"You guys are the absolute pits of the world you know that?" I screamed. I threw my new racket and gave a scream that came straight from Queens - but that traveled very far in the years since. He also made famous the phrase "you cannot be serious", which years later became the title of McEnroe's autobiography, by shouting it after several umpires' calls during his matches.Īlthough this was to become one of my most famous matches, I'm positive almost nobody remembers who I played, and where I played it: Tom Gullikson, first round, Wimbledon, 1981. $1,500 and came close to being thrown out after he called umpire Ted James "the pits of the world" and then swore at tournament referee Fred Hoyles. Following his first-round match against Tom Gullikson, McEnroe was fined U.S. McEnroe remained controversial when he returned to Wimbledon in 1981. During his career, McEnroe won 77 ATP-listed singles titles and 71 in doubles. McEnroe also won a record eight season ending championships, comprising five WCT Finals titles and three Masters Grand Prix titles from twelve final appearances at those two events, a record he shares with Ivan Lendl. He won seven Grand Slam singles titles (three at Wimbledon and four at the US Open), nine Grand Slam men's doubles titles, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title. 1 professional tennis player from the United States. (born February 16, 1959) is a former World No. Tennis player John McEnroe spouted this bit of "Queens-ese" at Wimbledon in 1981.
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