John McEnroe's 7 Grand Slam Championship Points
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John McEnroe was known for his shot-making artistry and serve-and-volley skills, as well as his confrontational on-court behaviour that frequently landed him in trouble with umpires and tennis authorities. - Спорт
John McEnroe was a tennis wizard. His racket his wand. You won't see his like ever again. Bloody shame.
WTF are you talking about soccer for? Go and crawl back under that rock you appeared from.
The last male player to ever be number 1 in singles and doubles. Uniquely gifted
Wrong,Stefan Edberg achieved the world nr 1 in both singles & doubles after McEnroe.
MUFC remember when I asked? Yeah me neither
@@suatkayatennis True true but not nearly as long though.
@@KingCast65 yes but still an achievement 🙂
@@suatkayatennis Oh yah. He's my fave old-modern player behind Mac.
McEnroe was a ballerina on court. His flow into a stroke was magical to watch. Racquet in position with feet still moving was balletic.
I had the privilege to watch him playing live in Milan during the 1990 ATP tournament. What can I say? IMHO speaking of raw talent John is the GOAT. He was basically screwed by the evolution of tennis racquets, the new materials arrived during the first half of the eighties did much better for his opponents than for him. If Tennis in the eighties was played just with wooden racquets I think John would have had at least twice the number of the Grand Slam titles he actually won. Ciao!
Forse hai ragione. E forse no. Si è rovinato di droga, di gnocca, di Lendl, di Becker, di Wilander, di Connors, di Edberg....
Però che giocatore inarrivabile !!!!
Un saluto
VENOM e si allenava sì e no tre quarti d’ora al giorno....quando aveva voglia. Ciao!
He never made excuses for not winning more in an interview he said he couldn’t stand the French open and the Aussie heat got him to wound up and frustrated to easily
@@paddylewis6818 wow interesting about his distaste for the clay surface eh.
Amazing that McEnroe never won another Grand Slam tourney after 1984. He was only 25 and seemed to be at the top of the world.
Drugs?
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1394624/Drugs-and-my-doomed-marriage-by-McEnroe.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McEnroe#Final_years_on_the_tour
Drugs and Tatum O'Neal.
Same thing with Mats,who was 24 in 1988,having won 7 Slams and being number 1,he was playing mediocre since and retired early,while Mac played some great tennis at the end of his career
Mc Enroe was boosted by presence of Borg. when this one disappeared from the courts, Ma c was not really the same. He admitted himself a few years later.
He destroyed his body and mind with coke. He was physically weak, and he couldn't control his temper.
84! What a year!
so so so so sooooooo so close to winning the French, too.
In 1984, McEnroe's win-loss tally was 82-3. The best winning tally since 1968, the beginning of the Open Era in tennis.
McEnroe is the most talented player to ever step out on a court. Not the most successful, not the most powerful, and not the most complete. But the most talented.
The Mozart of tennis, with a touch of the ball that sometimes almost defied the laws of physics.
His elegance at the net will probably never be seen again.
Tennis is another game today.
Unlike today when you have only 2 players competing for a championship every year (occasionally Federer. And Murray and wawrinka when they were healthy). There were SO many good players playing back in the day
Also the difference between surfaces was much greater then.
@@th8257 agree..
A great 5 yr run including being the best doubles player ever..but very little from Mac after 84..one final in 85 and 3 semi finals at Wimbledon/ US open...he was never close to the same.
He lost his great speed that was a very underrated part of his game and technology was also changing to more powerful rackets making it hard for his magic to work...still a great career and top 5 to 8 all time player.
he said that later on he was overpowered by some of the players(esp. Lendl and Becker).
Never seen anyone play like that ever..the reason most kids from my middle class neighborhood in the early to mid 80s started playing tennis. Before we stuck w baseball, basketball and football. He made it cool to play tennis. Miss his matches w Borg and Lendl
@@jeffreybeshears8211 oh ya..Connors mc was a vicious rivalry..Google that
I think the new tech might not have fit with his style too. Notice how he doesn’t have that sweeping spin on forehands especially that modern players like to put on tennis balls, instead favoring a more flat return. Could it be that the lack of top spin meant less control? I mean, if I look at how I play, top spin helps me put that arch on the ball to keep it in the court when I’m hitting up. I don’t know, I’m just guessing, I’m not an expert.
