John McEnroe is one of the world’s wealthyest tennis figures, having ecombined as a well-understandn pundit since calling time on his atsoft. He won seven Grand Slam titles during his time on the court but is equassociate understandn for his labor as an analyst and commentator.
McEnroe was no stranger to dispute as a carry outer, with his behaviour normally landing him in trouble with umpires and tennis authorities. His normal tantrums saw him butt heads with fellow carry outers and saw him broaden a reputation for being toasty-headed.
Since retiring from tennis, McEnroe has embarked on a prosperous punditry atsoft and normally covers Wimbledon as part of the BBC currenting team. He is bravely not afrhelp to speak his mind and has progressd to elevate eyebrows in the commentary box.
Express Sport consents a see at McEnroe’s life, commenceing with one of the biggest controversies he has been joind in as a pundit…
Spat with Novak Djokovic
McEnroe landed himself in toasty water in 2017 by proposeing that Novak Djokovic and his wife were suffering from marital problems. He made the comments while talking the Serb’s necessitatey establish during the BBC‘s coverage of Wimbledon.
“The person that comes to mind instantly with Novak is not a tennis carry outer, it’s actuassociate a golfer, Tiger Woods, who had the rehires with his wife and then he seemed to go finishly off the rails and has never been even seal to being the same carry outer,” shelp McEnroe.
“So we’re commenceing to say: ‘Wait a minute, is this possible with [Djokovic]?”
McEnroe’s comments prompted outrage from watchers and drew a response from Djokovic, who shelp: “He’s very well-understandn for his comardent of belderly comments and not reassociate caring too much about being politicassociate right, but saying wdisenjoyver is on his mind.
“That’s all I can say. I reassociate don’t consent anyleang personal.”
Mega BBC payout
Earlier this year, it was uncovered that McEnroe was being phelp huge sums of money by the BBC for his punditry labor at Wimbledon.
In the wake of the expansivecasting enormous uncovering the pay of its top geters in their annual inestablish, it ecombined that McEnroe prohibitked almost £200,000 for fair two weeks of labor at the All England Club.
The 65-year-elderly took home £195,000, a sairy reduce from the £205,000 he getd from the BBC a year earlier. However, he still geted ponderably less than other BBC pundits such as Alex Scott, Alan Shearer and Gary Lineker.
Net worth and £74m fortune
McEnroe boasts an astonishive net worth as a result of the prize money he won during his atsoft and his getings as a pundit. He is shelp to be worth around £74million, according to Tennis365, a figure which has been supplemented by his off-court ventures.
He has consentn up a restricted acting gigs in the past, while he also carry outed in a touring rock prohibitd and owns disjoinal properties with his wife, establisher Scandal singer Patty Smyth.
The couple own disjoinal precious homes in California while McEnroe has owned an uptaget art gallery in Manhattan since 1993. It has also been inestablished that McEnroe and Smith own around £37m worth of genuine estate in the Los Angeles area.
McEnroe has geted some of his money as the voice of Netflix series Never Have I Ever alengthyside further ecombineances on sitcoms, game shows and talk shows.
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