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How Many Tennis Grand Slams Did John McEnroe Win?

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John McEnroe made his talent look easy, but he often undermined his skill with what became known as a \u201ctennis tantrum.\u201d In fact, Newsweek explained his infamous outbursts as coming from a \u201cyoung man who raised perfectly placed strokes to a high art form, only to resort to tantrums that smear his masterpieces like graffiti.\u201d

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Still, there\u2019s no denying McEnroe\u2019s surliness toward opponents and referees was only matched by the Grand Slam winner\u2019s uncontested prowess on the tennis court.

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John McEnroe\u2019s tennis career

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A natural athlete in high school, McEnroe made a name for himself in the tennis world after graduation. He won the first of his 17 total Grand Slams at the French Open in 1977. Enjoying his first notable success with mixed doubles partner Mary Carillo, McEnroe intended to compete for the junior title at Wimbledon next. However, his expertise won him a spot in the men\u2019s competition where he finished as a semi-finalist against Jimmy Connors.

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At 18, McEnroe was the youngest man to reach such heights at Wimbledon, and it formed the foundation for his future success. He won a scholarship to Stanford and led the tennis team to an NCAA Championship before turning pro at the end of his freshman year. The rookie led Tony Trabert\u2019s U.S. team to its first Davis Cup victory in six years. It became the first of five American Davis Cup world titles: 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, and 1992.

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The crowd-drawing rivalry between Bjorn Borg and McEnroe began during the men\u2019s singles finals at Wimbledon in 1980. While Borg was victorious, it remains one of the finest Wimbledon games ever played. Known as the \u201cFire and Ice\u201d rivalry, Borg and McEnroe competed against each other 22 times. Each won 11 matches.

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McEnroe\u2019s 1981 Wimbledon victory will forever be remembered by what became his catchphrase. While demeaning an official over a call made in his opponent\u2019s favor, McEnroe screams, \u201cYou CANNOT be serious!\u201d It was an event for which he was penalized.

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McEnroe\u2019s fever pitch continued on the cour. At the 1984 Stockholm Open, he was suspended for three weeks for calling the umpire a jerk. The athlete completed his turn at the French Open the same year with a loss to Ivan Lendl. It marked the beginning of McEnroe\u2019s downhill slope.

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Ranked the No. 1 men\u2019s tennis player from 1981 through 1984, McEnroe slowly began to unravel. By 1985, his skirmishes on and off the court cost him valuable opportunities. He struggled to keep pace with younger competitors. Elsewhere, McEnroe\u2019s volatile behavior disqualified him from the Australian Open and U.S. Davis Cup.

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With family taking center stage, McEnroe took a sabbatical in 1986. His return, however, continued to be plagued by misbehavior. In 1990, McEnroe was disqualified from the Australian Open for unsportsmanlike conduct. He continued to impress as a Davis Cup player, but by 1992, McEnroe sought a change.

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McEnroe embarked on a new career as a TV sports analyst covering the 1992 French Open. In 1999, the tennis star was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

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John McEnroe\u2019s Grand Slam wins

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With a total of 17 Grand Slam wins, McEnroe\u2019s illustrious record involves victories in the singles and doubles categories.

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McEnroe won a total of seven Grand Slam singles: Wimbledon in 1981, 1983, and 1984 as well as the US Open in 1979, 1980, 1981, and 1984.

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One mixed-double and nine doubles tournaments were won by McEnroe. His first Grand Slam win was the mixed doubles match at the 1977 French Open. McEnroe\u2019s doubles wins at Wimbledon were all with Peter Fleming (1979, 1981, 1983, 1984, and 1992). He and Fleming also won three doubles tournaments at the US Open (1979, 1981, and 1983). In 1989, McEnroe won the US Open doubles tournament with Mark Woodforde.

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Following McEnroe\u2019s ejection from the Australian Open, Sports Illustrated summed up his career:\u00a0\u201cMcEnroe\u2019s seven Grand Slam titles amount to about half of what he could have won had he bothered to train properly and gain control of his temper.\u201d

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John McEnroe (born February 16, 1959, Wiesbaden, West Germany [now in Germany]) American tennis player who established himself as a leading competitor in the late 1970s and the \u201980s. He also was noted for his poor behaviour on court, which resulted in a number of fines and suspensions and, on January 21, 1990, in his default at the Australian Open.

McEnroe grew up in Douglaston, New York, and received tennis training at the Port Washington Tennis Academy nearby. He first attracted international attention as an amateur in 1977, when at the age of 18 he became the youngest man to reach the Wimbledon semifinals. He enrolled at Stanford University in 1977, but, after winning the U.S. collegiate title in 1978, he left school and turned professional. In his first six months on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tour, McEnroe acquired a record of 49 wins and only 7 losses.

