“Oh! Uh, she’s not, you mean, the best player in the world, period?” McEnroe seemed surprised at the question. Garcia-Navarro asked, why not just call her the best player in the world?

He was on NPR’s “ Weekend Edition” discussing his new book “But Seriously.” The host, Lulu Garcia-Navarro, noted McEnroe called Williams the best women’s player in the world. The thing is, McEnroe did not go looking for this fight. Expressing that opinion is a one-way ticket to PC purgatory. Any time you declare a particular gender (guess which one) superior in any situation, it doesn’t matter what the statistics, history and common sense tell us. I’m ashamed to admit I have no idea what “ intersectionality” is, so I probably need to join McEnroe in the lab where people read Salon in the waiting room while waiting to see the doctor.Īll this was laughably predictable, of course. Salon said the statement was “reductive, hyperbolic and dismissive,” and that “McEnroe probably needs to go back to the lab and work on his intersectionality.” Williams chimed in via Twitter, asking McEnroe to respect her privacy and leave her out of statements are not “factually based.” “John McEnroe said something stupid about Serena Williams (again)” was the Fox Sports headline. Why “try and belittle Williams’ legacy by comparing her to men’s tennis players?” I would say there isn't a relationship but there is respect now,' she told People.“Insulting,” is how the Huffington Post put it. In 2015, both attended a reading following the release of Kevin's book, 'Our Way.' 'John was really nice to me. However, the dust has settled slightly, and they are able to celebrate their kids' accomplishments together. But her relationship with McEnroe continued to sour as they released tell-all memoirs.

A year later, O'Neal lost custody of the children when her daughter Emily found a syringe lying around the apartment, according to NBC.Īfter battling drug addiction for years, O'Neal became sober, according to the Los Angeles Times. That year, McEnroe married rock singer Patty Smyth and O'Neal's mother, Joanna Moore, died in her arms, the report detailed. Her life took a turn for the worse in 1997 when O'Neal started using heroin. The time she spent without the kids negatively affected her and drugs became her companion, she told NBC News. Both parents shared custody of their three children after their split, according to ABC News.

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