![]() ![]() ![]() McEnroe, who will again be part of the BBC commentary team at Wimbledon this year, recognises that it is easy to offer opinions from the sidelines, but he believes Murray hurts only himself when he launches into one of his outbursts. "If you watch a guy go out on court and have a meltdown, you're not going to think: 'Oh my God, now I'm screwed.' Or you're not going to think: 'The umpire's going to give him calls because he's just told him he's an idiot or the pits of the world.' It's true that my opponents did sometimes have to wait, but is it unbelievably difficult to wait a minute instead of 20 seconds? I don't buy that argument." So how could that be gamesmanship if you're out there self-destructing? You could make the argument that I was lucky that I wasn't defaulted. After the match he would say: 'John, did you say what I thought you said?' And I would say: 'No, there was someone up in the stands'." I'd be yelling at him: 'I'm out here laying it on the line and you're sitting there?' I'd be all upset, yelling at him and in some cases, dare I say it, cursing at him. ![]() McEnroe Jnr said: "I would get so worked up. Even John McEnroe Snr, who was usually calmness personified on court, would find himself the object of his son's tirades. ![]()
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