John McEnroe sings and plays Jimi Hendrix

McEnroe guitar hero

Most people probably remember 48-year-old former number 1 ranked professional tennis player and multiple Grand Slam winner John McEnroe for his tirades of terror / anger explosions. He is less known for his other passion, playing rock guitar.


McEnroe, a left-handed tennis AND guitar player, surprised the crowd at the BlackRock Tour of Champions event in Belfast (24/02/2007) performing on stage with Pat Cash, Wayne Ferreira, Henri Leconte and Anders Jarryd with local rock band ‘Ed Zealous’.

Check out this clip / picture slide show. The music is all live, with McEnroe singing and playing Jimi Hendrix’ classic “Foxy Lady” :

This funny short clip is John McEnroe singing live karaoke style :

One Response to “John McEnroe sings and plays Jimi Hendrix”

  1. RobinM Says:

    I believe you also need to include Yannick Noah who has actually had a very successful music career and also Mats Wilander who has also enjoyed jamming from time to time.

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