No matter who else comes along, there will never be another player like McEnroe. When he got to the net, I was on the edge of my seat! Astonishing reflexes.
John McEnroe is quite probably the most talented singles player of all time. If he had more natural power (or the game had mandated always playing with wooden rackets), he could very well have been the greatest singles player of all time. Having said that, I think there is no question that he is the greatest doubles player of all time.
possibly the greatest davis cup team ever assembled. 5 hall of famers, 34 grand slam singles titles and over 500 weeks at 1. I remember watching that Davis Cup match. Mcenroe owned the court!
If you wanted to see Tennis in its most beautiful and creative form you should have seen prime John McEnroe play doubles, it’s never been better demonstrated.. he’s past his best in this video but still magnificent, in the mid 80’s with Peter Fleming he was peerless.
wow jim courier, andre agassi, john mcenroe, pete sampras, and along with a talented player like todd martin the 1992 US Davis cup team had to be the best davis cup team of all time, the 80s and 90s were truly the golden age of american tennis
Maybe the greatest Davis Cup team ever assembled. And sorry Bob and Mike, McEnroe is the greatest doubles player of all time followed by Martina. Amazing that Mac is hitting his forehand with a continental grip - insane. McEnroe and Stich are probably the most talented doubles tandem ever assembled.
Like watching God play a tennis match. Perfect footwork, shotmaking and the touch on his volleys. Don't try to tell me that Djokovic or Nadal could handle Johnny Mac in his prime. The greatest doubles player ever in tennis.
I know RIGHT? If ALL THINGS WERE EQUAL? (racquet-tech, REAL grass...REAL FAST surface like the Aussie Open & Wimbledon have been made FASTER since 2016)......? Djokivic would NEVER MAKE 3 ROUNDS AT WIMBLEDON OR THE US.OPEN...Neither would Rafa...and I LOVE rafa........
That's why it was an UNHEARD OF MIRACLE....when Andre won Wimbledon...(against the BEST OVERALL LEFTY SERVER OF ALL TIME....above even Sampras in serve).........against Ivanisevic....we all KNEW that he and he alone was the ONLY person who would ever win lifetime Grand Slam..........THATS HOW different the surfaces were.....THATS HOW SPECIAL it was........
ITS A DISGRACE that Novak & Rafa (whom I love both).......can have a lifetime slam....when Pete Sampras does not........they sloooooowed everything down, (including FIXING-RIGGING 2017Us Open)....to favor Nike-Addidas Players....so we can al watch UNWATCHABLE Marathon tennis where 1 point out of 100 has a clean exciting winner....versus everything being BORG-VILAS (love em both also)......waaaaaiting ofr someone to get TIRED
@@jamesb2871 that is why Agassi is the one and only 4 GS Champions with a real extreme different surfaces..... And even his achievement is unlikely to be recognized...it Will also never be done in the future with the speed of all surfaces relatively the same..
Djokovic and Nadal would not be able to play peak McEnroe with wooden racquets on fast grass. They wouldn't have a prayer. And the game would be so much better for it. That's my sentimental contribution for the night.
I remember that Davis cup match, man it was intense the first 4 sets....there were many great shots, but I remember the young Sampras opening up some killer forehands down the line that really supported McEnroe's all court genius in this particular match....great team!
McEnroe is like a god to modern day tennis players. And with good reason. The only true genius in tennis. His half volleys are better than most tennis player's volleys. His footwork is perfect. Outside of Federer, I don't know any other player that moves like McEnroe. His shotmaking and volleying are incomparable. Don't forget he had the greatest single season in men's tennis history 84-3.
Don't agree totally: Sampras' volley game and footwork were better than Fed's. That's why Fed, especially the early years, didn't come as often to the net.
davis cup 1992 between USA and Switzerland was the first tennis torunament i've seen on TV..........i was just 8 yrs old.............USA's team: Single 1, Courier; single 2, Agassi..Doubles: mc enroe and sampras.....
@@37valerio Hi Valerio ! Do you have the match Edberg vs Forget at Paris Open 1992 ? I knew it was a fantastic match to see. If you have it , could you post it please or send the video to me perhaps ? Thanks a lot !
I have been an avid watcher (and hacker) of tennis since about the first year of open tennis in 1968. Like McEnroe, my hero was Rod Laver, but I admired most of the other Aussies as well for the determination, drive and sportsmanship they brought to the court. In that light, I found McEnroe, too often, to be a jerk, mostly on the court but sometimes off as well. Still, he is the only true tennis genius I have ever seen, and all the modern players are included in that statement as well.
