Filed under: U.S. Open, ATPMASON, Ohio -- It's never easy to admit you're wrong. For John McEnroe, it's impossible.
But I gave him a chance Wednesday. Guess how he reacted.
"I don't think you know the game,'' he snapped at me. He went on a rant that included something or other about "the stupidest argument.''
Now I know how line judges used to feel. Only difference was, I was able to talk back.
Breathe in, breathe out, John. You're 51 years old.
Let me step back a little. McEnroe, still the most important face and voice in American tennis, irresponsibly botched the aftermath of Serena Williams' threatening, f-bomb laced tirade at a line judge last year.
He was the fuel on the fire of a debate that grew beyond a simple dispute over tennis and footfaults and into the social fight that inevitably accompanies anything about the Williams sisters. It lined up mostly, but not entirely, along racial lines.
McEnroe and his brother Patrick, the U.S. Davis Cup captain, were on an ESPN conference call Wednesday to preview this year's U.S. Open, which starts Aug. 30. It's the one-year anniversary of Williams telling the linesperson she would take the (bleeping) ball and shove it down her (bleeping) throat.
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