7 majors in 5 years Is good going . From 20 and a half in September 79 to 25 and a half in September 84
I saw all of these live, with the exception of the first one. I was already a fan at 13, and wanted Mac to win against Vitas. But somehow I missed it due to watching football I guess. Loved McEnroe.
One of the best!!
The goat when it comes to technical and volley game.
Stefan Edberg is the greatest serve and volley of all time.
@@eduardohuerta5460 Good lord. He was nowhere near McEnroe.
@@eduardohuerta5460 What about Laver and Sampras?
Eduardo Huerta no he wasn’t
OP says technical and volley, not serve and volley. The reading of the game, the touch and his wrist (like the best table-tennis players ever, Swedes will know Jan-Ove Waldner very well) were second to none.
Should be 8. Choked a bone against Lendl during the French Open
Has anyone noticed that the amount of unskippable UA-cam ads has increased as of recently? It's so bloody annoying!
Interesting, when McEnroe beat Lendl for his last major title he had won 7 and Lendl only 1 at the time. But Lendl finished with 8 majors. And there is only 1 year's age difference between the two... Mac was 25 when he stopped winning majors and I think he was really a victim of the drastic change in racquet technology at the time. McEnroe's serve and volley and touch style game was more suited to the older, wooden racquets - not for the power game that started to come into effect in the mid 1980s...
Mac lost it mentally in 1985 and never took tennis as his number priority. Of course the game moved on but in truth we’ll never know whether his best would have matched the likes of Agassi Sampras Becker Lendl and Courier. All we know for certain is that he lost a step after 1984 as Peter Fleming once said and was never the same ever since
@@sebbytennis4298 Na it was the rAquet that lead to the "mental" side of things. just like the balls now and the surfaces its made for "TV"
Boris Becker and Pat Cash were the 2 proponents of this new breed of thunderous servers.. But there were still players of finesse like Henri Leconte and Mats Wilander emerging and of course serve and volley specialist Stefan Edberg. But the new rackets did change things drastically
GREAT CHAMPION 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
The GOAT
@@martydav9475 on his day the greatest ever in my view. I would say that bring his biggest fan ever though. I play just like him too. Cant be too bad as I am through to the semis of my local tournament and sitting in the car in the rain waiting to play My next opponent.
LOL!!!
MCENROE THE GOAT
🤣🤣🤣. That’s so stupid
@@pedropelaez mcenroe the best
The GOAT for me also! Just an exquisite player. His emotions sometimes got the best of him, but it made him all the more exciting to watch. No player since has had me consistently on the edge of my seat the way John did. Often volatile, *always* thrilling.
I don't think we'll ever see a multiple Grand slam winner with a technique as unorthodox as McEnroe.
stan?
Nadal
Medvedev
Artist with a racket..
Genius
Kifinov 12 lol call us when he wins his first grand slam
The best
Didn't make a single first serve on championship point. Interesting...
I was just about to make that same comment!
Interesting, or irrelevant? He still won the points!
all into the net too.
His famous line "you're only as good as your second serve" was pure gold, wasn't it? Ciao!
He had the best second serve of his time, so no surprise there.
The wooden era 🎾
Mac is still my favourite ever. Well, there's Federer the GOAT and now Kyrgios these days, but my heart is with Mac. He should have had 15 slams but got side tracked with family obligations.
True. I also think the changes in equipment (rackets) hurt McEnroe. He was such a "touch" player. The power generated by the new rackets hurt the serve and volley players. When an average player can hit a bullet back while returning serve it takes away coming to the net. Backed up by the fact that there are no serve and volley players anymore. Everyone just stays back and blasts away. Not near as entertaining or requires the skill in my opinion.
@@IAAP. the equipment's changed helped his game. He was unplayable in 1983 all of 84 and the beginning of 1985 using the Dunlop G200.
