NEW YORK — Long Island native Noah Rubin has never played a single match in the main draw of the U.S. Open, but he has beaten four-time Open champ John McEnroe.
It was almost a year ago when Rubin defeated his mentor on an indoor court at the John McEnroe Tennis Academy on Randall’s Island, and Johnny Mac wasn’t too happy about it.
“I can’t believe I’m losing to this kid, he’s awful,” Rubin recalled McEnroe saying.
“He’s tries to mess with me,” added Rubin, a 5-foot-9, 145-pound native of Rockville Centre, N.Y., who will attend Wake Forest University this year. “But after when we’re sitting on the bench, he says, ‘Great playing.'”
Still, Rubin said, McEnroe refuses to play him anymore.
“He hasn’t played me since,” he said.
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