{"id":406361,"date":"2026-04-23T06:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/406361\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T06:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:12:07","slug":"mayhem-in-melbourne-john-mcenroes-1990-default-from-the-australian-open-is-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/406361\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayhem in Melbourne: John McEnroe&#8217;s 1990 default from the Australian Open is revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"SY2LKO5TI5G3VDGH7WFLCI5T2M\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">\u201cYou cannot be serious,\u201d John McEnroe frequently said in what became his iconic expression during a storied <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tennis<\/a> career that included seven Grand Slam singles titles and 10 in doubles.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"34KU3YLTKZAKJEEYRAQ3BYVZX4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Now, 36 years after his default from the Australian Open in Melbourne \u2014 the first in the history of Grand Slam tournaments in the Open era \u2014 yes, seriously, Tennis Australia is indeed flashing back to that day in January 1990 to remind longtime fans of that historic occurrence and perhaps a whole new legion of millennials who never knew it happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYou cannot be serious,\u201d John McEnroe frequently said in what became his iconic expression during a storied tennis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[130473,85,46,105,192046,1505],"class_list":["post-406361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-australian-open-tennis-championships","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports","tag-ten-mcenroes-memorable-default","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}