That's a fault in the system. A referee should be always sitting above the umpire (on a seat above him) so that he can overrule if need be. No use sitting somewhere behind the scenes.
The issue is that nobody wouldn't forget his temper tantrums, especially umpires. You could throw a tantrum once, or twice, but not throughout whole carrier. Imagine if he would say the same words but without all this aggression. Superb tennis player, but he got played way too much because of his hot head.
@@theconservative1967 No, no tennis player should behave the way John did. He was a disgrace and should have been banned from the sport long before he retired. And watching him now on ESPN is really bad.
Love it and can remember all the matches with John, jimmy, Björn, Ivan, Boris, André, Henry, mats, Stefan and more. Great Times of Tennis , great Entertainment for the whole Family..
Ivan was so boring…..the first one who changed from Serve and Volley to the utterly boring slam bang from the back of the court all the time which is what they call tennis today….citing that it’s the ‘new equipment invented’ as the reason,
@@zoklev Well, I was confused like you with this title, but Richard Ings is just the referee and Boris Becker his opponent. They mentioned 'Becker' a couple of times in the 2nd half of the video.
No point at all, why does Boris Becker had to wait several minutes due to McEnroe's tantrums?, then when he's got to serve is logical that a few more seconds to adjust and resume play are needed, but Mac just wants him to start right over, like if nothing happened, McEnroe is a spoiled brat.
@@andreinekrasov2036 Shut up. If you don't assert yourself, people will walk all over you. Things need to be disputed sometimes. Not everybody is a submissive pushover like you.
Those were the glory days of tennis. I remember watching all the Tennis majors during the summer before I was old enough to drive. I looked forward to those more than the golf majors. Both those two were my favorite players. I'm sure I watched this live. I was probably in middle school.
Yup, McEnroe is totally right on this and the supervisor should have overturned the chair umpire's decision. There was no need for McEnroe to be in the ready position if the other player has a very slow, predictable rhythm.
McEnroe was absolutely right on this one - Becker always took a long time to go into his service motion, and just because he wasn't into a ready/crouch position doesn't mean he wasn't ready to receive, and I think Becker incited this by looking behind him as if McEnroe was delaying due to something going on behind him. Even Becker tries to tell the supervisor that he takes a long time to go into his service motion.
but, if mcenroe had crouched for EVERY other serve in the match, don't you think it natural that Becker would think John's not ready if he's now not crouching for the first time in X amount of serves?
mtshishimbi Oh shut up! McEnroe was one of the very biggest stall tactic servers in the history of the game. Maybe the biggest!! Take a look at some of his matches against Lendl. There are service games where he is taking a good 30 seconds over the allotted 30 seconds, 60 seconds in total and he did it over and over mostly in the most crucial games. This big mouthed asshat crying about stalling tactics is the biggest joke in tennis history.
Why? For showing kids how to act entitled and behave badly when things don't go their way? He was a great player but he was not a great sportsman. He had no control over his emotions and missing someone like that seems to me like you're missing the wrong things.
He was most often right, but not always. He far too often acted out of line, even when he was right. I love him to this day. He is great for tennis. His outbursts wouldn't have happened if he didn't have the passion that is within him. His 1984 season is probably the greatest of all time. He is a mixture of intelligence, a lack of self control, fire, talent, immaturity, insight, and a million other conflicting things.
can you please explain!? The only thing is that I wouldn't have waited for MacEnroe to take whatever position after the first argument between MacEnroe and the umpire/supervisor. Despite I still would not consider holding the racket by the frame shows "ready to receive", that was deliberate provocation...!
Remember Johnny Mac always played the long game with chair umps. Challenge them in the smaller venues so he had leverage in the big ones. The announcers mentioning Ings and the US Open is a classic example. 80's tennis put a large amount of pressure on chair umpires to get their work up to snuff and rightfully so. Up until the 80's most chair umpires never really took the time to improve themselves. With Connors, McEnroe, Wilander, and a few others putting on the pressure, they did. Now the pressure has flipped back to the players by giving them a chance to overrule via the computer.
