John McEnroe is one of the world’s wealthyest tennis figures, having materialized as a famous pundit since calling time on his atsoft. He won seven Grand Slam titles during his time on the court but is equpartner understandn for his labor as an analyst and commentator.
McEnroe was no stranger to dispute as a carry outer, with his behaviour standardly landing him in trouble with umpires and tennis authorities. His standard tantrums saw him butt heads with fellow carry outers and saw him increase a reputation for being boiling-headed.
Since retiring from tennis, McEnroe has embarked on a accomplished punditry atsoft and standardly covers Wimbledon as part of the BBC conshort-terming team. He is certainly not afrhelp to speak his mind and has persistd to lift eyebrows in the commentary box.
Express Sport apshows a see at McEnroe’s life, commenceing with one of the hugegest controversies he has been included in as a pundit…
Spat with Novak Djokovic
McEnroe landed himself in boiling water in 2017 by presenting that Novak Djokovic and his wife were suffering from marital problems. He made the comments while converseing the Serb’s insisty 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 actupartner a golfer, Tiger Woods, who had the rehires with his wife and then he seemed to go endly 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 seeers and drew a response from Djokovic, who shelp: “He’s very well-understandn for his benevolent of belderly comments and not repartner caring too much about being politicpartner accurate, but saying wdisenjoyver is on his mind.
“That’s all I can say. I repartner don’t apshow 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 huge uncovering the pay of its top acquireers in their annual inestablish, it materialized 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 sweightless decrrelieve from the £205,000 he getd from the BBC a year earlier. However, he still acquireed think aboutably less than other BBC pundits such as Alex Scott, Alan Shearer and Gary Lineker.
Net worth and £74m fortune
McEnroe boasts an amazeive net worth as a result of the prize money he won during his atsoft and his acquireings 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 apshown up a scant acting gigs in the past, while he also carry outed in a touring rock prohibitd and owns cut offal properties with his wife, establisher Scandal singer Patty Smyth.
The couple own cut offal priceless homes in California while McEnroe has owned an uplabelet art gallery in Manhattan since 1993. It has also been inestablished that McEnroe and Smith own around £37m worth of authentic estate in the Los Angeles area.
McEnroe has acquireed some of his money as the voice of Netflix series Never Have I Ever aprolongedside further materializeances on sitcoms, game shows and talk shows.
