It includes footage of the three violations which were intimidating a lineswoman, smashing a racquet, and swearing at the tournament referee. The Australian Open posted a video of the incident on YouTube in 2014. In You Cannot Be Serious, he revealed that he was unaware of a recent rule change that effectively reduced the number of violations for disqualification from 4 to 3. In 1990, McEnroe was defaulted out of the singles draw of the tournament for incurring three code violations. In fact, McEnroe only played the Australian Open a total of three times in his career. That fact illustrates how many of the top players rarely played down under due to unfortunate scheduling over the holidays as well as the lengthy travel time. It was only the second time that he had played that tournament. McEnroe wrote about the episode in his autobiography, You Cannot Be Serious. It was due to a combination of reprehensible behavior and a fundamental misunderstanding of one of the rules. Today we are traveling back to 1990 to revisit a time when John McEnroe was defaulted out of the Australian Open. This site regularly highlights instances of players that don’t have a firm grasp of the rules of the game. One downside of playing professional tennis in the modern era (or so I am told) is that lapses of judgement are recorded and amplified on social media for posterity.
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