McEnroe calls out Wimbledon champ and wants players to be like Kyrgios

John McEnroe has urged current tennis players to follow the example of Nick Kyrgios and show more emotion on court. The American icon, who won seven Grand Slam titles, also felt that Elena Rybakina lacked emotion when winning at Wimbledon last year.

“You must be watching different tournaments than me because I don’t see many players having meltdowns at all,” he argued. “And I know something about meltdowns, my past experience, and I’ve seen a couple of players, obviously Nick Kyrgios comes to mind having meltdowns on a pretty regular basis, but for the most part, tennis players are incredibly well behaved, maybe too well behaved in my book.”

And McEnroe added he wanted to see more players like the Canberra man: “I’d like to see a little bit more explosive temper see the emotions, wear it on their sleeve, there’s a handful of people you see that, but I just saw someone win Wimbledon on the girl’s side (Rybakina) who didn’t show any emotion, so I don’t know if any of us wanna see that.”

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