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American Men's Tennis Is In Decline, And John McEnroe Knows It: 'We Don't Do Enough To Promote Our Sport' 

John McEnroe (left) chiefs the World group at this current end of the week's Laver Cup, the lists of which exposed the weaknesses of men's tennis in the United States so anyone might see for themselves. 온라인카지노

CHELSEA – John McEnroe knows two things as he chiefs the World Team at the Laver Cup this end of the week at TD Garden: His group is a genuine dark horse, similar to Army football taking on Alabama and that some place there has been a distinction or absence of consideration paid to advancing tennis in the United States. 

McEnroe's age experienced childhood with Arthur Ashe and Stan Smith. Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, and Jim Courier experienced childhood with McEnroe and Jimmy Connors. Yet, since those days, when that threesome perpetually fought for significant titles, the American male tennis scene has declined extensively. 

The Laver Cup, a Ryder Cup-like contest between one group addressing Europe and one more the remainder of the world, is an ideal model. Every one of the six individuals from the European group are in the ATP top 10, including recently crownedUS Open hero Daniil Medvedev and Olympic gold medalist Alexander Zverev. 

The World group incorporates only two American players: No. 19 Reilly Opelka and No. 22 John Isner. Opelka is the most elevated positioning American men's player on the planet, and maybe the best any expectation of snapping the United States' 18-year dry season without a men's significant title. Since a long time ago resigned Andy Roddick won the US Open in 2003. 

McEnroe, presently completely dark, his blazing style supplanted by a gregarious awareness of what's actually funny, needs to continually protect and clarify the decrease of American tennis. He was one of the most famous players on the planet, a norm for tennis in this country. He gave the stick to Agassi, Sampras, and Courier, and they prospered. 

In the beyond twenty years, nonetheless, there have been a small bunch of frustrations and great yet not-adequate American players. In the interim, Serena and Venus Williams and Lindsay Davenport thrived for the beyond twenty years, Sloane Stephens had a lot of progress, and Coco Gauff is a rising star. Yet, with respect to the men? 

"There's been a chain of command of tennis in Europe, it's a custom," said McEnroe, a seven-time Grand Slam champion. "It's higher up on the chain of command. I think in the seventies and eighties when the game was detonating [in the United States], I think it had a cool factor. You need some sort of cool factor. We don't do what's necessary to advance our game, nor do we make it sufficiently reasonable and it's not in the schools enough." 

The best American competitors once in a while think about tennis as an essential game. They're playing football, ball, or baseball. Tennis is an idea in retrospect except if it's a significant and a large portion of the American crowd concentrates on Serena's journey to break the significant record or Naomi Osaka's rise as the following incredible star or, most as of late, the mixing run of 19-year-old Canadian Leylah Fernandez in the US Open. 

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None of those storylines incorporate American men. Just two American men — Isner and Opelka — were cultivated in Flushing Meadows and Isner was bobbed in the first round. Unseeded Frances Tiafoe progressed to the fourth round, however he's as of now been on the visit for quite a long time.