Davis Cup. With family taking center stage, McEnroe took a sabbatical in His return, however, continued to be plagued by misbehavior. In , McEnroe was disqualified from the Australian Open for unsportsmanlike conduct. He continued to impress as a Davis Cup player, but by , McEnroe sought a change. In , the tennis star was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. McEnroe won a total of seven Grand Slam singles : Wimbledon in , , and as well as the US Open in , , , and One mixed-double and nine doubles tournaments were won by McEnroe.
McEnroe was unable to add to his Grand Slam collection in , but he was back in top form the following year, winning his second Wimbledon by crushing Chris Lewis , , He captured his third Wimbledon title, soundly defeating Connors , , , and his fourth U.
Open title, beating Ivan Lendl , , , and finished with the No. Although McEnroe won eight singles titles in , none of them were Grand Slam events. He took a six-month sabbatical in , and stepped away for several months again after drawing a suspension for an outburst in McEnroe remained a highly competitive doubles player, winning the U. Open in and Wimbledon in , but he struggled to keep pace with the successive generation of talent in singles play.
He was also famously disqualified for misconduct from the Australian Open in Melbourne in a match against Mikael Pernfors. McEnroe called it quits in , retiring with seven career Grand Slam singles championships, nine doubles titles and one more in mixed doubles, along with a host of Davis Cup wins.
He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in In , McEnroe began a second career as a television broadcaster and continued to occasionally compete on the court for charity, devoting a good amount of time to the Arthur Ashe Foundation for the defeat of AIDS. McEnroe is also a guitar player, having performed live via bands such as the Package and the Noise Upstairs.
After hosting a game show called The Chair in , McEnroe debuted his eponymous talk show on CNBC in , though the show was canceled six months later due to poor viewership. McEnroe has made numerous appearances on TV and film over the years. He surfaced in the Adam Sandler movies Mr. Deeds and Anger Management , as well as in multiple episodes of the hit show 30 Rock. They had three children together before divorcing in We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us!
Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives. By the end of that year, he was ranked sixth in the world in singles and fifth in doubles.
It was during this time that McEnroe began his long commitment to Davis Cup play earlier seeds may have been planted by Palafox and Hop's involvement in the Davis Cup. Tony Trabert, then Davis Cup coach, took a risk with the year-old McEnroe, who handled the pressure well, winning his matches against England to help clinch the first U.
Davis Cup victory in six years. In the next four months, McEnroe won four singles championships, including an important and portentous victory over Bjorn Borg on his home turf in Stockholm, Sweden. In his first six months as a pro, he earned nearly half a million dollars. After decisive victories over both Connors and Borg in , McEnroe's playing style matured.
It was an interesting contrast to the machine-gun like attacks of Connors and Borg. Like his idol, Rod Laver, McEnroe used finesse to keep his opponents off guard. His serve did not overpower, but he had extremely quick reflexes and an uncanny court sense—he seemed to know instinctively where to place his shots.
Arthur Ashe, the late tennis champion, summed up his style in an interview with Sports Illustrated's Curry Kirkpatrick, "Against Connors and Borg, you feel like your being hit with a sledge hammer, but McEnroe is a stiletto. As his talent came to public attention, so did his "superstar" personality. At no tournament did his comments and disruptive actions stand out more than they did at Wimbledon, which was run by the traditional All England Club.
Whether there was any truth to his claims or not, McEnroe believed that the Wimbledon umpires were out to get him. There is a theory that these disruptions were beneficial to McEnroe. Needless to say, the All England Club and the British fans were happy to see McEnroe lose in the fourth round at the Wimbledon tournament. McEnroe became the youngest player to win the U. Open since Shortly after his U. Open triumph, he led the U. Davis Cup team to victory over Argentina, Australia, and Italy to allow the team to retain the cup.
In , one of tennis' most notorious rivalries between McEnroe and the unflappable Swede, Bjorn Borg, took shape. It began in July of that year at the Wimbledon finals. Although Borg started the first set erratically, the remaining four sets saw both players in top form. The highlight of the match took place in the fourth set which went into a tie breaker.
It took 22 minutes and 34 points for McEnroe to finally win the set. But Borg emerged victorious , , , , It was Borg's fifth consecutive Wimbledon title, but it also showed the world that McEnroe had the stamina and mental toughness to be a top player.
The rivals met again at the U. In a match with as many games as their famous Wimbledon final, McEnroe emerged the winner , , , , McEnroe then set his sights on Wimbeldon. The Wimbledon tournament saw McEnroe and Borg once again in the final. This time McEnroe ended Borg's five year reign as he won in four sets , , , That same year, in September, McEnroe defended his U.
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