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In 1978 McEnroe helped the United States win the Davis Cup for the first time in five years by beating the Chilean competitors with doubles partner Brian Gottfried and by winning the singles over John Lloyd and Buster Mottram, both from Great Britain. McEnroe subsequently led the U.S. team to four more Davis Cup titles.

In 1979 McEnroe\u2019s powerful volley helped him to win his first U.S. Open, and by the year\u2019s end he was rated one of the best players in the world. He repeated his U.S. Open victory in 1980 and 1981\u2014becoming the first man since Bill Tilden to win that title three consecutive times\u2014and again in 1984. He also won the Wimbledon singles in 1981, 1983, and 1984. With partner Peter Fleming, McEnroe won several doubles titles at the U.S. Open and Wimbledon, as well as Championship Tennis tournaments. From 1983 to 1985 he won 75 matches on indoor carpet, setting a record for most consecutive victories on one surface; his record was broken in 2007 by Rafael Nadal of Spain (competing on clay).

McEnroe\u2019s temper tantrums, invective, and \u201cracket abuse\u201d were characteristic features of his performances. At the 1990 Australian Open, he became the first player to be ejected from a Grand Slam event in nearly 30 years. In 1992 he retired from professional play and subsequently became a television announcer. He was also involved in music, forming the Johnny Smyth Band; the name was partly inspired by rocker Patty Smyth, whom McEnroe wed in 1997; he had earlier been married (1986\u201394) to actress Tatum O\u2019Neal. During this time he continued to play on the seniors tour, and in 1999 he returned to the professional tour, competing in the mixed-doubles event with Steffi Graf; they reached the semifinals but Graf withdrew, citing an injury. In 2006 McEnroe competed in two ATP doubles events, winning a tournament in San Jose, California.

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The autobiographies You Cannot Be Serious and But Seriously were published in 2002 and 2017, respectively. McEnroe was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1999.

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Tennis Hall of Famer John McEnroe joined ESPN in 2009 for its first-ever coverage of the US Open.\u00a0 In 2012 with ESPN\u2019s new exclusivity at Wimbledon, he added that event to his schedule.

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McEnroe was the top ranked singles player in the world from 1981 through 1984 and the top doubles player from 1979 through 1984 and again in 1989.\u00a0 He won 77 singles titles in his legendary career, highlighted by seven Grand Slam singles titles, including the US Open four times.\u00a0 He also won 10 more major championships in doubles or mixed doubles.\u00a0 An avid Davis Cup participant (he holds the record for the most U.S. Davis Cup wins in singles with 41 and in singles and doubles combined, 59), he led the U.S. to five championships and later served as the team’s captain.\u00a0 He also won the NCAA singles and team titles while attending Stanford.

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In the 1980 Wimbledon singles final, he lost to Bjorn Borg in an epic battle still considered today to be one of the greatest tennis matches of all time.\u00a0 McEnroe defeated Borg at Wimbledon in 1981, for his first of three Wimbledon singles titles.\u00a0 He also won the Grand Prix Masters and the WCT Finals that year and was named AP male athlete of the year.

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In February 2006, John returned to play in the ATP Tour tournament in San Jose, California, after an absence of twelve years.\u00a0 There he teamed with Jonas Bjorkman to win the tournament bringing his career doubles championships to 78.

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For many years, McEnroe worked as an analyst for CBS and USA, and he continues working for NBC at the French Open and the BBC at Wimbledon (where he does double duty, splitting time with ESPN).\u00a0 Infamous for his brash on-court behavior and outburts, he has earned a reputation for insightful and outspoken commentary on television.\u00a0 He worked for ESPN once previously \u2013 the U.S. vs. Croatia in Davis Cup action in March 2005 from Carson, Calif.

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McEnroe has many connections to ESPN and its tennis team:

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–John played in ESPN\u2019s first tennis telecast, just one week after the network debuted almost 30 years ago on September 7, 1979.\u00a0 It was a Davis Cup tie against Argentina in Memphis on September 14.\u00a0 ESPN\u2019s Cliff Drysdale was on the call.

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–John played in two memorable Davis Cup marathons on ESPN \u2013 the decisive quarterfinal victory over Sweden\u2019s Mats Wilander in 1982 in St. Louis and a loss to Germany\u2019s Boris Becker in 1987 in Hartford, Conn.\u00a0 Each match lasted over six hours.

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–John teamed with former ESPN commentator Mary Carillo to win the 1977 French Open mixed doubles title.

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–John\u2019s younger brother Patrick has worked for ESPN since 1995.\u00a0 John defeated Patrick in the finals for his 77th and final singles title in Chicago in 1991 \u2013 3-6, 6-2, 6-4.

