John McEnroe appeared to be struggling with his commentary gig at the Australian Open. While the former tennis star has been associated with this role for a long time, he recently started receiving negative feedback from members of the tennis community as well as the fans. However, it seems like the legend has managed to turn the odds.

Novak Djokovic recently won his fourth-round match against Adrian Mannarino. While McEnroe’s predictions came out to be accurate this time, the reactions of fans took a positive turn.

John McEnroe regains fans’ trust with his predictions for Novak Djokovic

The Rod Laver Arena experienced high levels of excitement today as Novak Djokovic battled against Adrian Mannarino for a position in the quarter-finals. While everyone thought that the Italian opponent would surely be a challenge for Djokovic, McEnroe had a completely different perspective. As the match came to an end, the Serb secured a one-sided victory, as Mannarino was barely able to hit any points.

As soon as the fans came across the results, they hailed John McEnroe for his perfect prediction, along with cheering Djokovic for his performance. A tweet that summed up the highlights of McEnroe’s predictions received positive responses from fans. As the trail of comments started, a fan, appreciating the American tennis legend’s knowledge of the game, wrote, “McEnroe knows stuff!”

Another fan, shooting a simple yet positive response over McEnroe’s clear prediction, commented, “He was right”

Another fan, stating the reason behind him being an experienced commentator, wrote, “Well he was right that’s why he is an Elite commentator”

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The trail of comments continued as a fan threw a witty response to appreciate his precision. He wrote, “He was cooking.”

“He knew,” said another fan, appreciating McEnroe’s amazing sense of the game.

With these and several other comments on the same note, fans made it clear that John McEnroe has been successful in switching his image back to basics. As the ESPN commentator gave out this amazing prediction about Djokovic and Mannarino’s match, his words in the next match are likely to attract more attention.

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Thai-Son Kwiatkowski’s bold verdict against McEnroe

While fans started to lose faith in John McEnroe’s commentary recently, the situation came out to be a big disappointment. McEnroe, who was already in a situation of mass doubt by the fans, received another hit as American tennis player Thai-Son Kwiatkowski came forward to present a strong slam against him. The tennis star shared his perspective about the lack of research behind McEnroe’s commentary.

“Insane to me that time and time again J. McEnroe goes on air and just admits he has zero clue who a player is. (Today, bergs, 120 atp) just says to the world, hey guys, I’ve done zero research for my job and I’m just going to disrespect someone who’s top 150 in the world at a job,” he wrote in a recent tweet. While the tweet gave more strength to the fans’ doubts, it seems like the American tennis legend has cleared a lot of it.

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