Wimbledon Memories — Abuses

1. Lendl famous one — Grasses are for cows

2. In 1987, after getting a tough call from a line umpire, his yelling at the chair umpire , “what next, are you going to say my house is burnt”, invited the wrath of British parliament

3. McEnroes racket abuse, verbal abuses were world famous — infact, “You cannot be serious” became the title of his autobiography.

4. In the later year, Jeff Tarango slapped an umpire

5. Kevin curran was booed out of the stadium after his not-so-good-sporting-behaviour

6. Patrick cash, cashing in on his anglo-australian rivalry would abuse anything, everything on the court.

The pleasant swedes and our Indians brought the humane approach on the court.

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