Patrick McEnroe
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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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Well, so to differentiate you from someone who's of an equal ability, the mental part is huge.
But I tell this story to people, like when I played in my day, I was like a journeyman player, ranked between 25 and 30 and 50 or 70.
If I played Andre Agassi and he was playing, I had no chance.
I had no chance to beat him.
He was just that much better than me.
It doesn't mean mentally.
Now, if I played someone, you know, Boris Becker, I had matched up a little better with him.
He had some issues.
But for Sinner and Alcaraz against 98% of the people they play against, they're better.
So they're not going to lose unless something very strange happens.
But when they play each other, someone of an equal ability, then the mental side becomes a much bigger part of it.
So there's certain genetic differences between players that differentiate the top couple from the rest.
But I'll tell you what I've seen, and this is part of our earlier collegiate tennis discussion, there's a lot more really good players, say, from 50 to...
350, 400.
Whereas in my day, if you're outside the top 120, 150, the level went way down.
Now there's just a lot more really good players.
But the difference at the top is still, to me, mostly physical.
And then what differentiates the greats from the all-time greats, when you look at Federer and Nadal, Djokovic, yeah, they were better players, but they were also just... They learned how to...
recover, I think, from losses better than it.
Because tennis is a brutal sport.
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