Mackin Retires

Count Zero · Tennis legend

RE: Mackin Retires

johnnylad · Tennis legend

don't forget the bagel!

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

very good Count. I'm glad to see the site is being read (and used) by journalists, it certainly deserves it.

Salmon · Tennis legend

I was interested in which countries Mackin has actually played in during his men's career. List looks impressive -

Aruba
Austria
Australia
Barbados
Bulgaria
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Egypt
Finland
France
Germany
Great Britain
Greece
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Italy
Ireland
Jamaica
Japan
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Mexico
Morocco
Netherlands
Netherlands Antilles
New Zealand
Poland
San Marino
Serbia & Montenegro
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
United States Of America
Vietnam

Count Zero · Tennis legend

musta needed a few passports

Akhenaten · Pro player

He won some of these tournaments unbelievably easily too...

2003 Turkey #1-Leg 2

6-0 6-1 First Round
6-1 6-0 Second Round
6-0 6-2 Quarterfinals
6-4 6-2 Semifinals
6-1 6-1 Finals

2003 Jamaica F13

6-4 6-3 First Round
7-6(3) 6-3 Second Round
6-2 6-4 Quarterfinals
6-3 6-2 Semifinals
6-1 6-4 Finals

2004 Turkey #2-Leg 2

6-2 6-2 First Round
6-0 6-0 Second Round
6-3 6-4 Quarterfinals
6-2 7-6(1) Semifinals
6-2 6-4 Finals

2004 Indonesia-Leg 1

7-5 6-2 First Round
6-3 6-4 Second Round
6-3 1-0 ret Quarterfinals
6-4 6-2 Semifinals
6-3 6-2 Finals

2004 Indonesia-Leg 2

6-4 6-1 First Round
6-0 6-1 Second Round
6-3 6-2 Quarterfinals
7-5 6-3 Semifinals
7-6(6) 6-1 Finals

2005 Great Britain #2-Leg 2

6-2 6-2 First Round
6-2 6-0 Second Round
6-1 6-2 Quarterfinals
6-3 6-4 Semifinals
6-3 6-4 Finals

Sheddie · administrator

Wow !

For a long time, he played a large number of sats and futures on clay in far off places even when he was ranked 200-350, for some reason he never played that many challengers...used to go from ATP qualies to sats !!

An interesting story...during a trip to Jamaica for several sats, Mackin was drawn to face Dave Sherwood. It was an LTA squad trip with several travelling coaches, Sherwood's coach was suggesting the strategy of getting into long baseline rallies with Mackin. Unsurprisingly, Dave thought this was complete rubbish and said so (in not so polite terms) and ended up being chucked out of that squad for verbal abuse I think. He was summoned to an LTA meeting at Queens a few weeks later but the problem was it was at 10am and during that period Dave struggled to get up before 1pm

He overslept and missed the meeting and ended up being expelled from the LTA setup

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Perhaps you hit upon the real reason Alan retired - Satellites are discontinued, nowhere to get that quick 'points fix' before the next ATP qualifier!

steven · Tennis legend

Sheddie wrote:
Rob Robertson of the Herald has blatantly got his info from the article I wrote on britishtennis.net...compare the two, he wouldn't have known otherwise that Mackin had beaten Nadal or that he'd told friends he was tired of the travelling. LOL.

Hopefully he didn't find this bit of his article on bt.net ...

"At Wimbledon last year, he led Marcos Baghdatis, the world No.12 and eventual finalist, by two sets to one before succumbing to cramp and losing in a five-set epic."

... wrong Final! doh