John McEnroe, unsurprisingly perhaps, agrees with Boris Becker that modern tennis needs some candour, some edginess, on court and off, to breath life back into a game that has been too nice for too long.
In separate interviews with our sister paper the Guardian in the past few days, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray have agreed there is an unspoken pact of mutual respect, without going all the way with Becker, who says Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer, “really don’t like each other”.
McEnroe, who created more than a few stirs at Wimbledon gathering his three titles, tells a small group of reporters who are not exactly knocked off their seats by the declaration: “I don’t know if, deep down, they get along as well as they say they do.