At his namesake tennis academy on Randalls Island on Wednesday night, John McEnroe hastily rearranged the schedule to have one of his invited guests, Nick Kyrgios, play doubles with him during a charity event.
“Hopefully, I can teach him a thing or two,” McEnroe said before pausing and thinking twice about that. “Or hopefully, not teach him a thing or two.”
McEnroe — who back in his day was tennis’s leading man and most misbehaved boy — drew laughs from a group of reporters. But in a private interview, he conceded there was nothing funny about Kyrgios’s recent on-court comportment.