@@paqumike "Genius: a person who is exceptionally intelligent or creative, either generally or in some particular respect: 'one of the great musical geniuses of the 20th century'" So let's just say "tennis geniuses". If tennis be the music of life, play on.....
mcenroe was fantastic at the SAP Open in '06 when he won w/ Jonas Bjorkman (mac was 47) wish i had seen more of mac's matches w/ woodforde in '88/'89 (or even w/ agassi/edberg later on, which i never saw)
@ibwangin that shit started in the mid-90s, i guess, prob came from volleyball where partners slap hands on EVERY shot, even missed ones... that has spread to tennis now also, back then players would shake hands the traditional way (not the hand clasp) and wore shorts that were short... and camera work wasnt so ball-focused like now that u cant even see the fucking player half the time on replays
@mephatboi Communicating between points has become more common place nowadays in Doubles. It probably has nothing to do with volleyball. It's just that the game of tennis has modernized as have other sports.
If the genius had been properly trained as Borg,Connors or Lendl achieving greater resistance and continuity for his attacking game very agile (especially at the net) and,therefore, in the long run much more expensive than normal, he would have won the double of what won
@@37valerio It's widely known that McEnroe preferred to play and play too much rather than train. In the most important tournaments he reached the final in both singles and doubles. Several defeats are attributable to this not sensible and prudent behavior. Many believe that he was worn out too soon both by the advent of fiber racquets which greatly increased the speed of exchanges and favored power more than technique so his exceptional, never seen, mastery and sensitivity of the wrist was no longer enough to attack furiously as he did with Borg and he began to be forced on the defensive but also for this presumptuous and unregulated attitude. It's also well known Billie Jean King's comment when she observed that "he did not pay the price". She meant that McEnroe had made him to the top without sacrificing himself with the hard and exhausting workouts of her and Connors.
@federerroger1991 why do you say they were not as good as the players today? because they weren't athlets? so the question we have to ask ourselves is: what did you need to have in this area to be the best in tennis? the same as today, minus to be an athlet. so what does it change?
benoit leclef No I disagree, he has not the strokes nor the number of titles on any surface to support that. Neither mental strength. That he perhaps is the greatest genius the game has ever seen that is another thing and a talent which, given todays technology from early age, might have been the best ever that is a different story.
benoit leclef Yes, I play frequently and had for years. Playing forehand and backhand like you had the upper part of your arm stuck to your body with a belt using continental grip is not the best way. He used angles well with good wrists, which were efficient against players 3 m behind the baseline but less with players that also take the ball early as most do today and hit considerably harder. Creating his own speed was not his strength, partly due to stroke limitations, more blocking his opponents shots to tricky spots on the court. And the French open choke in 84, his bleak performances vs Lendl after 84 and all his outburst during matches (vs Brad Gilbert for example), do you consider that strength? Note We are talking about "best ever single player". Unless possibly by including doubles he is not.
I don't think you really understand McEnroe's game, his arms were never "stuck to his body", it's quite ridiculous; he did not only use angles, he was creative, always, fast, extremely fast, had the best hand ever seen in tennis, played forward etc. Thinking that current players hit considerably harder is just hype. Regarding RG in 84 - one of his three defeats (unmatched record) - he took revenge the very next week in Wimbledon then on flushing. No bleak performance. Outbursting against Gilbert....So what ? Just look at his match records until end 1985; even Federer hasn't that victory rate.
Scroll up Sparky. I was correcting "You can't be serious". Sorry that you seem to struggle with reading comprehension. It's not too late to work on that. :-)
How does scrolling up have anything to do with reading comprehension? Why do comments always revert back to "reading comprehension" insults? Isn't there anything better to attack? Your comment, which looked like a stand alone comment, was unnecessarily condescending, so I felt the need to defend the helpless sap you were accosting. Have a great day.
McEnroe is the most creative player ever, not a machine that repeats all the time...a tennis man that creates on every points!
I have 520 McEnroe matchs sites.google.com/site/tennisvideoparadise/match-list
No matter who else comes along, there will never be another player like McEnroe. When he got to the net, I was on the edge of my seat! Astonishing reflexes.
John McEnroe is quite probably the most talented singles player of all time. If he had more natural power (or the game had mandated always playing with wooden rackets), he could very well have been the greatest singles player of all time.
Having said that, I think there is no question that he is the greatest doubles player of all time.
