"The greatest player who ever lived" - John McEnroe on Serena Wiliams

Serena Williams will retire at the 2022 US Open and John McEnroe is sad to see the 'greatest player who ever lived' go.

Serena Williams announced recently that the 2022 US Open will be the final tennis event she will ever play and it took the world of tennis by storm. Not many were really surprised by it but many were saddened by it. She's arguably the greatest tennis player of all time and John McEnroe certainly agrees:

"You can look at the accomplishments, she has the Grand Slam victories. The way that she moves the needle when she plays, it's like Tiger Woods and golf. When she plays, it's a whole different story. Off the court, I don't know [her] as well, I know that she's had a lot of difficulties in her life that she talks about in her own documentaries, but she has come out the other end as this icon, global superstar."

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He continued:

"Her story alone, what she represents as someone who's an African-American girl who came from a tough situation, and became the greatest player that ever lived. What that represents for us, and maybe around the world, is an opportunity that it can happen to anyone potentially."