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Friday, August 15, 2008

McEnroe Still Has It


He hasn't lost his touch. John McEnroe, at the tender age of 49, managed to get himself tossed from the over-30s Hall of Fame Champions Cup in Rhode Island on Thursday.

Volatile as ever, McEnroe got tossed from his opening match at the over-30s Hall of Fame Champions Cup on Thursday for a new kind of triple fault: Cursing, arguing with the chair umpire and making an obscene gesture at fans.

While arguing a line call, McEnroe was given a code violation warning for uttering an obscenity. When he kept up his tirade against chair umpire Ray Brodeur, he drew two abuse of official penalties.

As the argument progressed, fans at the International Hall of Fame court started yelling at McEnroe, telling him to resume play. McEnroe responded with his obscene gesture and was thrown out.

And he wasn't even losing, he was leading 6-3, 2-4 before he went apeshit.

I leave you with the best meltdown ever:

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