John McEnroe Puts Oomph Behind Alternative Tennis Academy. [View All]

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“People feel, put the kids in the middle of nowhere, isolate them, so all they can do is live and breathe tennis,” he said. “Me, I went to Florida with Harry Hopman, at 15 or 16, for one day and said, ‘I’ve got to get out of here.’ Never would I have made it if I had to do that. It would have been a form of torture. I mean, some people will say, There’s too much going on in New York. But I feel that with the natural energy here, you can feed off that.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/08/sports/tennis/08tennis.html?hpw