Wanaro N'Godrella (18 October 1949 – 26 May 2016) was a French

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player who was active in the late 1960s and the 1970s. His best performance at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the quarterfinals of the singles' event at the 1973 Australian Open in which he was defeated by

Karl Meiler Karl Meiler (30 April 1949 – 17 April 2014) was a tennis player from West Germany who was active in the 1970s and 1980s. Meiler won four singles (1972, Buenos Aires; 1974, Omaha and Calgary; 1977, Manila) and 17 doubles titles during his ...

in four sets. In 1973 and 1974 he played a doubles match for the French

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team. He reached the highest singles ranking of No. 71 in October 1973. N'Godrella reached the second round of the singles' event at the

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in 1972. In 1973 he defeated fifth-seeded

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in the second round of the

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at the

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. The center court at the

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event in his hometown of Nouméa is named for N'Godrella.

Career finals

Doubles (1 runner-up)

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* * * French male tennis players New Caledonian male tennis players 1949 births 2016 deaths Sportspeople from Nouméa 20th-century French sportsmen {{France-tennis-bio-stub