As the dust settles on the McEnroe default, the moment reveals its full impact: on the rules of tennis, on the officials who enforced them, and on the man at the centre of it all. John McEnroe looks back on that fateful January 1990 day with a mix of regret and love — of the game that shaped him as much as it was shaped by him.

Featuring (alphabetically): Gerry Armstrong, Peter Bellinger, Pat Cash, Jim Courier, Tim Henman, Di Larkin, John McEnroe, Patrick McEnroe, Paul McNamee, Mark Petchey, Barbara Schett, Sam Smith, and Todd Woodbridge.

Writer and editor: Lochlainn Harte
Narrator and producer: Jon Hoevenaars
Supervising producer: Adrian Houghton
Executive producer: Xavier Muhlebach

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2026-05-10 30 min

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