efin98
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You're a little boy with no idea what he's talking about. McEnroe was a former #1 ranked player with 7 singles grand slams and 9 doubles grand slams. Hardly a stretch to call him an all time great.
There are lots of other examples of star athletes in other sports, who acted like complete arses and sore losers. Our own Patriots QB was known as being one of the biggest sore losers while as a youth and teen.
He was fourth among his greatest peers during his career. Borg, Lendl, and Connors all had better career stats than McEnroe.
Talking about #1 rankings is futile when the guy he was frequently wrestling for the top ranking set the record for the longest ranking at #1 in the world: Jimmy Connors. After Connors retired Ivan Lendl took up the wrestling for the top spot from McEnroe and was at #1 almost as long as Connors- a full 100 weeks AHEAD of McEnroe at the top spot.
Take a closer look at the cited stats: Borg had 11 grand slams, Connors and Lendl eight. McEnroe had seven
Borg had 100 titles(in 10 years, shortest of the all time greats), Connors 147, and Lendl 144. McEnroe had 99 in the longest career of all of them :rolleys:
He's hard to call the best of his time by anyone when things all point to someone else being the best. If not for the '81 blowup at Wimbledon he would have been just another great always taking a back seat to the other greats of his time who did better than him.
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