John McEnroe talks after an exhibition tournament in Madison Square Garden – Tennis News
Former world number one, John McEnroe, was the spokesman of the exhibition tournament played in the Madison Square Garden on Monday. The matches included the former world number ones; Andy Roddick, Roger Federer, Caroline Wozniacki
and Maria Sharapova.
While talking to the media representatives, seven time major champion, McEnroe stated “I have been long in trying to get as many kids as possible to play this sport. A lot of people are trying to think out of the box that the game
has been inaccessible and not affordable enough so it’s nice to see kids get an opportunity to play. The more that we can do that the better chance we’ll have with success in the future. Maybe kids thinking that they actually want to play tennis perhaps before
other sports.”
He is affiliated with the kids; grooming them to take tennis seriously and make it their profession in his academy in America. He wanted a lot more efforts to be made in order to make this sport a world wide web that is accessible
to everyone. He further added, “We need to find some of the kids that have turned to the other sports.” He pointed out that football is a major game and youngsters from soccer and basketball are the ones as well who should be focused. Kids from these games
should be brought to witness matches of tennis and he is actually working on that at the moment.
The rocket-serve master, Roddick, stunned the third ranked legendary tennis professional, Federer, in straight sets 7-5, 7-6(7). In the women’s encounter, the slender-legged Russian beauty queen, Sharapova, ousted the funky Dane
tennis icon, Wozniacki, in straight sets 6-3, 6-4.
Wozniacki’s boyfriend, Rory Mcllroy, also picked up a racquet and played a single point against Sharapova who gifted it to him to entertain the crowd. A loud roar of spectators was witnessed throughout the arena and YouTube has
a video of the point played between the Russian and number one golfer in the world.
McEnroe also added another fact that tennis is too expensive compared to other sports. The cost of racquet and professional trainers is too high for the bulk of kids out there. So, more often a talented potential player can’t make
it to the elite platforms due to lack of finances. He is currently working on that and urges everyone to help his cause and sky-rocket the interest in tennis.
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