I remember when Chrissy Everett was the #1 ranked female tennis player and an interviewer asked her if she thought she could beat some of the top men and she laughed and said, my brother who is a very good club player has never lost a set to me.

John McEnroe has always been cool. He was great for tennis, and is still contributing great stuff.

McEnroe and Connors such a classic rivalry. I remember watching them as a kid. Love his honesty and calling as it is. ❤️from🇨🇦

Our PC society is out of control! I think McEnroe was generous about his comments and very polite about his praise for her.

I think there is one thing Mac said that went over everybody's heads. Connors (all-time great player in his own right) beat Martina (all time great women's player, probably best ever after Serena) with ONE serve AND gave Martina the alleys (she had the whole court while he had the standard lines). That is unreal if that actually happened and it really should prove to everyone just how big the gap between men's and women's tennis is.

This was an AWESOME interview!! I love John McEnroe! And I completely agree with him :) 👍🏼 Such a cool guy!!

Dmitry Tursonov is currently ranked 713 in the world. He's won 7 titles on the ATP tour and won the Davis Cup for Russia. I can't see Serena beating him.

I've forgotten how nice John is. I love listening when he is commenting on a tennis game. I love hearing him when he is talking about... well about anything. As they say he is very likable.

Great interview, so glad they played the tape. How could the woman expect him to say Serena is the best tennis player ever? Have a lot of respect for John.

One of the only shows that talked about the statement john made and actually played the entire quote in context.

McEnroe's a lot more likable and fun than I would have guessed.

McEnroe should have asked the NPR. Host “does she play tennis?” “Does she know what the hell shes talking about?” I love his honesty and sincerity.

I grew up watching John and have always liked him!

I hated him on the court and I love him behind the microphone. Best interview ever. He’s extremely likeable. . . Off the court.

Forget the pros, the top 1000 college men’s players would demolish her.

I love him for what he is in this PC infested world

I think John was being generous when he said 700. There are high school dudes who would beat her.

No. 203 sweeps Williams At the height of the Williams boom in 1998, an unofficial game took place in Australia after Serena and Venus claimed that no male player outside the top 200 could beat them. Up stepped a German known as Karsten Braasch who was ranked 203rd in the world and after first beating Serena 6-1, he then disposed of Venus 6-2. "I didn't know it would be that difficult. I played shots that would have been winners on the women's circuit and he got to them very easily," said Serena. "They wouldn't have had a chance against anyone inside the top 500 because today I played like someone ranked 600th to keep it fun," was Braasch's assessment

In his youth I thought he was a bad loser and a spoiled brat. Today I love the dry humor and straight talk. He was one serious player when competing.

How I love this man. His importance for tennis on different levels is huge. When Johnny and Mats Wilander releases "Sound of Silence" together, I'll be in heaven.

700 ? I would have said 2000 - and yet, I do agree she is the greatest female tennis player of all time.

Still my favorite player to this day. And no, Serena wouldn't be in the Top 700 if she played full time on the Men's circuit. Everybody knows that who's honest.

gota love this guy so god bless you JHON MACENROE

I grew up watching McEnroe, Borg,connors, natase, etc all brilliant players great characters missing today 2 many robots

Ze Zhang is the 250th ranked men's singles player in the world as of 6/28/2017. Issam Haitham Taweel is 700.

The snarky way the interviewer said "why not greatest tennis player in the world?" People love to ignore reality.

McEnroe is telling the truth . He has been very classy. Women will compete eventually in non athletic sports like bowling or golf. Serena herself said Murray would beat her . THE NPR HOST IS TRASH.

Mac is a fun guy... was lucky enough to see him play at Wimby

And I love the 'reporter' questioning John McEnroe about tennis..

John McEnroe is the a great guy and a huge inspiration and what he said about Serena Williams was the absolute truth and all those people who told him to apologize to her are morons. And honestly 700 may be a bit generous for her.

Even despite the awesome record of guys like Sampras, Federer, Nadal, Novak....if I had to pick one player to play a game for my life, it'd be McEnroe when he was at his peak. A fantastic competitor.

