“The best couple in the world is Mcenroe and anyone else”, and the other was Peter Fleming, blonde, very high, son of a good family, difficult to manage. The two took from children and between beers, outbursts and nights in the field revolutionized the double in tennis
The other half of John Mcenroe is called Peter Fleming. He remembers the first time he met his destiny. Flam looked like a Californian, blond hair, blue eyes, very high already at sixteen years old, squared jaw. Instead he was born in New Jersey, he had begun to play five years at the Millburn’s Short Hills Racquets Club, and he had soon leaving the basketball for tennis. His father worked at Wall Street, he managed his wallets for several customers, sport was his weekend hobby. That day Flam was sitting at the bar of the Port Washington Tennis Academy in New York, and one of the coaches did nothing but talk to him about this fantastic boy, his name was Mcenroe. “You should see it.” Flam remembers having thought: “Come on, he is 12 years old, how good can he be?”. He replied as a snatch, without even having ever seen this guy who continued to speak the coach: removed Vitas Gerulaitis, Flam was probably the best boy of the Juniores program, he could not be afraid of a child. However, he asked the coach to organize a meeting, so he would finally show him. “I also give him an advantage: I start from 4-0, 30-0”. They went on the pitch on the next Saturday, at noon. Mcenroe massacred him. “He was like a dog with a bone, he died his ankles and he didn’t let you go. He didn’t make a mistake, he fought five sets to zero. I went to the field with my tail between my legs.”