![]() ![]() ![]() But what the former tennis star is not quite able to see, even all these years later, is that right there on the racquetball court McEnroe himself had been McEnroe'd. He relates the anecdote here, it seems, merely to show the eccentricities of the bizarre Hollywood family he was thrust into when he married O'Neal's daughter, Tatum. This bit of gamesmanship drove McEnroe nuts, and he lost the match. The problem was that O'Neal kept positioning himself directly in front of McEnroe on every shot, leaving McEnroe with a choice: either he could smash the ball into O'Neal's back, which would mean they'd play the point over but would risk a confrontation, or he'd have to lob it over him, leaving O'Neal with easy put-aways. ![]() O'Neal was a good player, and a fitness fanatic on top of it, but McEnroe knew enough about handling a racket This was not an invitation, however, that could be safely turned down, and soon enough they were on the court. They were supposed to be having dinner, and McEnroe, who had played the sport only a few times before, was wearing bluejeans and had no athletic gear to change into. WHILE visiting his future father-in-law, the actor Ryan O'Neal, for one of the first times, John McEnroe found himself challenged to a game of racquetball. ![]()
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