Synopses & Reviews
John McEnroe was just an eighteen-year-old amateur from Queens when he stunned the tennis world by making it to the Wimbledon semifinals in 1977. He turned pro the following year after winning the NCAA singles title; three years later, he was ranked number one in the world. McEnroe dominated tennis in the eighties, winning three Wimbledon and four U.S. Open titles. His 1980 Wimbledon final match with Bjorn Borg is considered by many tennis experts to be the best match ever.
You Cannot Be Serious is McEnroe at his most personal, a no-holds-barred examination of contemporary tennis, his championship seasons, his cantankerous on-court behavior, his marriage to Tatum O'Neal, his current roles as a devoted father, husband to pop star Patty Smyth, senior tennis tour player, and controversial television commentator, and much more.
Funny, biting, close to the bone, this is exactly the book you'd expect-and want-from one of the most colorful figures of our time.
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"...eminently readable, because it is, like him, reflexively honest." The Washington Post
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"For McEnroe, the persona hinted at in public remains more interesting and complicated than the person he gives us in this book. While the champion would no doubt argue, it appears that he has hit this one a little wide." Publishers Weekly
About the Author
John McEnroe has seventy-seven career singles titles and seventy-seven doubles titles to his credit.
James Kaplan is a frequent New Yorker and Vanity Fair contributor and author of two novels, Two Guys from Verona and Pearl's Progress.