Patrick McEnroe
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657 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 20 May
Patrick McEnroe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I would just go down there.
Before I could even ride a bicycle, I would go down on my tricycle, and I would hit against the wall for just hours and hours.
I think it was like, you know, we obviously, I obviously started playing a lot at a young age.
So that tends to be the route that professional.
How young?
Well, usually less than five.
And so I said, John was a freak in that he didn't start to lose eight and a half.
But because he was such a freak of nature, the way his coordination, he was able to become number one.
Most players that you see playing on TV at Wimbledon in the US Open, they've probably started playing tennis around five or six years old.
And they do other things.
We encourage our academy kids to do other things, to do other sports, not specialize so young.
But it is becoming more and more difficult because the level is getting better and better as kids in all sports, travel soccer teams and travel lacrosse.
And so they feel pressured to do more at a younger age.
There's the economic side of it.
which we're all guilty of, whether it's our tennis academy or the people running travel soccer teams.
So that pressure is there.
And then as kids just play more, the average kid gets better.
And so the bar gets raised for everyone.
So what I'm seeing and what I've seen in college tennis, and you rightly mentioned, it's starting to happen in a lot of other sports as well.
But tennis is like the canary in the coal mine.
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