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September 26th, 2021

Team Europe Cruises To Fourth Straight Laver Cup Win

The Laver Cup is over.

Posted by Staff @ 9:12 pm in Laver Cup | Comments Off on Team Europe Cruises To Fourth Straight Laver Cup Win

December 16th, 2016

John McEnroe: Roger Federer And Rafael Nadal, You Can’t Imagine Them Playing Two More Years!

John McEnroe talks tennis.

Posted by Staff @ 7:44 pm in GOAT | 28 Comments »

June 30th, 2016

Have Milos Raonic And John McEnroe Already Split?

Tim Henman says that Milos Raonic and John McEnroe have split.

Posted by Tom Gainey @ 7:14 pm in Coaching, Wimbledon | 6 Comments »

May 30th, 2016

Milos Raonic: There’s A Lot I Want To Achieve, That’s Why I Hired John McEnroe

What does Milos Raonic think about John McEnroe?

Posted by Tom Gainey @ 4:31 pm in Coaching, French Open | 12 Comments »

May 27th, 2016

John McEnroe Announces He’ll Help Coach Milos Raonic At Wimbledon

Let’s wait and hear what Milos Raonic says about this.

Posted by Tom Gainey @ 4:20 pm in French Open | 12 Comments »

August 20th, 2015

John McEnroe Says He Could Beat Serena Williams, Could He? [Video]

John McEnroe thinks he can beat Serena Williams.

Posted by Tom Gainey @ 3:11 pm in Cincinnati, Videos | 15 Comments »

July 1st, 2015

John McEnroe Says Stan Wawrinka Has The Greatest Shot In Tennis History, Brad Gilbert Responds No Way [Video]

Brad Gilbert dumps on John McEnroe

Posted by Tom Gainey @ 10:37 am in Videos, Wimbledon | 24 Comments »

December 8th, 2013

John McEnroe Rips Doubles, Says He’ll Take Federer/Nadal Over The Bryans Any Day!

John McEnroe ripped into the doubles tour last week.

Posted by Tom Gainey @ 10:24 am in Doubles | 58 Comments »

August 12th, 2013

Pete Sampras: Andy Murray Is On His Way To Doing Great Things!

The legends of tennis weighed in on some topics Saturday night.

Posted by Tom Gainey @ 10:13 am in Canadian Open | 7 Comments »

December 8th, 2012

Looking Through The Years: Federer Is Better than Ever

We all know the greatness that is Roger Federer. We know that, at this point, literally every match he places bares some kind of historic significance.

Posted by Ben Pronin @ 10:11 am in 2012 Season, ATP | 221 Comments »

October 3rd, 2011

Nadal Headlines Tokyo; Tennis-X Weekend Dish

Michael Chang on playing John McEnroe: “I played John McEnroe for the first time at the French Open in ’88, which was the year before I won in ’89. The press conference the day before, John was saying, ‘I’m going to play this 16-year-old kid and I’m going to kill him.’ It’s kind of tough not shaking in your shoes at that. My first mistake was that I let him walk out on the court first. The Parisians love John, and he raised his hands like he was royalty, and I walked out after him feeling like the little ball boy who was going to carry his stuff.”…

Posted by Staff @ 1:09 am in Tennis | 28 Comments »

August 21st, 2011

Sharapova Weathers 16 Break Match for Cincy Title; X-Notes

Sharapova one-upped her appearance in last year’s final where she lost to Kim Clijsters after holding three match points. The Russian also improved to 11-0 this year in three-set matches after outlasting Jankovic in what was the longest final on the WTA tour this year.

Posted by Staff @ 10:59 pm in Tennis | 9 Comments »

August 17th, 2011

McEnroe Brothers: Novak Djokovic is Not an Overwhelming Favorite to Win the US Open

The McEnroe brothers don’t think Novak Djokovic is the overwhelming US Open favorite.

Posted by Staff @ 5:00 pm in US Open | 29 Comments »

August 17th, 2011

John McEnroe: Ryan Harrison is a Top 15, Top 10 Player

John McEnroe gives his thoughts on Ryan Harrison.

Posted by Staff @ 4:52 pm in US Open | Comments Off on John McEnroe: Ryan Harrison is a Top 15, Top 10 Player

June 18th, 2011

Bartoli, Seppi, Tursunov, Vinci Collect Pre-Wimbledon Grass Titles; X-Notes

John Isner on playing Nicolas Mahut again: “It’s going to be pretty nuts. I couldn’t believe it. I joked with him earlier in the week, last week, and said, ‘Watch us play each other.’ And he said, ‘No, there’s no way. That’s not even funny.'”

Posted by Staff @ 5:37 pm in Tennis, Wimbledon | 45 Comments »