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This is a week old. But blog totally worthy! The NY Times and Andy Samberg shoot an homage to the great legends of tennis. And he doesn’t dissapoint! Photographer Walter Iooss and Picturehouse did a phenomenal job! The McEnroe is genious. Click here for the rest of the pics. The full article with video as [...]
Continue Reading →Patrick McEnroe announced via a news conference at the US Open this morning that he will be resigning from his Davis Cup captaincy. Via USTA.org: “It is with a heavy heart that I am resigning as Davis Cup captain, but it is a decision I felt was best for the team and myself right now,” [...]
Continue Reading →Here’s a funny Nike ad starring Maria Sharapova, John McEnroe and a bunch of non-tennis athletes. Love the grunt-removal system! Hope to see that taking effect soon. Did they create an obscenity-removal system for Johnny Mac?
Continue Reading →Steve Tignor wrote an interesting viewpoint piece at tennis.com with the title “Excessive civility muting the men’s game?” Have you read it already? If not, click here. If you have, can you please explain it to me? Here’s what I’ve figured so far. . . Tignor begins by comparing two US Open semifinal handshakes – [...]
Continue Reading →So Roger Federer played second fiddle today, taking the court against Tommy Robredo after Melanie Oudin’s big win over Nadia Petrova. He did his best to wow the crowd in his own way, coming back from a tight first set to dominate the Spaniard in vintage Fed style: 7-5, 6-2, 6-2. I loved what Roger [...]
Continue Reading →Novak Djokovic was in the mood for more tennis after dominating Radek Stepanek 6-1, 6-3, 6-3, in the Round of 16 at the US Open on Monday night. After his new coach, Todd Martin, turned him down, he went for the sure thing and asked John McEnroe to come down from the ESPN broadcast booth [...]
Continue Reading →Some interesting video and interviews from Wednesday’s Game. Set. NYC. event in Manhattan. John McEnroe talks about Roger Federer’s possible postnatal let-down and Rafael Nadal tells the world that he may be “too fresh” to win the US Open: Pish posh, I say! They both look good to me! And really, is John McEnroe one [...]
Continue Reading →Here are some photos of Roger Federer at today’s Game, Set, NYC promotion sponsored by Nike with John McEnroe and kids from a local tennis program. Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams were there too (in the flesh, not just in the posters) – stay tuned for more photographs.
Continue Reading →John McEnroe said the use of injury timeouts is “absolutely an epidemic” on the tour, speaking Wednesday via an ESPN2 conference call. The latest outbreak of timeout-itis occurred last weekend in Montreal, when Juan Martin del Potro called the trainer twice and took a bathroom break during his championship match against Andy Murray. The Argentine [...]
Continue Reading →Yes, this is what it takes to get World Team Tennis on SportsCenter. (Notice at the beginning that it’s categorized as a “Tennis Incident”!) What’s next? A cage around the court? Helmets and body armor? Anna Kournikova Warrior Princess? Seems to me that Kendrick completely overreacted to a standard doubles play and McEnroe should have [...]
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