On the court, he pouted, cursed, threw his racket. . . . He was a crybaby ... points before prevailing, 18-16. McEnroe, though, couldn't break Borg again and lost the fifth set, 8-6.
But when Mac got his head straight, his life and game in order, and a new, midsize graphite racquet ... break in the fourth set, before suffering the most painful defeat of his career. But McEnroe ...
the 38-year old made the decision to hang up his racket in front of home fans in Malaga this November. Former US Davis Cup captain Patrick McEnroe gave his thoughts on the Spaniard's retirement.
In his early years, McEnroe had been tennis’ temperamental teenage artist, a magician with a racquet who was one bad call away from self-destruction. In ’81, McEnroe, 21 and reaching his prime ...
“You gotta go with a wooden racket,” Federer tells me when starting his list, “the Jack Kramer or the Dunlop with John McEnroe resonates with me.” The first two rackets on the Federer list ...
One recreates the fabled rivalry between Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe, while the other tells ... who playfully used a tennis racket to strain spaghetti in Billy Wilder's 1960 classic.