I just have tremendous respect for McEnroe. He says what he thinks but he is balanced and reasonable and he is self deprecating

Got to love Johnny Mac! All the Men players ranked top one thousand are awesome!

Johnny Mac what a legend luv him

Senera should tweet an apolgy to John...it was the news reporter who baited John. And Senera should tweet out a angery tweet for the eporter to keep her name out of it so she can take care of her baby.

Good to see a famous guy that's not politically correct.

He spoke the truth, the general public don't like the truth.

I'm really really glad he didnt back down. The interviewer was a shit stirrer because he gave her props. They twisted it in context. I played competitive tennis in USTA ranked tournaments and the best girls couldnt beat the best boys. I understand equality and people hate gender bias but there is only one way to prove it. Let Serena do a leg on the Mens tour French to Wimbledon to US Open...and witness the carnage. She probably wouldnt get out of the 1st round at any of the majors.

He's a very good guitar player.....

THE -MAN -CAN PLAY FKIN TENNIS

VERY TRUE -JOHN

Very cool 😎 guy John Mc Enroe. My youth hero

The most ridiculous comment in the taped interview was that woman saying “why qualify it ?” Duh.

I've been around tennis my whole life and played at the Jr., H.S. and College level and am still an A level Club player and I believe Serena would have an extremely hard time beating any of the Boy's H.S. State Champions in America.

"1998: Karsten Braasch vs. Serena and Venus Williams, a rivalry in the "gender war" at the 1998 Australian Open, during which Karsten Braasch took up the challenge of the Williams sisters who said they could beat any tennis player classified beyond the top two hundred of the ATP rankings. Braasch, ranked 203rd at the time, verified their announcements. The matches were played on court number 12 in Melbourne Park. The tennis player first beat Serena 6: 1, leading 5: 0, and then Venus"

I'd love to see Steffi vs. Andre! Or Serena vs. Andre.His return of serve would be wakeup call!Snap right back at you! Return Pete's serve! Try it!

Dont sell yourself short Mac, it was great tennis back then

You are not allowed to say that, Mac. But it probably added 10,000 sales of your book.

SHE IS A GREAT TENNIS CHAMP

Johnny Mac was and is Awesome. This agenda that people have gotta get life.

JOHN IS BEING very generous by saying, Serena could possibly beat a top male at 750 in the world(if the conditions were right). He is correct saying he "might" not be able to beat her now at almost 60 years old....and that there are a handful of lower level male players that would not handle a big time event. But seriously!..... virtually any man with pro points would win. In fact, I would bet anything Serena would struggle to win against the top 10 or so boys in high school in the USA....forget her winning against top 10 male juniors in the world. My guess is John could beat still beat Serena.

When I was 17 and in school, the girls Netball team challenged us boys to a Netball game. We had some training sessions and the girls looked pretty good, fluid and accurate shooting. In the game they didn’t score against us as our whole team averaged 6ft tall and we were so much quicker and stronger than them

This kills me that people had an issue with what he said. You have high school and college players (non-professional) who would beat her. And I love Serena. Flo-Jo has held the record in the 100 and 200 for 33 years. And she would not qualify for some high-school finals against the boys. I also believe WNBA teams would lose to some high-school boys teams. It is not an insult. It’s just a fact. With all that being said, I enjoy watching some women’s sports more than the guys.

i effin hate this guy when he was playing. but once he has retired, ive grown to like him.

Michell Wie tried playing on the mens' pro golf tour, which is way easier to do than a pro woman tennis player going up against a man on the mens' tour, and it didn't work out very good for Wie.

You got to have him on more often

YOUR ACE -JOHN

He's a funny dude. Fast mind.

Hahaha the sound bite by that chick is so ridiculous that interview was so stupid of course Serena isn't a top player on the mens circuit.

700? Try 2,000. She would lose to virtually every male D1 college player.

is someone seriously disputing this ? Serena would not even stand a chance against an American high school top player what is happening here?

They are right he shouldnt sing.Good on the guitar and a great tennis player and a great commentator.

