John McEnroe says he'd rank among top 500 women following his Serena Williams comments last week
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Updated 07/07/2017 at 09:24 GMT
John McEnroe says he would be ranked among the top 500 players in the women’s game at the moment.
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The 58-year-old was quizzed by a caller on Radio 5 live following his claim last week that Serena Williams would be ranked "like 700 in the world" if she had to play on the men's circuit.
McEnroe admitted his regret over the comments, though the topic has arisen during BBC’s coverage of Wimbledon this week.
On this occasion, speaking on the radio alongside Kim Clijsters and Tim Henman, McEnroe was asked where he would place among the current women’s crop.
The transcript went as follows:
Caller:Say you got back into training again, and started training quite seriously and started practising again… and you started playing on the world tour again, what do you think your world ranking would be… in the women’s game?
Henman: 699 I think
McEnroe: Yeah I think it would be pretty low. [Laughs] I think at this particular age [it's] way too late to be able to train for these best of five set matches.
Caller: In the women’s game?
McEnroe: In the women’s game? [Clijsters and Henman both laugh] Kim, could you answer that! Oh I’d probably be in the top 500 at least. I think I could make that. The women only play best of three so I’d have an advantage there. But thank you for asking!
McEnroe made the news once more on Thursday, with Novak Djokovic forced to brush aside the American’s comparisons likening the former world number one to golfer Tiger Woods.
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