I don’t think so,” he concludes, “although overall my body of work certainly eclipses Serena in this area. There is a very long passage about getting to play guitar for one song with Chrissy Hynde (one of his many “good friends” he talks about in the book) and the Pretenders. Bought as a Xmas gift for a tennis mad girlfriend who informed me that she had been meaning to treat herself to the book for some time but never managed to get around to it. All of which leaves McEnroe’s shtick looking increasingly dated, even laboured, as if he’s going through the motions with his emotions.

This follow up remains an easy read, John doesn't take himself so serious, however, the book struggles with flow. McEnroe has forged a second career as an opinionated, well-informed and indeed pre-eminent commentator and analyst. McEnroe details life behind the scenes on the tennis tour and provides the reader with a very candid look at his personal life and struggles. Hopefully, over the past few years I’ve made some progress in grudgingly figuring out how to become a better person, and am now known for more than just hitting a tennis ball and getting upset and yelling at linesmen and umpires,” McEnroe says early in the book.

People that want to read about McEnroe the tennis player will prefer the 1st book, but for those that want to read more about McEnroe the man and how he may have mellowed with age, this is the book that will deal with that. Pps: Certo che gli anni d’oro del tennis e delle superpersonalità me li ricordo pure io, che sapevo chi erano Borg Mac Wilander e Lendl, mentre oggi non so neanche chi ci sia al primo posto. We'd come up against each other on a number of occasions since then; sometimes I'd won, mostly I'd lost.

As a reader, I kind of hate ghost writing because it generally seems so forced and sounds like a lame dad trying to sound cool writing a book. Today, though, I have a chance to put that right because I am playing an exhibition match against Lendl in front of seven people.

A decade after his international number-one bestseller SERIOUS , John McEnroe is back and ready to talk. Ever since the historic 1980 Wimbledon Borg-McEnroe final, this former shy high school freshman tennis wannabe got a Mac-fueled push to actually join a sports team in high school.

Men’s tennis has become too power-serve oriented – at least Women’s tennis has more rallies and somehow the shorter games can make for an interesting match. I never really took to Andy, because he felt like a fake and was a real nuisance when you were off your head. In BUT SERIOUSLY John McEnroe confronts his demons and reveals his struggle to reinvent himself from ex-champion to father, broadcaster and author. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Like the first one, “But Seriously” is a very quick read, has plenty of humor and covers a wide variety of topics in addition to tennis.

If you met John McEnroe at a cocktail party, you might be awe-struck by the 7-time majors-winning legend, or you might just think he's the same arrogant a-hole he always was, but either way, there's a good chance he'd be one of the smartest guys in the room. McEnroe himself either withdrew or deliberately “choked” in several matches due to his tennis “depression”. Visto il grande successo dell'autobiografia di Agassi il grande McEnroe ha pensato di provarci anche lui.Patty is an amazing singer (again, I didn't know much about her before reading the book and listening to her music subsequently).