The major change regarding tennis officiating came in 1978 when Dick Roberson was hired to train professional chair umpires. The "pressure" from the players was in the form of on-court tantrums (often justified) which resulted in lower attendance and the loss of tournament sponsors.
McEnroe was 100% correct here. The umpire made a completely emotional decision. The umpire completely exacerbated this. Becker wasn't blameless either.
The umpire has to remember and watch eternally that he was petty and wrong and used poor judgment. Mc gets to chuckle and sit back with pride that once again he was right and stood up for himself and the game.
Mcenroe was absolutely on the line ready to return, just relaxed until the server goes into his motion. Umpire didn't have the balls to call a code of conduct violation seconds before, then his ego kicked in so he made up a violation.
Exactly. Ings clearly regretted not giving McEnroe a warning for verbal abuse, so he used the delay as an excuse to give him one. Becker really controlled the pace there and played the umpire AND McEnroe. I don't see people criticizing Becker for that, but they should.
McEnroe was always 1000% right when he made outbursts. That's why he considered these incidents such injustices: because not only did he know he was right, he was so obviously and clearly right everyone in the entire venue knew it too. There were plenty of calls against him, even bad calls, that he didn't make any outburst about. He only called out injustices when they were truly egregious and deserving of it. Good for him standing up for what's right. He was literally standing there at the line ready to play. Ings clearly made a bad call motivated more by "standing up to McEnroe" than calling the game properly.
Disagree, and its Becker's right to start serving, to start the point. Everyone who knows about Boris Becker, knows about his ritual before he serves, which John is right, is about ten seconds. Had Boris done that, and McEnroe was looking another direction, THEN there could be a legit argument made that John was delaying. Instead, Boris was doing this dramatic schtick, of looking behind him, then forward, then behind, looking for John to acknowledge him that hes ready. You can say John was a lil rude for not sticking his racquet up, to signal hes ready, but he doesnt HAVE to do that to prove hes ready for the serve. Instead of Hollywooding it, Becker should have went into his routine, and McEnroe would have played the point. Simple as that. Regardless of all of this, I think the way it looked, and how John stated his side, I think Ings should have been able to admit he was wrong, and waived the penalty.
Disgusting when refs/umpires choose to get personally invested. It doesnt matter if john was talking smack about his family, part of the job is to be entirely impartial/ objective. Always pathetic when the ref needs his presence felt (joey crawford)
Mac was right, but as usual, he didn't handle the situation well. Becker showed real class when he told the officials that he does, in fact, take a long time to prepare his serve. He was defending Mac. They should've listened to Becker, but it seems officials are almost always intransigent about their calls.
You can say whatever you want, but McEnroe was right. (as he most often was). With today's modern technology he would have won most tournaments he played in. one of a kind
When you get the long angle, you can obviously see he's ready to go and Becker is stalling. He's shrugging his fucking shoulders saying LET'S FUCKING GO!
In his autobiography he asks did I get angry with officials because I had such high standards myself and I expected them to be at the same standard? No! I was just an asshole.
I've read somewhere that analysis was done on the old match videos of his games, and the calls he argued about were proven as him being in the right. I've looked for where I read that at and for the life of me I can't find the source. So if anyone else has heard this too, if you have a source please share. Thanks.
I like John McEnroe now, and I can appreciate his determination and dedication to winning. He was a perfectionist and I think sometimes his outburst was a reaction to some error that he himself made, but he also acted like a spoiled brat and on too many occasions where I watched him play, he spoiled what could have been a very good match... I think he had a tendency of digging himself into a hole...
Entertaining! Mac feels disturbed in his concentration with Becker's serve preparation. A bit petty-minded but the friction and the clash with the referees helped him psychologically. Part of his game.
