Mac is an artist.

There are 7 or 8 points in the Mac-Connors 84’ USO semi final better than most of these points

You know, the Tennis Authorities should amend the equipment rule book and depressurise the balls a tad bit. This will bring back the net-attacking, and serve and volley game back, and make tennis more interesting. It's quite boring to see Nadal and Djokovic going bom-bom groundstrokes all day long.

It is such a pleasure to watch McEnroe's shot play.

Mac's cross-court back hand was just genius. Always

McEnroe is the master of touch no one on his level

Amazing John. Legend 🎾

McEnroe Is One/If Not The Greatest Volleyer Of All Time.

Pure 💎.people like McEnroe, Sampras, Federer used rackets as a wand !! 😇

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It´s amazing to see how much tennis changed from his matches in 1979 to his matches in 1992. He played in an era of fast transition and still he managed to be succesfull both against old-school players in the 70s and top-spin baseliners in the 90s. If you take Nadal, Djokovic, Federer... they have not seen that much change in tennis throughout their careers.

Magic!

Johnny Mac was a wizard with a racket

John Mc...no words...

Mcenroe the goat the best

Best hands in the business

Legend

How did he hit that backhand like that! Amazing

The best of all times,i think

Fantastico player

I was happy to see Borg hit a ball. Haven't seen any footage of him in 10+ years. Course. Started watching tennis in the late 70's, and McEnroe was THE most exciting player I've ever seen. The temper. The skill at going from rage to finesse player. He had power, but the 'touch' was why I say 'finesse.' Wow. Brings back memories. We have the 3 best players of all time, where they should be, but McEnroe was so divisive. I heard 4 people got heart attacks in Sweden from watching McEnroe/Borg at Wimbledon, one year.

immenso MC ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Not even close to his best of us open. Could name 10 totally different and better shots. 1984 semi and final had so many. 1985 semi vs wilander had a ton. Zvojunovic 1987, Chang 1992. Lazy stuff.

He read ur mind and gambled where you were going to hit. Pure genius we watched amazed. They were blasting it in 1984 1985. Saw Mac destroy prime Edberg at the great Western forum. Obliterated him. Even Edberg was amazed with Mac's volleys. Same year young Sampras played nobody had any idea.

The most talented of his time.

Mac was always angry. If it wasn't the ref, it was the crowd noise or his racket refused to listen. Still my 1st tennis hero

‘87 USO v. Lendl had a terrific point in there too.

Genial

John left hand is magnificent and outstanding

A bit surprised at some of these choices. The Lendl clip was a 'meat and potatoes' point in Macs repetoire. Sure Lendl had a pwerhouse forehand and was a great rival but maybe the 1987 point against Lendl where Mac does a 180 spin around and 'feels' the ball reverse crosscourt? Quite a few 'emergency' lunge volleys ( fromberg) or desperate flicks ( v Sampras ) that were impressive but Mac was reknowned for his great hands so I was expecting at least one of those drop volleys and touch shots. Still, it's always great to see clips of the master

I've been on a classic McEnroe youtube kick, i think i've watched pretty much every video out there. I started watching tennis at the tail end of the classic Borg / McEnroe rivalry. Maybe it's just me but nothing does it for me like watching classic clash of style baseline vs. serve and volley with wooden rackets. McEnroe was a maestro. Each player seemed to have personalty. Now it just seems like a bunch of running from baseline to baseline hitting the same shot over and over again for hours. I really do feel like something was lost from the beauty of the game with the switch to the large head widebody rackets made of materials other than wood. I can't remember where, but in one McEnroe interview he makes an interesting and salient point: in baseball they moved to aluminum bats for youth baseball and people learning the game but kept the wooden bats for the pros. Tennis should have done the same. It's a lesser game now. You really had to know how to use touch and finesse and had to hit the ball better with the smaller sweet spot of the wooden racket.

And those are the highlights?

You left out 2 great rallies from 1987. One against Zivojinovic and also the next match against Lendl!

It was so slow back then

Only true tennis genius !

