A new feature-length film about the mouthy tennis legend reveals that it stings when you’re winning
“I felt like I was doomed,” says the familiar voice of John McEnroe in the opening minutes of, a new feature-length documentary about the New York tennis legend – and more recently, commentator – which is out in cinemas today.
This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Less fun when you’re in it, though, says McEnroe. Or at least after a while. The nights out at Studio 54, the guitar jams with Chrissie Hynde and Ronnie Wood, a fondness for “performance-detracting drugs” like marijuana and cocaine, the high-profile relationship – in 1986, McEnroe married actress Tatum O’Neill – all started to take their toll. But perhaps more than that, McEnroe suggests, there was something in his personality, in his psyche, that wasn’t sitting right.
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