Mac would make a good lawyer. Mac is only exposing the weaknesses (gray areas) in the rules of the game of tennis. Instead of learning to improve the rules with the help of Mac, they go against Mac and any change to the rules like a bible. This happens everywhere, not just on the tennis court.
He was an artist with his (wooden) racquet and equally sharp mind. He was correct more times than not and assertive about it when most of us would just concede that you “can’t fight city hall”. Maybe taking it too far at times- ok definitely- I still admire him.
I have changed my opinion, in regard to my previously-posted comment, about the controversial moment in the McEnroe versus Becker Paris Indoor match. McEnroe was absolutely right in his argument with chair umpire Richard Ings that Becker after bouncing the ball and then looking up, proceeds to take about 10 seconds longer before striking the ball on his serve, so McEnroe as he correctly argued, had plenty of time to bend down into position to receive serve! He rightly argued with Ings that why should he (McEnroe) have to bend down while Becker takes time going through his service preparation ritual!? There is nothing in the rules of tennis that states that the service returner has to be standing in a bent-down position throughout the server's pre-serve preparation ritual! It can, however, be rightly argued that it was not the usual thing for McEnroe to stand straight up awaiting his opponent's serve like he did at that controversial moment in the match in the 1989 Paris Indoor match against Becker, and that, therefore, Becker could rightly assume that McEnroe was not ready to receive serve.
This is good shit....tennis needs more players like John...it’s so boring now maybe even some biff....more rackets smashed and maybe a all in brawl with the crowd......
I cant imagine this guy getting a traffic citation.
😂😂😂😂👍
Ofcourse not. He rides in limos
I was clearly within the lines!
Supervisor made the mistake of basically admitting he cant do anything...Mac: then what can u do?
yeah, Sup' should have said, "i can take another point from you douche bag!"
That's a fault in the system. A referee should be always sitting above the umpire (on a seat above him) so that he can overrule if need be. No use sitting somewhere behind the scenes.
McEnroe is correct. Forget about his 'temper tantrums'. He was right more often than once.
I played junior tennis for many years. Mac had a temper, but the majority of the calls he argued he was right.
Yep, twice.
The issue is that nobody wouldn't forget his temper tantrums, especially umpires. You could throw a tantrum once, or twice, but not throughout whole carrier. Imagine if he would say the same words but without all this aggression.
Superb tennis player, but he got played way too much because of his hot head.
@@theconservative1967 No, no tennis player should behave the way John did. He was a disgrace and should have been banned from the sport long before he retired. And watching him now on ESPN is really bad.
@@jeffreylara3835 watching him play is worth it. It's just his anger moments are just game spoiling.
At that time I was such a Borg fanatic that I understood only too late how good McEnroe actually was.
@@gehteuchnichtsan8306 I know. But I was still a BB fanatic anyway.
@@gehteuchnichtsan8306 boom boom 😆
He didn't realize his potential - his anger and drug use derailed his career.
I need mac to deal with virgin media customer services for me.
LOL
I tried it but they say they won't talk to me if I am angry and hang up. The cowards.
One of the most talented and entertaining players in history! I loved watching tennis back then!!!!
Classic Johnny Mac! Today's robot players matching infront of a robot Crowd...
Wolfgang Markus Gstrein i domt know tennis players in present
Mac is an original not a hackneyed automaton
how are players&audience 'robotic'? are the players too respectfal, skilled, or all-rounded? are audiences too quiet?
Love this .. before the robot generation arrived on earth 😂😂
Very true
To right!!!!!
Robot Generation??? What about Kyrgios, he’s not a robot.
@@brad4571 a lot of talent, he become number 1?
Really, Federer is a robot is he? Kyrgios? Serena? Barty? Osaka?
Love it and can remember all the matches with John, jimmy, Björn, Ivan, Boris, André, Henry, mats, Stefan and more.
Great Times of Tennis , great Entertainment for the whole Family..
