John McEnroe: ‘Get more trash-talk between tennis players’

Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic look at ease but John McEnroe thinks players do not like each other as much as they say they do. Photograph: Adam Davy/PAJohn 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…