McEnroe is still playing at an incredible level of tennis at 60...the best ever...legendary!!!!
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Incredible performance, and this is when Mac was no longer at his peak.
Martina Navratilova once said it does not matter who you play doubles against as long as you play together with John McEnroe ;-)
‘’The best doubles team in the world is John McEnroe and whoever he plays with’’. Peter Fleming
@@MrPernell27 Holy shit. 13 years ago... . Thanks for bringing me back to this comment :)
Mac was an unbelievable single player, but in doubles he was by far the best ever, thx for the upload
It was Peter Fleming who said that McEnroe was basically a doubles genius who happened to excel in singles as well.
Greatest Davis Cup Team of All Time!!!!! There never will be one like that again.
possibly the greatest davis cup team ever assembled. 5 hall of famers, 34 grand slam singles titles and over 500 weeks at 1. I remember watching that Davis Cup match. Mcenroe owned the court!
John McEnroe-genius...........
Oh yea
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If you wanted to see Tennis in its most beautiful and creative form you should have seen prime John McEnroe play doubles, it’s never been better demonstrated.. he’s past his best in this video but still magnificent, in the mid 80’s with Peter Fleming he was peerless.
There would never be another John McEnroe.
wow jim courier, andre agassi, john mcenroe, pete sampras, and along with a talented player like todd martin the 1992 US Davis cup team had to be the best davis cup team of all time, the 80s and 90s were truly the golden age of american tennis
Greatest doubles player ever!
What a dream team!!! agassi, courier for the singles and mc -pete for doubles. ..todo martin and Michael chang as subs ...unrepetable
5 GS winners + Tod Martin who made multiple GS finals himself. Incredible team!
That is some serious Continental forehand action...
Happy 52nd Birthday, Mac>>>Feb.16,1959
You're still the best!
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Maybe the greatest Davis Cup team ever assembled. And sorry Bob and Mike, McEnroe is the greatest doubles player of all time followed by Martina. Amazing that Mac is hitting his forehand with a continental grip - insane. McEnroe and Stich are probably the most talented doubles tandem ever assembled.
The old saying McEnroe and anybody
He was so great at doubles that he practically carried Pete Sampras in that match when he was way past his prime. Nobody comes even close.
@@michaelgarza8271 very true
That was a great Davis Cup team. Mcenroe, Sampras, Agassi, Courier
what a team they had in 1992, Agassi, Sampras, Courier, Chang, Martin, McEnroe still great in doubles WOW
I remember this match. Took 2 sets for Sampras to wake and start contributing, but Mcenroe owned the court.
Like watching God play a tennis match. Perfect footwork, shotmaking and the touch on his volleys. Don't try to tell me that Djokovic or Nadal could handle Johnny Mac in his prime. The greatest doubles player ever in tennis.
I know RIGHT? If ALL THINGS WERE EQUAL? (racquet-tech, REAL grass...REAL FAST surface like the Aussie Open & Wimbledon have been made FASTER since 2016)......? Djokivic would NEVER MAKE 3 ROUNDS AT WIMBLEDON OR THE US.OPEN...Neither would Rafa...and I LOVE rafa........
That's why it was an UNHEARD OF MIRACLE....when Andre won Wimbledon...(against the BEST OVERALL LEFTY SERVER OF ALL TIME....above even Sampras in serve).........against Ivanisevic....we all KNEW that he and he alone was the ONLY person who would ever win lifetime Grand Slam..........THATS HOW different the surfaces were.....THATS HOW SPECIAL it was........
ITS A DISGRACE that Novak & Rafa (whom I love both).......can have a lifetime slam....when Pete Sampras does not........they sloooooowed everything down, (including FIXING-RIGGING 2017Us Open)....to favor Nike-Addidas Players....so we can al watch UNWATCHABLE Marathon tennis where 1 point out of 100 has a clean exciting winner....versus everything being BORG-VILAS (love em both also)......waaaaaiting ofr someone to get TIRED
@@jamesb2871 that is why Agassi is the one and only 4 GS Champions with a real extreme different surfaces..... And even his achievement is unlikely to be recognized...it Will also never be done in the future with the speed of all surfaces relatively the same..
Djokovic and Nadal would not be able to play peak McEnroe with wooden racquets on fast grass. They wouldn't have a prayer. And the game would be so much better for it. That's my sentimental contribution for the night.
I wish Pete had played more doubles. He would have been amazing.
I remember that Davis cup match, man it was intense the first 4 sets....there were many great shots, but I remember the young Sampras opening up some killer forehands down the line that really supported McEnroe's all court genius in this particular match....great team!
some of these McEnroe shots are just insane.
