He wants to do it his way. The John McEnroe Tennis Academy opens Sept. 13, the day after the U.S. Open. The academy will be on Randall's Island, a strip of land between Manhattan and Queens.

With his new academy in New York, John McEnroe wants to save U.S. tennis, his way. John McEnroe walks onto a court at a new tennis academy in New York that bears his name, and says, “All right ...