--- title: Serena Williams: Colbert Grills John McEnroe About Comments description: Retired tennis player John McEnroe doubled down on his comments about Serena Williams on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert canonical: https://time.com/4836382/john-mcenroe-stephen-colbert-serena-williams-comments/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-28T12:19:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:21:04.842Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Stephen Colbert Grills John McEnroe Over Serena Williams Diss og:description: He doubled down on his comments og:url: https://time.com/4836382/john-mcenroe-stephen-colbert-serena-williams-comments/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde62a60e53b99948/6988d3a3196cf498f6040cdc/serena-williams-john-mcenroe.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: serena-williams-John-McEnroe og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stephen Colbert Grills John McEnroe Over Serena Williams Diss twitter:description: He doubled down on his comments twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde62a60e53b99948/6988d3a3196cf498f6040cdc/serena-williams-john-mcenroe.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'You Cannot Be Serious.' 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Serena Williams in Paris, on June 3, 2016 (L); John McEnroe in London, on June 12, 2016.Julian Finney—Getty Images (L); Joel Ford—Getty Images by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Jun 28, 2017 12:19 PM UTC Retired tennis player John McEnroe doubled down on [his comments regarding Serena Williams ](http://time.com/4832543/john-mcenroe-serena-williams/)Tuesday night. During an appearance on _The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,_ McEnroe blamed his “big mouth” and drew boos from the audience when Colbert asked why he didn’t think Williams is the best tennis player in the world. “You can’t be serious,” Colbert said. In an interview with NPR Sunday, McEnroe conceded that while he thought Williams was the best female tennis player, “if she played the men’s circuit, she’d be like 700 in the world.” McEnroe did not apologize for the statements, which [he said he would not do ](http://time.com/4834503/john-mcenroe-serena-williams-apology/)earlier Tuesday, and instead told Colbert the story behind what prompted his comments about Williams. “Well, we were talking to someone on NPR Radio, and she said something to the effect — she was asking about Serena, and I said, ‘Serena Williams is the greatest female tennis player that ever lived, and I think she’s absolutely tremendous,’ and she followed it up with, ‘Why do you have to say _female_ tennis player? Isn’t she the greatest tennis player that ever lived?’” “And I said, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait. Hang on a second here. If we’re going to talk about that, then you get into a little different category,” he continued. “Do they say that about girl basketball players? That they’re as good as Michael Jordan?’” Colbert shot back that McEnroe might want to call them “women’s basketball players.” And while McEnroe said he wishes Williams the best, he said he still thinks he could beat her in a match. “She’s pregnant so maybe I should play her now,” McEnroe said, adding that his daughters disagreed. [Williams addressed the controversial comments](http://time.com/4834270/serena-williams-john-mcenroe/) previously by tweeting, “Dear John, I adore and respect you but please please keep me out of your statements that are not factually based.” She also asked for privacy during her pregnancy. Watch the full interview above. 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