especially my dad, hid a lot of the negative effects of what my tennis was doing to him,” Noah says. “When I won Wimbledon, my feeling of happiness was more for him than anything else.”