TAG: John McEnroe
John McEnroe has found his lost broadcasting mojo. Last year McEnroe was somewhat unimpressive during his Grand Slam announcing broadcasts, not saying anything really interesting or intriguing for most of the year, which we all know he can do when he wants to. Maybe he was bored, maybe he was mailing it in, maybe he […] Continue to read full article...
AO · ESPN · John McEnroe
Nov/25
30
Pat Cash Autobiography Uncovered Dropped Truth Bombs
17 Comments · Posted by Scoop Malinowski in Bios
I’ve read a lot of tennis books and no autobiography has ever dropped more truth bombs than Pat Cash’s Uncovered which was published in 2002. Here is the first truth bomb of when I will post many more… “Six months earlier (1997) John McEnroe had declared that the last two remaining great bastions of communism […] Continue to read full article...
Ivan Lendl · John McEnroe · Pat Cash · Petr Korda · Thomas Muster
Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori defended their mixed doubles title and pocketed $1m, that’s an $800,000 raise from last year’s mixed doubles payday the Italian team earned. They beat Ruud/Iga in the final 63 57 10-6. Errani said this after the win during her on court speech: “I think this one is for all the […] Continue to read full article...
Tennis is a fascinating game that has produced wondrous action, marvelous champions and also a few very profound quotations… “Tennis is a fistfight without the fists.” – Tracy Austin “I handle pressure differently than Borg. I’d rather go berserk on court for 30 seconds than let it build up for years. If you keep it […] Continue to read full article...
Q. With the technology the way it is today is the beauty and the grace that you displayed, is that gone forever. I mean, Pete probably comes — he has that total game, but is the aggressive tone of the game today, has that diminished what you guys used to do? ROD LAVER: A lot […] Continue to read full article...
Australia · John McEnroe · Pete Sampras · Rod Laver · US Open · Wimbledon
With the geometry and elegance of the game of tennis, there are always some artsy results in photography… Continue to read full article...
May/25
28
When McEnroe Lectured Sampras For Being Boring
2 Comments · Posted by Scoop Malinowski in Bios
By Scoop Malinowski Tennis is a serious sport which requires infinite focus and concentration so it’s understandable that many top players like Ruud, Sinner, Fritz, Hurkacz, deMinaur, Opelka, Draper, Humbert may be considered boring – while the colorful, charismatic types like Kyrgios, Moutet, Fonseca, Carlos, Medvedev, Djokovic are the rare breed who stand out and […] Continue to read full article...
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...
