Evert responds to McEnroe notion of tennis needing more characters: "Changing one's nature or temperament? I've always had a problem with that"

Chris Evert doesn't agree with John McEnroe that tennis needs more temperamental personalities because in her mind that's simply not true.

McEnroe has always maintained that Nick Kyrgios is good at tennis due to the way he is. Besides being an excellent player he's also very relatable to tennis fans which is why so many like him. McEnroe always maintained that the sport would benefit from having more players like him but Chris Evert doesn't necessarily agree.

McEnroe explained his point:

“You must be watching different tournaments than me because I don’t see many players having meltdowns at all. And I know something about meltdowns, my past experience, and I’ve seen a couple of players, obviously Nick Kyrgios comes to mind having meltdowns on a pretty regular basis, but for the most part, tennis players are incredibly well behaved, maybe too well behaved in my book."

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He added:

"I’d like to see a little bit more explosive temper, see the emotions, wear it on their sleeve, there’s a handful of people you see that, but I just saw someone win Wimbledon on the girl’s side (Rybakina) who didn’t show any emotion, so I don’t know if any of us wanna see that."

Evert responded:

"Personalities are great… but changing one’s nature or temperament for the sake of entertaining? Always had a problem with that!."

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