I have 520 McEnroe matches sites.google.com/site/tennisvideoparadise/match-list
Mac est le plus grand joueur de tout les temps
I have 520 McEnroe matches sites.google.com/site/tennisvideoparadise/match-list
McEnroe is like a god to modern day tennis players. And with good reason. The only true genius in tennis. His half volleys are better than most tennis player's volleys. His footwork is perfect. Outside of Federer, I don't know any other player that moves like McEnroe. His shotmaking and volleying are incomparable. Don't forget he had the greatest single season in men's tennis history 84-3.
Don't agree totally: Sampras' volley game and footwork were better than Fed's. That's why Fed, especially the early years, didn't come as often to the net.
I have 520 McEnroe matches sites.google.com/site/tennisvideoparadise/match-list
greatest doubles team of all time?
johnny mac and anybody else. ;)
davis cup 1992 between USA and Switzerland was the first tennis torunament i've seen on TV..........i was just 8 yrs old.............USA's team: Single 1, Courier; single 2, Agassi..Doubles: mc enroe and sampras.....
Agassi, Sampras, McEnroe, Courier, Todd Martin- what a team..
What a Davis team!
mcenroe and sampras together? there aint no better double!
マッケンロー、サンプラス、クーリエ、アガシ…。
正真正銘のドリームチームやな。
What a player he was. Greatest ever imo.
Lol! Not even close.
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Andre's wig is outrageous in this video.
Does Mac's doubles ability make him thus,
the greatest all around tennis player of all time?
Yes
Yes.
USA had an authentic Dream Team in 1992!!!
Agassi is sick
Mc enroe is unique and very talented!
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@@37valerio Hi Valerio ! Do you have the match Edberg vs Forget at Paris Open 1992 ? I knew it was a fantastic match to see. If you have it , could you post it please or send the video to me perhaps ? Thanks a lot !
@@monceau27 i don't remember. Check my list...
I have been an avid watcher (and hacker) of tennis since about the first year of open tennis in 1968. Like McEnroe, my hero was Rod Laver, but I admired most of the other Aussies as well for the determination, drive and sportsmanship they brought to the court. In that light, I found McEnroe, too often, to be a jerk, mostly on the court but sometimes off as well. Still, he is the only true tennis genius I have ever seen, and all the modern players are included in that statement as well.
Federer and Nadal are geniuses in every sense of the word. Djokovic is pretty inventive, too.
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@@joemarshall4226 They are great and gifted tennis players but genius? Well we disagree.
@@paqumike "Genius: a person who is exceptionally intelligent or creative, either generally or in some particular respect: 'one of the great musical geniuses of the 20th century'"
So let's just say "tennis geniuses". If tennis be the music of life, play on.....
mcenroe was fantastic at the SAP Open in '06 when he won w/ Jonas Bjorkman (mac was 47)
wish i had seen more of mac's matches w/ woodforde in '88/'89 (or even w/ agassi/edberg later on, which i never saw)
the brat...the best ever !!
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The best team!!
Todd Martin, Andre Agassi and Jim Courier. Looked as if Patrick McEnroe was there too.
very nice upload.
@ibwangin that shit started in the mid-90s, i guess, prob came from volleyball where partners slap hands on EVERY shot, even missed ones... that has spread to tennis now
also, back then players would shake hands the traditional way (not the hand clasp) and wore shorts that were short... and camera work wasnt so ball-focused like now that u cant even see the fucking player half the time on replays
not human
I have 520 McEnroe matches sites.google.com/site/tennisvideoparadise/match-list
@mephatboi Communicating between points has become more common place nowadays in Doubles. It probably has nothing to do with volleyball. It's just that the game of tennis has modernized as have other sports.
The ball hit the net, bounced into the other guy's hand, and into McEnroe's court. He already won the point, so did the same for fun.
I have 520 McEnroe matches sites.google.com/site/tennisvideoparadise/match-list
If the genius had been properly trained as Borg,Connors or Lendl achieving greater resistance and continuity for his attacking game very agile (especially at the net) and,therefore, in the long run much more expensive than normal, he would have won the double of what won
I have 520 McEnroe matches sites.google.com/site/tennisvideoparadise/match-list
@@37valerio It's widely known that McEnroe preferred to play and play too much rather than train. In the most important tournaments he reached the final in both singles and doubles. Several defeats are attributable to this not sensible and prudent behavior. Many believe that he was worn out too soon both by the advent of fiber racquets which greatly increased the speed of exchanges and favored power more than technique so his exceptional, never seen, mastery and sensitivity of the wrist was no longer enough to attack furiously as he did with Borg and he began to be forced on the defensive but also for this presumptuous and unregulated attitude. It's also well known Billie Jean King's comment when she observed that "he did not pay the price". She meant that McEnroe had made him to the top without sacrificing himself with the hard and exhausting workouts of her and Connors.