You are absolutely right they had cheekenees and charisma about them no like the robots of today love old time players love Anthony Fed ex lol
Don’t forget Ilie Nastase…another brilliant but ‘bad boy’!
Ivan was so boring…..the first one who changed from Serve and Volley to the utterly boring slam bang from the back of the court all the time which is what they call tennis today….citing that it’s the ‘new equipment invented’ as the reason,
No one could out argue John especially when he’s right.
Why not ?!
Fr.A.
McEnroe vs Becker duels has always been enjoyable and fascinating! Two very aggressive players and styles as they are both serve and volleyers! ☮️🖖🏽
what does this 'Becker' have to do w/ this vid?
@@zoklev Well, I was confused like you with this title, but Richard Ings is just the referee and Boris Becker his opponent. They mentioned 'Becker' a couple of times in the 2nd half of the video.
@@zoklev….Becker managed to play the victim. The gullible referee bought it.
I thought McEnroe had a valid point. The umpire handled it very poorly.
tchevrier Nobody likes a whiner. Umpire was too kind, letting him make a spectacle. His rant wasn't even entertaining.
To me, it looked like the umpire jumped the gun on the pace of play warning because he was too chicken to call him on the outburst prior.
No point at all, why does Boris Becker had to wait several minutes due to McEnroe's tantrums?, then when he's got to serve is logical that a few more seconds to adjust and resume play are needed, but Mac just wants him to start right over, like if nothing happened, McEnroe is a spoiled brat.
@@andreinekrasov2036 Shut up. If you don't assert yourself, people will walk all over you. Things need to be disputed sometimes. Not everybody is a submissive pushover like you.
@@ARedMotorcycle looks like that’s why umpires need to stand up to McEnroe
I cant IMAGINE him as a child!! can u imagine yourself as his parent? OMG...
Those were the glory days of tennis. I remember watching all the Tennis majors during the summer before I was old enough to drive. I looked forward to those more than the golf majors. Both those two were my favorite players. I'm sure I watched this live. I was probably in middle school.
I'm willing to bet that these umpires made these bogus calls just to make McEnroe have a tantrum. It makes for good viewing.
I wud totally agree with you
Heehee yX-D ❤️🏆🥇🏅
This guy would have LOVED slo-mo instant replay cam!
When the slo-mo cams started coming out, they were commonly called them the "Mac Cam"s.
i've played tennis most of my life , this umpire had a hard on for mcEnroe , who was completely in the right from what i saw on this tape .
video from 80s has higher resolution that the one from 2000s
Yup, McEnroe is totally right on this and the supervisor should have overturned the chair umpire's decision. There was no need for McEnroe to be in the ready position if the other player has a very slow, predictable rhythm.
@@antskangro9020 Yep. Histrionics was his tactic whenever he was losing momentum in a match.
No wonder John lost his hair early , a lot of stress
I love Johnny Mac...my all time favorite
Plus Ilie and Jimbo.
We need more McEnroe’s in all sports
We need more McEnroes’ in Congress. Shit would get done.
Yeah, get off their entitled, stinking , dead asses and move some REAL, GREATER WORLD, SOCIETY POLICIES...
You cannot be serious. 🇬🇧👍
That’s why eagle eye was invented. To stop the McEnroe’s of the world.
"Oh u can't. What do u do then?"
john mcenroe was 100 percent right on this one
This guy,mac deserves my respect.
Tennis was great in the 80’s! Just the whole atmosphere in the stadium is so much different compared to today.
I miss a player like him.
I don’t.
@@csabakereszturi945 you can't be serious
Made the game so much fun to watch
I miss those times în tennis....!!
@@ryuke79 _YOU CAN NOT BE SERIOUS_
McEnroe, 1981 🤣
McEnroe was absolutely right on this one - Becker always took a long time to go into his service motion, and just because he wasn't into a ready/crouch position doesn't mean he wasn't ready to receive, and I think Becker incited this by looking behind him as if McEnroe was delaying due to something going on behind him. Even Becker tries to tell the supervisor that he takes a long time to go into his service motion.
but, if mcenroe had crouched for EVERY other serve in the match, don't you think it natural that Becker would think John's not ready if he's now not crouching for the first time in X amount of serves?
