Ingmar Bergman

John McEnroe , born the February 16th 1959 with Wiesbaden (Germany), domiciled with New York. Cut 1 meter 80. American tennis player . A little brother Edward McEnroe, a Altor nephew fine tennis player and a niece Eddie professional player of golf

Left-handed, it dominated tennis at the beginning of the Années 1980. Its most serious adversaries were Björn Borg, Jimmy Connors and Ivan Lendl.

Its style of play was mainly turned towards the attack, in particular the service-flight . Its technique, based on a great saving in gesture, its touch of ball, and its glance make of it a single player in the history of tennis. Certain specialists in tennis do not hesitate to use the term of " génie" such an amount of the technique McEnroe was impressed permanent inventiveness and simplicity.

Victories

Its technique of left-handed person enabled him to gain 98 titles into simple (of which 761 recorded by the ATP) including 7 tournaments of the Grand Slam, but never that of Roland-Garros (beaten by Lendl in 1984 in a terrible final where McEnroe led 2 sets to zero); the ground courts beaten of Roland-Garros more support the basic players of short the attackers.

As for the Open of Australia, at the time it took place at the end of the year and the large players disputed it only if the Large slam were realizable. Until 1987, this tournament disputed at the stage of Kooyong, on courts in grass. McEnroe did not take part in it regularly, its best performance being a semi-final, in 1983, lost against Wilander.

John McEnroe was also an extremely frightening player in double, especially with his partner of predilection Peter Fleming (58 tournaments gained together). Its prize list on the whole in this competition is extremely eulogistic with 79 titles including 9 in Grand Slam, which places it in 2nd position of all times behind inaccessible the Todd Woodbridge (83). One would not have to forget either its 7 victories of sharpened with the Masters always with Peter Fleming (1978-1984 absolute records) of a title in mixed double with Roland-Garros (with Mary Carillo) in 1977. On the whole, it gained 178 tournaments all competitions confused, plus 5 Coupe Davis (1978-1979-1981-1982-1992) and also 2 World TEAM Cup (World cup by teams in 1984 and 1985). In addition, it achieved the series of 82 victories for only 3 defeats in one season (1984). Neither Ivan Lendl, nor Roger Federer who approached this record, did better.

Lastly, it was N°1 Mondial into simple during 170 weeks, nonconsecutive, between 1980 and 1985, year when it began its slow decline. To note, that he is to date the only player to have reached the first world place into simple and double during the same season, it was in 1984.

1 the ATP entered 2 times wrongly the tournament of Wembley 1978 by recording " London" + " Wembley"

Personality

It is famous for its bad character: it was able to him frequently to be put in anger against the referees or the line judges at the time of its matches. Described like a perfectionist mad by the American journalist Richard Evans, McEnroe did not support the failure. He acknowledged one day to dream of a match where he would not make any error. It is still not known today if its eternal discussions with the referee concerned the insane desire to gain all the points, the bad faith, or quite simply what its glance out it common made him judge the ball better than the professionals of the arbitration. This strong personality sometimes was worth to him to be excluded, as with the Open of Australia 1990 at the time of sound 1/8e of finale against Mikael Pernfors.

Later career

After its retirement of the courts, he became commentator of tennis for American television on chain CBS, but also opened an art gallery to New York.

He turned in a publicity for a make of car where, being made charge to be badly parked in a place, on the agent “She shouts is on the line!” , as at the time of its matches of tennis.

He also played in several films of American comedies, in particular in " mister deeds" and " anger management" with Adam Sandler, where it incarnates his own character with autodérision.

He also played his own part in televised series CSI New York (season 3 episode 23), where he is the main suspect of one of the murders.

2006

John McEnroe makes his return on the male professional circuit in double. With its Swedish partner Jonas Björkman, it gained the tournament of San Jose.

Prize list in Large Slam into Simple:

Victories: (7)

Finales: (4)

Detail of its performances in Large Slam and with Masters:

Prize list in Large Slam in Double:

Victories: (9)

Finales: (3)

Prize list in Large Slam in Mixed Double:

Victoire: (1)

Other Results in the Great Tournaments:

Gained tournaments: 98

Titles into Simple: 77 (76 listed by the Web site of the ATP and *1 appearing in the ATP Player' S Guides)

Titles not listed by the Web site of the ATP: 12 (Tournament of 8-Players and more)

Titles not listed by the Web site of the ATP: 9 (Tournaments on invitation with 4-Players)

Lost finales: 32 (31 listed by the Web site of the ATP and *1 appearing in the ATP Player' S Guides)

  • 1 Final stopped to 4-1 with the 2ère set and not taken again following the bad weather (rain).

Lost finales not listed by the Web site of the ATP: 16

Titles in Double: 79 (70 listed by the Web site of the ATP, *9 observers in the ATP Player' S Guides and ** 1 be reproduced on the Web site of the ATP but not in Player' S Guide)

Lost finales: 24 (22 listed by the Web site of the ATP and *2 observers in the ATP Player' S Guide)

Sources for this section

  • John Barrett editor, World off Yearbooks Tennis, London of 1976 to 1983.

  • Michel Sutter, Victorious Winners 1946-2003. Michel Sutter, initially tried to count all the International Tournaments of 1946 with the autumn 1991. For each tournament, it indicated the city, the date of the finale, the winner, the finalist and the score of the finale. A tournament is included in the list if: (1) the table includes/understands at least 8 players with some exceptions near like the tournaments Pepsi Grand Slam of second half of the years 1970; and (2) the level of the tournament was at least equal to that of the tournaments challenger of now. The book of Michel Sutter is probably the most exhaustive source since the second world war, even if some professional tournaments of the period preceding the Open era are not recorded. Thereafter Michel Sutter published an 2nd edition, with for only indications, the players, their victories and the years corresponding over the period 1946 - April 27th, 2003.

Catalog of films

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Two books were devoted to him, Thomas A. Ravier, " The McEnroe" scandal; , appeared at Gallimard, in the collection of Philippe Sollers, the Infinite one. http://www.lelitteraire.com/article2664.html And is MacEnroe brilliant? by Fabrice de Raissac and Christophe Roger-Vasselin ----

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