McEnroe didn't want to play on a damp court, he said, because it dulled his attacking game.
"He's going to have to play the best match he's played in a long time, " McEnroe said.
Kournikova's former coach Nick Bolletierri once said she had the potential as a shot-maker to rival John McEnroe.
The McEnroe-Connors era gave way to the Sampras-Agassi-Courier-Chang era, and American tennis and its popularity was in good hands.
McEnroe touched on the incidents of the past two days and invited Serena to address them to her fans.
"We want to put it in place systematically so we can raise the bar and have more players, " McEnroe said.
"At some stage of the event, it would be likely that she won't have one of her best days, " McEnroe said.
John McEnroe, the three-time Wimbledon singles champion and ESPN analyst, said he sees signs of aging when Federer approaches the net.
McEnroe won the match and the tournament and has pretty much been a regular on the now Champions or Legends Tour since.
The show, which had a brief Broadway run in 1961, features music and lyrics by Johnny Burke and book by Robert McEnroe.
In a conference call this week, John McEnroe said the courts at Roland Garros aren't watered as often as they used to be.
It's a little bit like the John McEnroe rule, sitting back and absorbing the game when it's being played at the highest level.
And tennis legend John McEnroe believes the Swiss maestro has the ability to become the most successful Grand Slam player of all time.
Her last two U.S. Open exits against Kim Clijisters and Sam Stosur were anything but pretty, punctuated by diatribes worthy of John McEnroe.
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It's not just tennis fans that appreciate them, the general public know them like a Maria Sharapova, a Boris Becker or a John McEnroe.
Former tennis great John McEnroe has called Federer's forehand the greatest shot in the sport--and it's already won him 13 Grand Slam singles titles.
Despite the support for McEnroe, the flow of young U.S. talent onto the professional circuit remains a trickle rather than the hoped for flood.
McEnroe's book, and though the results sometimes move too fast, especially when compared with Ford's broadly expansive film, most of her cuts serve "Donnybrook!"
This "hyper-arousal" worked for McEnroe in his early career but against him towards the end, when he was unable to control it, says Mr Mahoney.
The defeat means Patrick McEnroe's U.S. team face a relegation playoff later this year to maintain their record of playing in the World Group every year.
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When John McEnroe said back in 1997 that Henman was capable of winning a Grand Slam event, he did not mean it was a foregone conclusion.
That's more than Nadal has played Federer and only four fewer times than John McEnroe played Jimmy Connors (Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras also met 34 times).
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He has lost just once in 2011 as his 48-1 mark, including the Australian Open and Wimbledon, rivals the 1984 season of John McEnroe when he began 52-1.
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"I did the Connors-McEnroe '84 Super Saturday semifinal, " he says.
David Law, who heads up the media operation for the Champions Tour, said that the competitive edge which McEnroe brought to events had been crucial in establishing the circuit.
In response to the problem, the U.S. Tennis Association (USTA) has charged Patrick McEnroe with developing its elite young players, combining this role with captaining their Davis Cup team.
Pete Sampras, the last American man to top the world rankings, has no doubt the USTA made the right choice in selecting McEnroe to his role two years ago.
If he retains his title, extending his record to seven overall in the indoor hard-court event, he will match third-placed John McEnroe on the ATP's career title list with 77.
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After arriving in the checkout queue just ahead of his opponent, Mr McEnroe is distraught to see an employee appear and open another till, giving Mr Borg the upper hand.
McEnroe, whose brother John topped the world rankings in the 1980s, agrees with Roddick about the attractions of other sports, but is not going to make it an excuse for failure.
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