Mac knew the kid was better. Creating a distraction was his thing.
mtshishimbi Oh shut up! McEnroe was one of the very biggest stall tactic servers in the history of the game. Maybe the biggest!! Take a look at some of his matches against Lendl. There are service games where he is taking a good 30 seconds over the allotted 30 seconds, 60 seconds in total and he did it over and over mostly in the most crucial games. This big mouthed asshat crying about stalling tactics is the biggest joke in tennis history.
What year was this?
McEnroe behaved like a little baby. I would've slapped a game penalty on him.
I don't even watch Tennis on TV nowadays, really miss the tennis gangster McEnroe.
now he is commentating matches and giving lessons of good behaviour live ...
Why? For showing kids how to act entitled and behave badly when things don't go their way? He was a great player but he was not a great sportsman. He had no control over his emotions and missing someone like that seems to me like you're missing the wrong things.
99% of the time, John was RIGHT.
And yet 99% of the time lost the argument :)
Sadly , won only 7 slams , should have at least 12
yes , the piece of shit was usually right
He was wrong arguing about the out call though. It's clearly out.
He was most often right, but not always. He far too often acted out of line, even when he was right. I love him to this day. He is great for tennis. His outbursts wouldn't have happened if he didn't have the passion that is within him. His 1984 season is probably the greatest of all time. He is a mixture of intelligence, a lack of self control, fire, talent, immaturity, insight, and a million other conflicting things.
The John (You Cannot Be Serious) McEnroe Show
love this. thank you. Boris Boom Boom Becker arguing on, probably, his heroes (McEnroes) behalf.
No he wasn't!
McEnroe was always right. Just like Federer. Brilliant players, played to the rules. Just not everyone's cup of tea. Legends
John McEnroe, was 100% correct.
can you please explain!? The only thing is that I wouldn't have waited for MacEnroe to take whatever position after the first argument between MacEnroe and the umpire/supervisor. Despite I still would not consider holding the racket by the frame shows "ready to receive", that was deliberate provocation...!
Imagine if John McEnroe had the hawk eye. Poor referees
wow i could watch this forever love you john mcenroe
Imagine McEnroe dealing with a border patrol checkpoint 😂😂
Remember Johnny Mac always played the long game with chair umps. Challenge them in the smaller venues so he had leverage in the big ones. The announcers mentioning Ings and the US Open is a classic example. 80's tennis put a large amount of pressure on chair umpires to get their work up to snuff and rightfully so. Up until the 80's most chair umpires never really took the time to improve themselves. With Connors, McEnroe, Wilander, and a few others putting on the pressure, they did. Now the pressure has flipped back to the players by giving them a chance to overrule via the computer.
The major change regarding tennis officiating came in 1978 when Dick Roberson was hired to train professional chair umpires. The "pressure" from the players was in the form of on-court tantrums (often justified) which resulted in lower attendance and the loss of tournament sponsors.
Never seen this one. Could be one of my favorites. Maybe even better than"answer my question !!!!! "
😂😂
McEnroe, Borg, Conners.. when tennis was awesome 👍😎❤️👍
John McEnroe the best. The king !!
drama-king. the guy was a pussy...
incompetent supervisor
McEnroe was 100% correct here. The umpire made a completely emotional decision. The umpire completely exacerbated this. Becker wasn't blameless either.
Richard Ing's HAIRCUT IS PUNISHMENT ENOUGH!
This is me at work. Every day. Only difference is I do not go home with big bucks.
I feel your pain 😂.
And u always lose the argument 😂
"He was just trying to make a point." And that cost him a point.
