McEnroe believes current game too sterile for his liking: “I’d ike to see a little bit more explosive temper see the emotions”

John McEnroe weighed in about players temperament on court, and mention Nick Kyrgios as an example.

Former world No. 1 took to Twitter to respond to a fan who asked 'why do tennis players have such an explosive temper?' McEnroe said he disagreed, since he doesn't see many players showing their tempers in tournaments: "You must be watching different tournaments than me 'cause 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,”

“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 who didn’t show any emotion, so I don’t know if any of us wanna see that”, said the American in reference to Elena Rybakina's reaction after winning her first Grand Slam. “So perhaps there’s a happy medium,” he added.

Another topic McEnroe talked about was players breaking rackets during games, a fact he himself made many times during his career: “We break a tennis racket, and then you give it to a fan in the stands, a broken racket, it’s a win, win. Is a person in the stands gonna use it?”

“I would hope that if you got a racket from Nick Kyrgios in a moment of his frustration that you’d maybe hang it up, put it up somewhere, frame it, not use it. I doubt you’d be using, ‘Oh, I’m hitting with Novak Djokovic’s racket’, which he broke in a fit of anger.”

“No, I think you’d have it like a piece of art or something. Be happy that maybe you have a racket at all, so we can both be winners. Get out the frustration, and you get the racket.”, finished McEnroe.