While tennis is supposed to be a gentlemanly game, there are tons of professional athletes who get angry when they are losing.

Sure John brought attention to this sport but his childish behavior on the courts was ridiculous. People that are in the limelight need to be more attentive to the young people that may be influenced by their actions.

Not everyone can act like Borg, Sampras or Federer, and besides, like in all sports, tennis needs more personalities, more fireworks - and Johnny Mac gave a ton of both. Give the guy his due; the sport is better because of him.

As McEnroe was nearing retirement, a writer asked him will men's tennis be a dull sport with you gone? McEnroe replied, it's insufferably dull with me in it! He did dishonor tennis, by tennis' standards, and he (along with Jimmy Connors) is the only reason Americans watched men's tennis throughout the 1970's. The watchability standard for women's tennis is different.