Ha giocato molti punti più belli di questo filmato.

Mac’s hands are magic! If he wasn’t a tennis player, he would’ve made one hell of a Catholic priest.

I am Japanese , so , can use little english. McEnroe's touch will make more amazing shot at storoke than volley. Volley have "2" pattern , 1:strong and angular 2.drop But storoke have many pattern than volley. And , most of McEnroe's strokes are flat , so , will need detailed touch.

It was strange to see the last point (rated #1) with Bjorn attacking the net and John content to just hang back. Didn't even do much with the overhead (gasp!).

Just one time I want to see Feds Nadal Djok do an exhibition using wooden racquets. Just to see...

this belongs in the Top 10 Worst Tennis Compilations. This should be called "Collection of Good Passing Shots Against Connors and Misc Volleys McEnroe Hit All the Time." Where are the miraculous shoe-top volleys? Where's the legendary run-around-the-ball-and-pass against Lendl at Flushing? This is just random Mac points. Might as well put in the forehand volley against Nole when he came out of the booth to hack around.

I'm still waiting for the MASTER CLASS by John McEnroe.

Johnny Mac!

Of these the Sampras and Borg and Connors are clearly the best.

What’s missing is some of those baseline rallies with Borg

That last point, vs Borg, was awesome.

The only ones who missed the shots were the cameramen (or should I say the director/producer)!!!

Otro tenis. Menos potencia pero más clase y estilo.

Actually think I liked #3 the best.

This is so ordinary

better caption: ten random points that John McEnroe won

Whatever happened to Fromberg?

The point is, John is really good at tennis. That's just a fact.

Some hits and misses here. There were numerous better points from the 1981 Final against Borg that aren't shown.

No winners against Lendl ?

Ironically in this top ten of d gr8est servenvolley champ, most of the winners r from baseline. Good selection tho :-)

In basketball, everyone wants the 3pointer. In tennis every one wants to hit hard from baseline. No more art and kraft. Funny thing is that at the rec level, in both sports, these players are the "better" players in the eyes of most. Thing is, they know how to shoot, or hit the ball well, but they don't necessarily play well. Key difference. Btw...no favorite here. I just try to use pieces from every player: touch (Mac), sharp (Edberg), approach (Connors/Laver), blocks (Boris), overhead (Laver)

Boy has the game moved to slow compared to modern era, no wonder they slowed the courts down

McEnroe is the only leftie with a one-handed backhand that I know of.

Looks a bit like women's tennis compared to today

Surely he has better points than this. Those were good passing shots but nothing spectacular

#'s 7 & 6 were kind of "ho-hum". Nice, but pedestrian by Mac standards.

Considering he was using a piece of wood...

こりゃマズイ。今のトップ100全員がマッケンロー並かそれ以上にタッチが良いことが明らかになってしまっとる。

Pretty bad list...no Mc lendl 87 on an amazing pt?

Omg. I would prefer to watch whatever than a full game of this level of tennis...they were players ahead of their time but it is quite boring

No McEnroe v Chang? You can go now 👎

Nothing from Wimbledon

Get real. All those points are good but not amazing. Any D1 college player could do each and every one. To think otherwise you don't know shit about tennis. Thing is McEnroe could do them repeatedly. Stretch volley was nice but thousands of players do it on courts everyday. Cross court pass on a short nothing ball BFD.

Not even remotely the best points.

pesima seleccion... muy vago para buscar buenos puntos.... hubo cientos de mejores puntos que no estuvieron

what a disgusting role model for the young players of today....he should be ashamed of himself; but he's not because of what he is

I’m annoyed I watched that.

El big three hubiese derrotado facilmente a este sobrevalorado tenista..

Pretty poor selection 🙄

This is really a poor representation of his best points. So many are pretty average.

McEnroe was a drug user. Not really a big fan of his.

The music sucks!

Average. Today’s players would squash Mac.

This crap is the best they could come up with in all his matches?

It's a paradox,but Big Mac was also the most silent player of the history,moved like a cat,hit clean ....