TAG: John McEnroe
It’s surprising the tennis media hasn’t mentioned the passing of the fine author of one of the greatest tennis books ever written – Hard Courts: A look at one year on the mens’ and womens’ professional tennis tours (1990). Feinstein authored 44 books in total, including the hugely popular Season On The Brink, about Indiana […] Continue to read full article...
Hard Courts · John Feinstein · John McEnroe · Monica Seles · Pete Sampras · Ted Tinling
After almost 30 years of playing tournaments I got defaulted out of St. Pete Level 2 National tournament. John McEnroe knows the feeling, he got the boot after saying to the chair umpire at 1990 Australian Open, “Just go **** your mother” after two previous code violations (during a tough match vs Mikael Pernfors). My […] Continue to read full article...
Former ATP top fifteen player Janko Tipsarevic is now coaching Denis Shapovalov and they are together in Dubai, a Tipsarevic academy coach told me at the IMG International Junior Championships last week in Bradenton, FL. Stefan Kozlov has won two Casely $10,000 tournaments this month in Sarasota and Miami, beating ATP 1600 player Obrad Markovski […] Continue to read full article...
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Asics · Clostebol · Emma Raducanu · John McEnroe · Led Zeppelin · Novak Djokovic · US Open
Former ATP top 60 player Gilad Bloom explained his analysis of the ed of John McEnroe’s tennis supremacy: “The switch from wood racquets made McEnroe better and helped his game – his serve got better, more power, his volleys improved, had more bite and so did his ground strokes, with the continental grip he was […] Continue to read full article...
Dunlop · French Open · Gilad Bloom · John McEnroe · Novak Djokovic · US Open · Wimbledon
Jun/24
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McEnroe Implies Conspiracy Beat Djokovic In Paris
10 Comments · Posted by Scoop Malinowski in Articles, Scoop
John McEnroe said on Eurosport that the French Open threw Novak Djokovic under the bus with the insane 3 am match finish time vs Lorenzo Musetti. This is a bombshell revelation because it implies that the French Open and the tennis deep state conspired via nefarious scheduling to doom Novak Djokovic. This is very interesting… […] Continue to read full article...
By Scoop Malinowski Patrick Rafter was paid a six figure appearance fee to play in Doha and lost second round. After the loss when he was supposed to be paid, Rafter declined to take the money because he told the tournament director that he wasn’t happy with his losing performance. Meanwhile, the no. 1 seed […] Continue to read full article...
Brian Gottfried · John McEnroe · Ons Jabeur · Patrick Rafter · Pete Sampras
By Scoop Malinowski Tennis is a sport composed of a diverse range of attributes including elegance, athleticism, speed, timing, anticipation, tactics, intelligence, will to win, joy, passion. And also one element that is rarely discussed. Rage. Recently I was talking with a friend Behn Wilson, who was an NHL defenseman for the Philadelphia Flyers and […] Continue to read full article...
Behn WIlson · John McEnroe · Marat Safin · Novak Djokovic · Roger Federer · Serena Williams
By Scoop Malinowski Chris Lewis shared this wonderful story about the heart of gold side of John McEnroe’s character that is often overshadowed by his tennis artistry and ferocious will to win… (By the way, Lewis played McEnroe in the 1983 Wimbledon final, a 62 62 62 defeat.) In 2004 I was living in New […] Continue to read full article...
Nov/23
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Norman Holmes Immortalized By Tennis Great
7 Comments · Posted by Scoop Malinowski in Articles, Scoop
By Scoop Malinowski There is no chance you have heard of Norman Holmes. It’s a tennis name that is never mentioned. The one time in recent decades the name Norman Holmes was mentioned in the tennis universe was unforgettably prolific though. An all time great Grand Slam legend mentioned Norman Holmes in his biography in […] Continue to read full article...