I love this old fashioned Tennis
The umpire has to remember and watch eternally that he was petty and wrong and used poor judgment. Mc gets to chuckle and sit back with pride that once again he was right and stood up for himself and the game.
The tennis world wasn't quite ready for Johnny Mac. Or vice-versa.
Love to see McEnroe act.He was such a elgante player. He is my all time favorite, but not against Borg in Wimbledon.
Lol
The Earl Weaver of tennis
Mcenroe was absolutely on the line ready to return, just relaxed until the server goes into his motion. Umpire didn't have the balls to call a code of conduct violation seconds before, then his ego kicked in so he made up a violation.
Exactly. Ings clearly regretted not giving McEnroe a warning for verbal abuse, so he used the delay as an excuse to give him one. Becker really controlled the pace there and played the umpire AND McEnroe. I don't see people criticizing Becker for that, but they should.
Reminds me of how unclear the picture was in the old days. I was vaguely aware of where the ball was landing with each shot.
Just like in the "You cannot be serious incident" McEnroe was absolutely right!
McEnroe was completely correct on this. And Richard Ings was a horrible umpire.
Thanks for the upload. I watched a lot more tennis years ago with different styles of play and personalities. Too many rallies and hugging now.
exact my opinion ! It' so boring today!
I don’t understand why people find rallying boring. I don’t think you guys have a smart enough understanding of tennis
McEnroe was always 1000% right when he made outbursts.
That's why he considered these incidents such injustices: because not only did he know he was right, he was so obviously and clearly right everyone in the entire venue knew it too.
There were plenty of calls against him, even bad calls, that he didn't make any outburst about. He only called out injustices when they were truly egregious and deserving of it. Good for him standing up for what's right.
He was literally standing there at the line ready to play. Ings clearly made a bad call motivated more by "standing up to McEnroe" than calling the game properly.
I only speak for this episode, he was intentionally delaying the game. Ings was on point.
Disagree, and its Becker's right to start serving, to start the point. Everyone who knows about Boris Becker, knows about his ritual before he serves, which John is right, is about ten seconds.
Had Boris done that, and McEnroe was looking another direction, THEN there could be a legit argument made that John was delaying. Instead, Boris was doing this dramatic schtick, of looking behind him, then forward, then behind, looking for John to acknowledge him that hes ready.
You can say John was a lil rude for not sticking his racquet up, to signal hes ready, but he doesnt HAVE to do that to prove hes ready for the serve.
Instead of Hollywooding it, Becker should have went into his routine, and McEnroe would have played the point. Simple as that.
Regardless of all of this, I think the way it looked, and how John stated his side, I think Ings should have been able to admit he was wrong, and waived the penalty.
Well said and you too are exactly right.👍🏻
Sure, but his anger helped derail his career.
He was absolutely right imho..
Which tournament was this?
Richard went on to become a very good tv commentator for EuroSport, I believe 🤔
Did Mac end up losing this match?!
McEnroe: "i'd like to see your manager"
Gloria a te John 🥂
Mac is 100% correct...Johnny Mac never did suffer fools.
Disgusting when refs/umpires choose to get personally invested. It doesnt matter if john was talking smack about his family, part of the job is to be entirely impartial/ objective. Always pathetic when the ref needs his presence felt (joey crawford)
Where was this match played?
John is correct.
Mac was right, but as usual, he didn't handle the situation well. Becker showed real class when he told the officials that he does, in fact, take a long time to prepare his serve. He was defending Mac. They should've listened to Becker, but it seems officials are almost always intransigent about their calls.
You can say whatever you want, but McEnroe was right. (as he most often was). With today's modern technology he would have won most tournaments he played in. one of a kind
The good ol days of tennis. Was way better back then. LoL!
@@kk7420 Get a life buddy.
Johnny had a temper but 9/10 times hes right
When you get the long angle, you can obviously see he's ready to go and Becker is stalling. He's shrugging his fucking shoulders saying LET'S FUCKING GO!