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Born John Patrick McEnroe Jr. in Germany in 1959 (his father was stationed with the U.S. Air Force), he grew up in the Long Island suburb of Douglaston, N.Y.\u00a0 While his exploits have made \u201cMac\u201d an international celebrity, to Kevin, Sean, Emily, Anna, Ava and Ruby he\u2019s still just \u201cDad\u201d.\u00a0 A concerned and loving parent and role model, John was the recipient of the 1996 National Father of the Year Award from the National Fathers Day Council.\u00a0\u00a0In 2010, John founded the John McEnroe Tennis Academy in his hometown of New York City, where he is now working daily to develop the next great group of American tennis players.

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John McEnroe made his talent look easy, but he often undermined his skill with what became known as a \u201ctennis tantrum.\u201d In fact, Newsweek explained his infamous outbursts as coming from a \u201cyoung man who raised perfectly placed strokes to a high art form, only to resort to tantrums that smear his masterpieces like graffiti.\u201d

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Still, there\u2019s no denying McEnroe\u2019s surliness toward opponents and referees was only matched by the Grand Slam winner\u2019s uncontested prowess on the tennis court.

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John McEnroe\u2019s tennis career

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A natural athlete in high school, McEnroe made a name for himself in the tennis world after graduation. He won the first of his 17 total Grand Slams at the French Open in 1977. Enjoying his first notable success with mixed doubles partner Mary Carillo, McEnroe intended to compete for the junior title at Wimbledon next. However, his expertise won him a spot in the men\u2019s competition where he finished as a semi-finalist against Jimmy Connors.

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At 18, McEnroe was the youngest man to reach such heights at Wimbledon, and it formed the foundation for his future success. He won a scholarship to Stanford and led the tennis team to an NCAA Championship before turning pro at the end of his freshman year. The rookie led Tony Trabert\u2019s U.S. team to its first Davis Cup victory in six years. It became the first of five American Davis Cup world titles: 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, and 1992.

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The crowd-drawing rivalry between Bjorn Borg and McEnroe began during the men\u2019s singles finals at Wimbledon in 1980. While Borg was victorious, it remains one of the finest Wimbledon games ever played. Known as the \u201cFire and Ice\u201d rivalry, Borg and McEnroe competed against each other 22 times. Each won 11 matches.

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McEnroe\u2019s 1981 Wimbledon victory will forever be remembered by what became his catchphrase. While demeaning an official over a call made in his opponent\u2019s favor, McEnroe screams, \u201cYou CANNOT be serious!\u201d It was an event for which he was penalized.

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McEnroe\u2019s fever pitch continued on the cour. At the 1984 Stockholm Open, he was suspended for three weeks for calling the umpire a jerk. The athlete completed his turn at the French Open the same year with a loss to Ivan Lendl. It marked the beginning of McEnroe\u2019s downhill slope.

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Ranked the No. 1 men\u2019s tennis player from 1981 through 1984, McEnroe slowly began to unravel. By 1985, his skirmishes on and off the court cost him valuable opportunities. He struggled to keep pace with younger competitors. Elsewhere, McEnroe\u2019s volatile behavior disqualified him from the Australian Open and U.S. Davis Cup.

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With family taking center stage, McEnroe took a sabbatical in 1986. His return, however, continued to be plagued by misbehavior. In 1990, McEnroe was disqualified from the Australian Open for unsportsmanlike conduct. He continued to impress as a Davis Cup player, but by 1992, McEnroe sought a change.

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McEnroe embarked on a new career as a TV sports analyst covering the 1992 French Open. In 1999, the tennis star was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

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John McEnroe\u2019s Grand Slam wins

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With a total of 17 Grand Slam wins, McEnroe\u2019s illustrious record involves victories in the singles and doubles categories.

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McEnroe won a total of seven Grand Slam singles: Wimbledon in 1981, 1983, and 1984 as well as the US Open in 1979, 1980, 1981, and 1984.

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One mixed-double and nine doubles tournaments were won by McEnroe. His first Grand Slam win was the mixed doubles match at the 1977 French Open. McEnroe\u2019s doubles wins at Wimbledon were all with Peter Fleming (1979, 1981, 1983, 1984, and 1992). He and Fleming also won three doubles tournaments at the US Open (1979, 1981, and 1983). In 1989, McEnroe won the US Open doubles tournament with Mark Woodforde.

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Following McEnroe\u2019s ejection from the Australian Open, Sports Illustrated summed up his career:\u00a0\u201cMcEnroe\u2019s seven Grand Slam titles amount to about half of what he could have won had he bothered to train properly and gain control of his temper.\u201d

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Fareed Osborne

Fareed Osborne is a contributing writer for Sportscasting.

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