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John McEnroe
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American former tennis player (born 1959)
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John McEnroe is an American tennis player and journalist who was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, on February 16, 1959. He is a left-handed athlete who stands 180 centimeters tall and weighs 75 kilograms. McEnroe attended Stanford University and has resided in New York City. His professional tennis career included membership on the United States Davis Cup team. He has been married to Tatum O'Neal and Patty Smyth, and his sibling is Patrick McEnroe.
McEnroe holds a singles record of 881–198 and a doubles record of 543–103. He has received the International Tennis Hall of Fame award and was named Associated Press Athlete of the Year. In addition to his sports career, he has worked as an employee for the BBC.
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Person · Open Library
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Acting · Wiesbaden, Germany
John Patrick McEnroe Jr. (born February 16, 1959) is a German-born American former professional tennis player and tennis television commentator. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 170 weeks, and as world No. 1 in men's doubles for 269 weeks (third-most of all time). He is one of two male players (alongside Stefan Edberg) to have…
Known for
- The Dink2026
- The Match That Changed Tennis — Self2026
- Rafa — Self2026
- How to Live2025
- The Trainer — John McEnroe2024
- Nasty — Self - Winner of 7 Grand Slam Singles Titles2024
- Federer: Twelve Final Days — Self2024
- Dreambreaker: A Pickleball Story — Self2024
- Roland Garros - 40 ans d'exploits — Self2024
- Game 7 — Self2024
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Music · MusicBrainz
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- Male
- Origin
- Canada
- Active from
- 1974
Discography
Member of
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 191
- Total plays
- 790
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,672x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,689x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,923x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,597x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,138x
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Quotes
- “You are the pits of the world! Vultures! Trash!”
- “I’ll let the racket do the talking.”
- “This taught me a lesson, but I’m not sure what it is.”
- “If, in a few months, I’m only number 8 or number 10 in the world, I’ll have to look at what off-the-court work I can do. I will need to do something if I want to be number 1.”
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Sports profile
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- Tennis
- Team
- _Retired Tennis
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- United States
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Encyclopedic overview
John Patrick McEnroe Jr. (born February 16, 1959) is an American former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 170 weeks, and as world No. 1 in men's doubles for 269 weeks (third-most of all time). He is one of two male players (alongside Stefan Edberg) to have held both No. 1 rankings, and the only one to hold both simultaneously. McEnroe was best known during his playing career for his shot-making and volleying skills, his rivalries with Björn Borg and Jimmy Connors, and his confrontational on-court behavior, which frequently landed him in trouble with umpires and tennis authorities.
McEnroe won an Open Era record 155 career titles: 77 in singles, 77 in doubles and 1 in mixed doubles. This includes seven singles majors (four at the US Open and three at Wimbledon), nine men's doubles majors, and one mixed doubles major. McEnroe is the only male player to win more than 70 titles in both singles and doubles. His singles match record of 82–3 in 1984 remains the best single-season win rate of the Open Era. McEnroe also excelled at the year-end tournaments, winning eight singles and seven doubles titles, both of which are records. Three of his winning singles year-end championships were at the Masters Grand Prix (the ATP year-end event) and five were at the World Championship Tennis (WCT) Finals, an event that ended in 1989. He was named the ATP Player of the Year and the ITF World Champion three times each: in 1981, 1983 and 1984.
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