@@MrBjorn6 I didn't say it hurt his game. I said the new rackets and the power they generated hurt McEnroe and the serve and volley players as stated by the reasons I cited above. McEnroe was still a great player but the style he played along with other serve and volley players was not as effective as before. And eventually has been phased out. Sampras was the lone exception but his game revolved around a dominant serve far more than volleying and ground strokes.
@@IAAP. Sampras was a powerful baseline player who happened to play S&V, he wasn't a natural s&v like McEnroe, Edberg or Rafter.
Kyrgios? LOL!!!
Goat
Now all of the doubles grand slam points. More than any other grand slam champion. 💪
7 slam titles in 5 years is pretty impressive, though a bit shocking he didn't win anymore between 85-90.
Thanks for this but you should have included his championship wins in the doubles too.
McEnroe should have 10 majors!
If the racket revolution of the 1980s had never occurred, we would probably be talking about McEnroe´s 15+ major titles..
And if he played the Australian, 20 majors.
The prior two replies bring up good points. However, in history, many things occur. But I will tell you... had the racket technology stayed with wood and steel for 5 more years, Mac would have won 4 more Majors. And Jimmy would have won one more as well. But that is how things went. So we simply appreciate what we got and argue over what might have happened. All I know is.....this was awesome.
@@fundhund62 You're high as a fucking kite if you think he could have pounded back an extra 7 Wimby/US Open titles.
156 titles for Mac. As close to unbreakable as any record.
Fun fact: McEnroe's first serve percentage on Grand Slam championship points = 0%.
that means he won all of the 2nd serve points.
could win 3 more playing in Australia in earlier days
John Mac. The single best player of all time in my opinion.
Alain Connelly
This is so far from the truth it hurts.
@@IzakD8 I'm glad he hurt you.
Mac est le plus grand joueur de tout les temps
Exact
Et de loin
With the electronic line calls, where would he be today?
First serve!!
McEnroe, Borg, and Connors were three giants of that era. We need that today, especially on the American side.
I became a tennis fan and player as a kid because of those three giants.
right. Borg - MaCEnroe wimbledon 1980 is the REAL birth of tennis.
1st serve % on match points 😂
MCENROE THE BEST
I like that the trophy in the thumbnail is not a grand slam trophy
i would like to see laver's slams, but unfortunately that's impossible... or maybe you can put photos instead videos :)
Some footage of Laver playing is available on UA-cam. Like this one ua-cam.com/video/CwbUQcj9CwI/v-deo.html
I saw that, but that's just 1969. :/
That passing shot against Lendl doesn't look that devastating !
R I p vitas gerulitas
Yes I noticed no first served in on any one
It's kind of hard to believe that John won "only" 7 Grand Slam Finals. That's a lot, but given his amazing skills, especially at the net, would seem he could win more. But playing against Borg, Connors, and Lendl, among others, can understand.
Only 7 slams,.that's a lot of slams until Pete Sampras, the came Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic, they are not normal they are exceptional. However he did win 77 tournament and 78 doubles tournaments. We judge a man by his entire resume until Sampras when we began to only count slams.
I was a Borg fan, so I hated McEnroe. Until I met him at the BJK Center in 1981. He was really nice to kids and very fun person.
Could have won more GS probably, if he played the AO earlier in his career.
2nd serve really does the job lol.
He hated the clay and said that the Aussie heat made him too angry to concentrate
I was rooting for Vitas, Bjorn, Chris, Jimmy, and Ivan.
With his talent he should have won 25 majors
Chris who?
McEnroe la diagonala
It was McEnroe who knocked the great Bjorn Borg out of tennis. Borg knew after he lost to McEnroe at Wimbledon in 81, he was being surpassed.
