Arnya Sabalenka is the unquestioned top women\u2019s tennis player in the world at the moment. But 59 year-old Patrick McEnroe thinks she would be no match for, well, himself.<\/p>\n
On his SiriusXM radio show, Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe, the longtime tennis player and commentator took a question from a listener on how he would fare in a hypothetical matchup against Sabalenka if he was in top physical condition at his advanced age.<\/p>\n
McEnroe brushed off the question, comparing it to matching up a high school boys basketball team against the South Carolina women\u2019s team, suggesting that the boys team would win easily. Therefore, he would in turn defeat Sabalenka easily.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter to me because it\u2019s just a different game,\u201d McEnroe said. The short answer is that I was a decent pro as a journeyman type player, ranked most of my career between 30, 75, 100, whatever it was. But if you took the top junior player in the world, the top 17 year-old and put him up against Sabalenka, they beat her 6-1, 6-1 or something. But again to me it\u2019s irrelevant. I don\u2019t say that to denigrate women\u2019s, I love women\u2019s tennis. I\u2019ll watch that if there\u2019s a great matchup more than I\u2019ll watch a men\u2019s blowout match. It\u2019s just a totally different game. And tennis for some reason, people don\u2019t look at it the same way because they see Madison Keys or Sabalenka hit their forehand as hard as Sinner. Well, they\u2019re not hitting it with the same spin and the movement\u2019s different.\u201d<\/p>\n
Battle of the Sexes has been a popular tennis topic for decades from Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs to the recent matchup between Nick Kyrgios and Sabalenka<\/a>.<\/p>\n