AFP, Melbourne :
John McEnroe blasted fellow tennis great Margaret Court’s “offensive and homophobic” views on Monday as the Australian Open prepared to mark 50 years since her calendar-year Grand Slam.
The American said Court, 77, was Tennis Australia’s “crazy aunt” and that marking the golden anniversary of her 1970 Grand Slam was a “nightmare” for the governing body.
“There’s only one thing longer than the list of Margaret Court’s list of achievements: it’s her list of offensive and homophobic statements,” McEnroe said in a no-holds-barred video for Eurosport. “Margaret Court is actually a ventriloquist, using the Bible as a dummy to say whatever she wants,” added the seven-time Grand Slam winner.
She won 24 Grand Slam titles, a record for both men and women, and is one of only five players to achieve a clean sweep of all four Majors in the same year.