More touch and shot-making ability at both the net and baseline compared to today's players allowed Mac to dominate singles AND doubles
Didn't see it, which has nothing to do with reading comprehension. Thanks for the input..
my first tennis remember in my life...i was just 9.....who was the US' team's captain???
It was impossible that US team for Davis Cup could lose!
With Mac,Sampras,Courier and Agassi?No way!
big mac rules!!!
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mac the genius
I have 520 McEnroe matches sites.google.com/site/tennisvideoparadise/match-list
I hate his attitude but I love his tennis.
If a Davis Cup team is composed by McEnroe, Sampras, Agassi and Courier, everything else is useless
Only McEnroe could have hit that shot
Yeah, that's Patrick
Is Macie playing with Sampras?
I agree with vulcan Mac Enroe and and anybody else....
Is that blonde kid wit the the black shirt roger federer by some chance
Where has all the talent gone? Tennis used to be th US game!
All the talent had gone to Europe!
Sade Rose the middle class lost interest. Only rich people play it now!!!
2:08 what is draco malfoy doing at a tennis match
@federerroger1991
why do you say they were not as good as the players today? because they weren't athlets?
so the question we have to ask ourselves is: what did you need to have in this area to be the best in tennis? the same as today, minus to be an athlet. so what does it change?
mcenroe is not the best single player ever(unless you count ability in singles/doubles combined) but by far the best in double. Impressive!
+SuperHammaren yes he is
benoit leclef No I disagree, he has not the strokes nor the number of titles on any surface to support that. Neither mental strength. That he perhaps is the greatest genius the game has ever seen that is another thing and a talent which, given todays technology from early age, might have been the best ever that is a different story.
Not the strokes ? Do you play tennis ? Take another look...Mental strength ? Look how many tie breaks he won for instance
benoit leclef Yes, I play frequently and had for years. Playing forehand and backhand like you had the upper part of your arm stuck to your body with a belt using continental grip is not the best way. He used angles well with good wrists, which were efficient against players 3 m behind the baseline but less with players that also take the ball early as most do today and hit considerably harder. Creating his own speed was not his strength, partly due to stroke limitations, more blocking his opponents shots to tricky spots on the court. And the French open choke in 84, his bleak performances vs Lendl after 84 and all his outburst during matches (vs Brad Gilbert for example), do you consider that strength? Note We are talking about "best ever single player". Unless possibly by including doubles he is not.
I don't think you really understand McEnroe's game, his arms were never "stuck to his body", it's quite ridiculous; he did not only use angles, he was creative, always, fast, extremely fast, had the best hand ever seen in tennis, played forward etc. Thinking that current players hit considerably harder is just hype. Regarding RG in 84 - one of his three defeats (unmatched record) - he took revenge the very next week in Wimbledon then on flushing. No bleak performance. Outbursting against Gilbert....So what ? Just look at his match records until end 1985; even Federer hasn't that victory rate.
マッケンロー、国旗を背負うと人間が変わる。ちょっと意外。
@bassem008 It's you "cannot" be serious.
@SILK334 He looks like Draco Malfoy
I really want to like doubles tennis...I just can't do it....the Bryan brothers, now? Seriously?
You don´t like doubles tennis because of the Bryan twins?! That´s like saying you don´t like Rock´n Roll because of Britney Spears.
Scroll up Sparky. I was correcting "You can't be serious". Sorry that you seem to struggle with reading comprehension. It's not too late to work on that. :-)
@Nigelxman now "u can not be serious " is it why replied ... u can not be serious... U can NOT be serious
..lol ( i know hhh )
当時アメリカは強かった。現在は・・・・
@pablotjob Yeah, overpowered anyone? lol.
How does scrolling up have anything to do with reading comprehension? Why do comments always revert back to "reading comprehension" insults? Isn't there anything better to attack?
Your comment, which looked like a stand alone comment, was unnecessarily condescending, so I felt the need to defend the helpless sap you were accosting.
Have a great day.
in other words, unorthodox play style
Orthodox means boring?