biography
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McEnroe, John (Patrick)
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pronunciation:
[makenroh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1959– )
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| biography:
| Tennis player, born in Wiesbaden, WC Germany. He trained at Port Washington Tennis Academy in New York State, and at 18 became the youngest man to reach the Wimbledon semifinals (1977). He won four US Open singles titles (1979–81, 1984) and three Wimbledon singles titles (1981, 1983-4), and was an invaluable member of the US Davis Cup team between 1978 and 1985. He was also Grand Prix winner in 1979 and 1984–5, and World Championship Tennis champion in 1979, 1981, and 1983–4. His skill as a player was often overshadowed by his fierce emotional outbursts on court and frequent wrangling with umpires, which always attracted the attention of the media, and which led to professional censure on several occasions. He married film actress Tatum O'Neill (1963– ) in 1986, but they separated in 1993. Since 1995 he has been a TV commentator at major tennis tournaments, and more recently host of the TV quiz show The Chair (2002). An autobiography, Serious, appeared in 2002. |
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