I like the longer rallies, i'm no serve & volley fan at all, but agree about the hugging! Let them fight lol
It's so satisfying to see McEnroe destroy these technocrats
Was McEnroe ever actually wrong? Every clip I've seen, I agreed with him.
Why he is a good commentator
In his autobiography he asks did I get angry with officials because I had such high standards myself and I expected them to be at the same standard? No! I was just an asshole.
I was wondering the same thing. That would be the first question I'd ask him if I ever met him.
I mean he was wrong for the very first ball here.
I've read somewhere that analysis was done on the old match videos of his games, and the calls he argued about were proven as him being in the right. I've looked for where I read that at and for the life of me I can't find the source. So if anyone else has heard this too, if you have a source please share. Thanks.
McEnroe makes a fair point here and yet the idiots just want to boo hiss and whistle at him??
in a way, whatever McEnroe is doing, Becker has to serve.
Imagine being the guy playing McEnroe lol
What a big breaker of baloons that was John...LOL
Legend
I like John McEnroe now, and I can appreciate his determination and dedication to winning. He was a perfectionist and I think sometimes his outburst was a reaction to some error that he himself made, but he also acted like a spoiled brat and on too many occasions where I watched him play, he spoiled what could have been a very good match... I think he had a tendency of digging himself into a hole...
They have done a scientific study, and believe it or not, it came up that he was correct 95% of the time
@@achach5055 bullshit
McEnroe's father was a New York corporate lawyer, right?
Chip off the old block?
This is classic mac
Ahhh how I miss the good old days
Entertaining! Mac feels disturbed in his concentration with Becker's serve preparation. A bit petty-minded but the friction and the clash with the referees helped him psychologically. Part of his game.
We need more John McEnroes
the best !
and most of the cases is right.
Jmac was fkn hilarious.😁
The Karen of tennis! XD "I'd like your supervisor brought out..." (JK btw) He is an absolute legend and was right in most of his calls.
Mac would make a good lawyer. Mac is only exposing the weaknesses (gray areas) in the rules of the game of tennis. Instead of learning to improve the rules with the help of Mac, they go against Mac and any change to the rules like a bible. This happens everywhere, not just on the tennis court.
He was an artist with his (wooden) racquet and equally sharp mind. He was correct more times than not and assertive about it when most of us would just concede that you “can’t fight city hall”.
Maybe taking it too far at times- ok definitely- I still admire him.
hell that was like watching noddy and big ears falling out. Then mr roly poly man joins in ....
Legend yes. Legendary child, yes.
Complete horses ass.
John KarEnroe:
I want to see the manager.
Which of these two players is now in prison?
Why didn’t Becker serve it? McEnroe was standing there ready
"I want the supervisor"
Ok Karen.... Haha
I have changed my opinion, in regard to my previously-posted comment, about the controversial moment in the McEnroe versus Becker Paris Indoor match. McEnroe was absolutely right in his argument with chair umpire Richard Ings that Becker after bouncing the ball and then looking up, proceeds to take about 10 seconds longer before striking the ball on his serve, so McEnroe as he correctly argued, had plenty of time to bend down into position to receive serve! He rightly argued with Ings that why should he (McEnroe) have to bend down while Becker takes time going through his service preparation ritual!? There is nothing in the rules of tennis that states that the service returner has to be standing in a bent-down position throughout the server's pre-serve preparation ritual! It can, however, be rightly argued that it was not the usual thing for McEnroe to stand straight up awaiting his opponent's serve like he did at that controversial moment in the match in the 1989 Paris Indoor match against Becker, and that, therefore, Becker could rightly assume that McEnroe was not ready to receive serve.
It appears the umpire missed the opportunity to call JM on misconduct and then decided to “find” something else
This is good shit....tennis needs more players like John...it’s so boring now maybe even some biff....more rackets smashed and maybe a all in brawl with the crowd......
Brilliant.