You all should read Jimmys book to understand the context of this exchange before you make judgement of it

mcenroe was very good but i cant put him up there with the all time greats

Rostagno the only player to have beaten Sampras, McEnroe and Connors at Wimbledon.

Shlomo has no real strategy. Just stay in the point and hope he makes a mistake.

Money grabber

Connor’s coaching Mac would have lasted 30 seconds. Both with huge egos and personalities. Do it this way Mac. No! I’m doing it like this! No Mac, try it like this. To hell with this! Storms off… haha!

Navratilova was known as a cheater and dumping women right and left.

Other than Djokavic and Nadal I couldn't name any other current tennis player. 40 years ago the contrasting styles of the 'Big 3' Borg Connors and McEnroe made it so great to follow but those days are over. Nothing great lasts forever and not much interest in the game.

Mcenroe, like he could at times, looked a touch fat here. He was never really a slave to the gym! He did actually look a bit more like the old Mac at this tournament, but unfortunately came up against a Lendl in his absolute prime in the quarters

Jon's a great tennis guitarist Like pat cash

This felt more like a threapy session than an interview. This was great stuff. McEnroe was always good with the media, win or lose.

great sound

I love relating to champions with personal flaws and champions who own up to them. McEnroe and Connor’s both top blokes

Entertaining hosts.

McEnroe aged terribly and his game took a nosedive after 1984

Used to see them a to at Turnberry Country Club in Aventura ,Fl.....Playing tennis, having lunch......Even messing around on the golf course......Never hated each other...not really

This is from 1991 as that is when the Tigers basically fired Ernie Harwell(He did come back in 1993)

Fed and Djokovic managed to juggle their family and tennis lives much better than Mac I think!

Should've taken Jimbo up on coaching offer.

Does anyone know where i can get the book' love match', by Judy Nelson. I would love to read this, i was only 15 when this happened but remember it well.

How did the shuttle set get there? Btw I’m the same person that’s my gaming channel. 👇

Tanner was very underestimated. He was way faster than he looked. His backhand was amazing. Great volleys, a good hard flat forehand with his continental grip and of course the Tanner serve. Tanner was hitting serves 150 mph long before modern racket tech was invented.

I thought that they used different track types from ind and irt

That could have been like Apollo and Rocky

GOAT

I remember the men's doubles final. It started as an incredible match and it ended as a joke. All of the first 3 sets went to tiebreakers. They were tied at 1 set each. While in the third set tiebreaker, a ball screamed past the long hair of Ken Flach. The Frenchmen thought the ball hit Flach's hair, so it would be their point. I'm not sure whether or not it hit his hair, and Flach said he wasn't sure either. The referee ruled in favor of Flach and Seguso. Flach and Seguso won the 3rd set. Afterwards, the Frenchmen gave up and lost the 4th set 6-0. Completely inexcusable that the Frenchmen just quit.

The day that Lendl beat McEnroe at the US Open in 1985 is a day I will never forget in my entire life...

Though Borg.. Connors.. Mcnroe.. Lendl were stealing the limelight... I got to hear Rosco Tanner hell of Z lot. We had no TV then.. It was all news paper.. Watching this clip.. No suprise he was a fantastic talent of that time.....

Connors was trying to pick a fight, but Lendl did not take the bait.

Tanner was fun to watch

So what happened? 😮

This was when Becker was going through a little crisis of confidence. Didn't really get properly back on track till early 88.

You will enjoy this film a lot more if you turn the volume all the way down! You'll know what I mean after hearing a few minutes of Bud Collins blabbering away!

Interestingly, McEnroe DID do much better at the US Open. Unseeded, he plowed into the semis and only lost because he ran into Sampras, the eventual winner.

What hurt both Connors and McEnroe was mainly Ivan Lendl coming into his prime and dominating Tennis.

I hadnt realised that Judy Nelson was around 11 years older than Martina, or perhaps some of the dynamics of her relationship with Judy, until I read this famously scathing criticism Camille Paglia wrote about Martina in the 90s: "It began with my disillusion with Martina Navratilova, the darling of the lesbian world, who used to symbolize for me the athletic new militance of my generation of feminists. Her rival, Chris Evert, was the nice Catholic girl, the goody- two-shoes whom I loathed, since she was everything we who were reared in the Fifties were expected to be. However, I came to see that Chris is the stronger of the two - that Martina has a childish streak and that that childishness is inextricable from her lesbianism. At key moments in important matches, Martina would glance up toward the stands and shrug or grin shamefacedly at Judy Nelson, her mature blonde lover, who was nodding and clapping like a hovering kindergarten teacher. It drove me crazy. Why did the premier Amazon of our time need a substitute mother figure? When things went wrong, Martina couldn't conceal her self-pity; the mask of strength would crumble, and she'd storm around the court in a snit. Meanwhile, Chris Evert never threw a tantrum, groused at opponents, or blamed officials. A bad call produced a steely stare, at most. Chris behaved like an adult, taking full responsibility for her performance and deportment. Classy Chris Evert is a better role model for young women than Martina, whose hyperdeveloped masculine musculature is overcom- pensation for her creampuff interior."

2 GRANDS JOUEURS FABULEUX

Mcenroe was and is a typical spoiled rich prick ..basically the face of white America.

I pretty much play exactly like Brad Gilbert. If you win you win.

Head Coach Bill Belicek said, "You have to embrace the grind."

Vitas gerulatis murdered months later by cia operatives

John is an authentic tennis legend

Ils ont des points communs. The french , jamais gagné. 😊 John est passé très près de la victoire et Jimmy a été interdit de Roland Garros quelques années 😊

This is great !

Andres Gomez se parece mucho a Pete Sampras

Nastase at 11:55 threw a ball at an official. Crazy how fast he’d be ejected for that today.

Wow, John took a break after being disqualified? This really puts another light on him in my perception of him. I always thought, that he was well aware of possible disqualifications and finally accepted them willingly as part of his personality.

Dick Enberg couldn’t get in that men’s locker room fast enough..he was just disappointed the showers weren’t being used..lol

As a Brit now, I prefer the AO & USO slams to Wimbledon now. Why? I only ever saw Queens & Wimbledon on TV the other Slams weren't covered unlike the golf for some reason. Wimbledon has become an anachronism, so in love with itself that the tennis comes second. The Slams above are just about the tennis & I prefer it now. 2023 Wimb was dire apart from Andy's 2nd match. Even the final, despite being 5 sets, never really got going for me. I started watching in 1970 & took me an eternity to understand the rules, 'juice'?😊 I'd like to see only one serve, the first is only about getting an ace, most 2nd serves go over the net unlike the 1st, so why do it.

off topic, but roscoe tanner was hot! very handsome and built unlike a tennis player...