John is fucking funny 😂❤

There was talk like this during Wimbledon 1984 in which people asked McEnroe if Martina Navratilova could beat a male player on the tour (or maybe beat him) and he said that was ridiculous. It was a different conversation then. Now there is political correctness to consider and other stuff.

Look up the Muay Thai Fight between The Best Muay Thai female and some middle of the road guy--- same weight class... It's on you tube.

This whole thing is nonsense. She would get her ass handed to her by the top 700 guys. Women players are not as strong or quick as men. They only play the best two sets out of three...men play the best 3 out of 5. The host was trying to make it a racial/gender thing. Serena's response was BS. She should have remained quiet. McEnroe speaks the truth in the age of political correctness.

Who had the worst temper, McEnroe or Jimmy Connors?

this would have to be over 5 setsyeah!

ACE -JOHN

Nice guitar.

Listen, McEnroe is a champion of facts

He is right.

Some people believe so much in *bullshit* than when they hear the truth, they get so up in arms.

THE EARTH IS FLAT

Dan Patrick sounds exactly like Anthony Mason on CBS.

OOOOHHHHYES

Not a tennis fan but awesome interview.

John is obviously Aspergers. Take away all his Aspergers traits and you have the sweetest guy.

If journalists get this wrong when it's so obvious, they shouldn't be journalists. Women can compete with men in anything demandingly physical? Of course not. They have other areas to excel in.

The current Women's 100 meter world record is 10.5. The current world's top 200 men's sprinters all beat that time every race. It's not something you have to be theoretical about. If tennis tracks sprinting ...

Just watch mixed doubles.....

It sounds like the women who seem offended by your comments are those who don't actually understand tennis. I'm a woman who plays tennis AND a feminist and have no issue with what McEnroe said at all. I think Serena is amazing too.

Johnny McEnroe and Adam Sandler. Johnny Mac!

John Mc is god..smart as hell and no bs

I hope he's still married to my favorite 80's female rockstar.

If he was only 40 he'd be able to beat Serena he's nearly 60 years old now of course he wouldn't beat her and if he could then forget 700 she shouldn't be ranked

The problem with being PC is that it's not honest. People want equality and that is noble but it's not reality.

America's favorite German.

John always speak out whatever in his mind, never says anything politically right just to please people.

Could you imagine if Nadal, Federer or Djokovic ever transitioned to female and played on the women's tour??? It will happen someday with someone like Dr. Renee Richards decades ago---but they weren't that good. Imagine if it happens with a really good player? They would win the grand slam every year. McEnroe is right about what would happen if Serena or any of the top women players ever played the top men players. It's a stupid topic anyway that a leftist from NPR had to bring up of course.

And he would absolutely still beat her.

John is so eloquent, he's 100% on point here on the Serena debate. I could probably beat Serena. On Xbox.

This is great bar conversation....but on the women's side excluding Serena most of the woman tank against Serena after a set there is a little more fight on the mens and Mac brought up best of 5 sets....so u have to win 3 sets to win a match and that just makes for more fight in the player and more chance of a come back when a player is down a set...I don't know why great players always drop the first set before they wake up and win a match....I'm gonna give y'all a fix....u want to see who is the best....do this if u get time....play a time frame 40 minutes or an hour go game for game switching serve and just total the games.....switch sides if necessary and bring in any players u want change them....don't forget the average male serve is 50 mph faster then on the women side for starters....so good luck oh yeah let the players put up there own money if they want or better let the press put up the money its a right off anyway....hah

John McEnroe said she was the best female player ever , what's so controversial about that? She is female, nothing wrong with that.

UFC tried to run the crap that Rhonda Rousey could beat any man or woman her size.They also compared her to Floyd Mayweather JR in a combat fight. Which footwork and punching alone would have her in trouble easily.

John, would you explain the physiological difference between men and women and look exactly at the person from L.A. or NY who is asking this , and try to pc it so they don't take offense----!?

McEnroe is 1000% correct about Serena - why must we pretend male and female athletes have the same physical ability? It’s just stupid.

THATS AZZ

VERY TRUE JOHN

Serena wouldn’t be able to get out of the challengers on the men’s tour