Jose Hill us open 81
He really destroyed Conners
D. Scott connors
The giant Dough Boy of women's tennis, Lindsey Davenport now has the audacity do commentary on men's tennis, criticizing the likes of Alex Zverev after saying that men's tennis is so boring that she could not sit through a five set match. Imagine if John McEnroe ever said anything even close to that about women's tennis. Do you really think he would have a job as a commentator, anywhere, ever again, much less commentating on women's tennis?! Madison Keys rightly fired Lindsey because she couldn't even show for Madison's matches. Madison deserves better, and now she has better.The giant Dough Boy of women's tennis, Lindsey Davenport now has the audacity do commentary on men's tennis, criticizing the likes of Alex Zverev after saying that men's tennis is so boring that she could not sit through a five set match. Imagine if John McEnroe ever said anything even close to that about women's tennis. Do you really think he would have a job as a commentator, anywhere, ever again, much less commentating on women's tennis?! Madison Keys rightly fired Lindsey because she couldn't even show up for Madison's matches. Madison deserves better, and now she has better.
His serves were weird.
minh vu I think they were initially the result of an injury, but they disguised the direction of the serve so it became an advantage.
That's exactly what makes him unique!!!! Personally I love his serve very much.
Yes, weird in the sense that they were very unconventional. But very effective. You can't copy that kind of serve!
His serves were simply the most beautiful ones ever
When I think about tennis serve, his and Sampras' immediatly come to mind.
He won 8 GS's
what were the 8?
SinkHollyWood name them
I think he lost his wife and his his game too after 1984.
Very short career...with 24-25 years he couldnt even win one more GS...Sad but real
Career wasn't over tho. Made the semi's of Wimbledon 92 and beat Becker one year in early 90s Australian. Winning at the top yes sure, what people remember most I guess (but maybe he knew it was sliding away when he was beaten by Brad Gilbert indoors in 85? Mentioned in his book he knew something was seriously wrong when he lost to him)
With only seven slams and no French or Australian wins he was an underachiever
Only 7 slams?; very difficult to win even one. Mac ruled late early to mid 80s. Monster at doubles as well.
ボルグはどうしても全米OPが勝てずレンドルはウィンブルドンが・・・両者の違いはボルグは「全米は大嫌いだ」レンドルは「他のタイトル全部と交換しても欲しい」
This was back when you could win titles while having a major liability. McEnroe's backhand (when not slicing it) was a disgrace. No way could you win in today's game if one of your shots was that bad
You know nothing of that sport
try and generate any type of power with an old school wood racquet. doesn't matter at all how good you are there were limitations. you don't think he wished he used a carbon fiber or whatever is used today.
wrong. He could rip it when the point dictated. You know nothing.
Mac had no weaknesses he could do anything with the ball from anywhere in the court, his only weakness was his focus and this even at his very best in 1984
Embarrassing comment
Lendl won 8, Mac won 7, so Lendl > McEnroe. :)
Mcenroe was No. 1 in singles and No. 1 in doubles. More than 140 titles combined. Lendl is one of the greatest, but Mac is a little bigger than him.
Emerson won 12, Laver won 11, so Emerson > Laver?
@@SonateSonate Yes. It's just an arbitrary metric though, but it's simple, on spot and avoids all these what-if scenarios which only lead to endless discussions.
Rod Laver won 8 Pro Slams but Roy Emerson won only 12 major titles.
Sad part is McEnroe choked a lot. He should have at least 2 more Wimbledon's, 1 US Open, 2 French and he never showed up in Australia. If he would have he would of won one in the early 80's.
Of all those tournaments you just cited, which were the years he should have won them?
Simple 80,82 Wimb. 85 US, 84,85 French, Aust 80,81,82 he never even showed up.
@@drackkor725 ok, W 80 he was barely 21 and lost to the world no. 1 on arguably his best day. I'm also pretty sure he wasn't favored.
W 82: he didn't play well the entire year (as often happens after reaching no. 1). Also JC had just beaten him on grass at Queens 3 weeks earlier.
US 85, he had nothing left after going 5 sets vs. Wilander on a very hot saturday the day before. *plus Lendl was pretty good.
FO 84/85 He lost to better clay court players. plus he never paid his dues on red clay, e.g., skipped FO 81, prepared for FO by playing Forest Hills, etc.
AO 80-82 agreed.
Not here to debate he choked that's all you can make excuses for him all day long and go to your comfort zone. Good Bye.
@@drackkor725 "Not here to debate...go to your comfort zone. Good Bye." *irony
he was and still very unlikable
Still the ugliest serve I’ve ever seen
So is your last name