Huh? McEnroe playing Sharapova?

[DNShade]

Originally Posted by Vision84

Haha Mcenroe loses to hawkeye at the end of the first video. Certainly shuts him up. Now if only they had that technology back when he was on the tour.

Well if you saw the rest of the match - you would see that he was right three or four more times all of the rest of the challenges. Having been courtside many, many times at matches over the years - Mac was usually right about the calls. He has a great eye.

And we've seen Fed argue with Hawkeye, so I'm sure John would've as well.

[Michelangelo]

"WTF McEnroe playing Sharapova"
This title makes me think they have some kinda physical relationship rather than tennis...

[coloskier]

Originally Posted by masha4ever#1

Masha is gonna win....for sure

It was really funny watching Sharapova trying to out volley McEnroe. He took her to school bigtime.

[jt1224x0]

Originally Posted by tennispro11

....LOL! You Cannot Be Serious! No way in hell is she going to beat Johnny Mac. I saw Johnny Mac play Mardy fish a year ago for WTT and it was a close match with Mardy winning the last point. Johnny Mac could beat any of the top women any day of the week.

not serena or venus

[coloskier]

Originally Posted by Vision84

Haha Mcenroe loses to hawkeye at the end of the first video. Certainly shuts him up. Now if only they had that technology back when he was on the tour.

Surprisingly, most players on the tour at that time agreed that McEnroe was probably correct about 95% of the time on bad line calls. His eyes were amazing. That is why he could volley so well. Plus, McEnroe was correct 4 of 5 times in the match you are talking about.

[quest01]

Luke Jensen is one of the best tennis commentators. Loved his commentating in the Sampras vs Kuerten match in Miami 2000.

[krz]

Originally Posted by jt1224x0

not serena or venus

He can hang with top 100 men what makes you think he couldn't beat them? Because they hit too hard :P

Interestingly Roddick was asked this in an interview before wimby. And he said Mac easily.

[tennispro11]

Originally Posted by jt1224x0

not serena or venus

Yes he could. I would bet anything on that. I have seen both Williams play and McEnroe play. He would win hands down. Fairly easily too.

[LES]

I know this is a ridiculous question but.... If Mac were to compete in the WTA what rank would he be?

Has there been any 'Battle of the Sexes' besides Bobby Riggs vs Billie Jean King?

[CyBorg]

Originally Posted by LES

I know this is a ridiculous question but.... If Mac were to compete in the WTA what rank would he be?

Has there been any 'Battle of the Sexes' besides Bobby Riggs vs Billie Jean King?

Yes. Bobby Riggs and Margaret Court.

[xtremerunnerars]

Erm, the riggs and king match isn't really that serious. He only got one serve I think, and was way way past his prime.

Tilden played a match too against a top female and he beat the crap out of her, didn't he?


I think that we don't need to have a battle of the sexes because we know the outcome. Sorta like flipping a coin with two heads on it.

[Daniel Thomsen]

[quote=LES;1685712]I know this is a ridiculous question but.... If Mac were to compete in the WTA what rank would he be?
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If Mac were playing on the WTA tour he would detroy everyone. He would be ranked number 1 by far. He wouldnt lose a match in many years, basically until he couldnt walked anymore...

Listen guys, the best woman player wouldnt stand a chance of any male player ranked inside the top 1000.

Im from Denmark and I have seen Caroline Wozniacki (top 70, I believe on the wta tour) train and play many times. She is often traning with a male danish player who is about top 30 in DK. He wouldnt be ranked anywhere inside the top 1000 in the world and is beating caroline very easily.

[LES]

This is interesting. From Wikipedia:

Robert Larimore ("Bobby") Riggs (February 25, 1918 – October 25, 1995) was a 1930s–40s tennis player who was the World No. 1 or the co-World No. 1 player for three years, first as an amateur in 1941, then as a professional in 1946 and 1947. It is quite possible that he was also, unofficially, the best player in 1945 as well.

A master promoter of himself and the game, Riggs saw an opportunity in 1973 to make money and to elevate the popularity of a sport he loved. Although 55 years old, he deliberately played the male chauvinist card and came out of retirement to challenge one of the world's greatest female players to a match, claiming that the female game was inferior and that a top female player could not beat him even at the age of 55. The cagey Riggs challenged Margaret Court, 30 years old and the top female player in the world. In their May 13, 1973, Mother's Day match in Ramona, California, Riggs used his drop shots and lobs to keep an unprepared Court off balance. His easy 6–2, 6–1 victory landed Riggs on the cover of both Sports Illustrated and Time magazine.

In 1973, Riggs challenged Billie Jean King to a match, which was eventually played on September 20 of that year. Riggs lost the match which was promoted as The Battle of the Sexes 6–4, 6–3, 6–3.

[LES]

Originally Posted by xtremerunnerars

Erm, the riggs and king match isn't really that serious. He only got one serve I think, and was way way past his prime.

Tilden played a match too against a top female and he beat the crap out of her, didn't he?


I think that we don't need to have a battle of the sexes because we know the outcome. Sorta like flipping a coin with two heads on it.

The Riggs vs King match was normal rules. From Wikipedia:

In recent years a persistent urban legend has arisen, particularly on the Internet, that the rules were modified for the match so that Riggs had only one serve for King's two, and that King was allowed to hit into the doubles court area. This is false; the match was played under the normal rules of tennis.

There was also widespread speculation that Riggs had purposely lost, in order to win large sums of money that he had bet against himself. As Kramer writes, however, "Billie Jean beat him fair and square. A lot of men — especially around our age — were so stunned when he lost that they figured he must have tanked. Budge is convinced of that. But what motive would Riggs have for that? Bobby Riggs, the biggest ham in the world, gets his greatest audience — and purposely looks bad? There's no way. If he had beaten Billie Jean, he could have kept the act going indefinitely. Next they would have had him play Chrissy on clay."