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Cronin had this little nugget tucked away in his daily update today:

John McEnroe Sr., who has put his name out there as a candidate for the ATP CEO spot, met with Rafael Nadal’s agent, Carlos Costa last week in Barcelona and has told all the top players that he is willing to sit down with them in Shanghai before play begins.

http://www.tennisreporters.net/index.html


Did anyone else pick this up before and I missed it? I can't recall hearing word one about it, but when I went to Google news, I also found this:

John McEnroe Sr sets out plans to run tennis
From The Times
September 15, 2008


Before anyone dismisses John McEnroe Sr’s bid to become the chief executive of men’s tennis — and some reckless souls have — they should know something of the man. The son of an Irish immigrant to the United States in the 1900s who worked as a bank messenger and security guard, he earned his passage through college, took night classes at Fordham University of Law School in New York and ended up a partner at one of the city’s grandest law firms, Paul, Weiss. He is still “of counsel” in its corporate department. And he is John McEnroe Jr’s father.

When McEnroe Sr sets his sights on something, he tends to attain it. And as the ATP, the men’s governing body, is set to embark on a “global search” to find the replacement for Etienne de Villiers as chief executive, would it be better not to save the vast expense — and this from a body that splashed out $7 million (about £3.9 million) on an unnecessary lawsuit over demoting the Hamburg clay-court tournament from Masters status — and appoint someone who knows more about the way tennis works than most of its constituents put together?

McEnroe Sr (let’s refer to him as JP, to avoid confusion) believes it should. It may not be the catchiest slogan, but “I believe I am the single most qualified person alive today for this job” is not bad to be going on with. “I wouldn’t put myself forward to be the CEO of General Motors or General Electric,” he says. “But I’ve spent over 30 years in tennis from all sides of every issue and I think my candidacy deserves to be treated as such.”

Full article: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/spo...cle4754276.ece