Q: …John, you opened this Pandora's box last week with playfully talking about playing with her.  Every time I ask people about comparing her to the men's game, I get wildly different estimates in terms of where she would rank, anywhere from 80 to 8000.  Could I put you two on the spot in regards to that, as well. 

JOHN McENROE:  … I've answered that many times.  Jimmy Kimmel asked me a question about Serena.  I think personally, because of what she's trying to accomplish right now, I think the focus should be on her attempt to win the Grand Slam.  I don't know why they don't ask other players about this, if they think they can beat Serena, any of the top 500, or 750, college players. 

 I'm out there.  I don't think that's something we should be talking about now.  If people in a month or two months want to go back to it, it interests them, we can get back to them.  But for the moment I find it at this stage I don't want to take away from what she's trying to accomplish at all because I wasn't the one who brought it up. 

PATRICK McENROE:  …it's always puzzled me why people bring up the male/female comparison in tennis more than other sports.  I'm not going to put a number on it.  I don't think that's appropriate.  As John said, it should be all about Serena.   I never hear people say, Where would the greatest female golfer be in comparison to men's golf, how would the women's World Cup soccer team do against men. 

Q. But Sorenstam did play in men's tournaments, remember? 

PATRICK McENROE:  I do remember that.  I don't think that really was worth too much, to be honest. 

I think tennis would be even more difficult for a female to play against a male, let's put it that way.  Quite frankly, I don't think it's really that relevant.  Serena, what she's doing is amazing, it's incredible.  We should focus on that rather than what she would be ranked as a man.  That's like, Who is the greatest female basketball player?  Tell me who that is, I don't know who that is. 

Q. Right now probably Diana Taurasi. 

PATRICK McENROE:  All right.  How would she do in the NBA? 

Q.  It's an interesting question. 

PATRICK McENROE:  I'll let you ponder that one.  I've answered this one.  

Q. … as far as what you said on Kimmel, you said, Let's revisit it in two, three months.  Would it be great for the sport to have a battle of the sexes for charity maybe in the late fall or so? 

JOHN McENROE:  Me personally, this is just my personal opinion, because people have asked me this quite a bit over the time.  I think that shows you that tennis has got problems if this is something we need to do.  If you need to put together a battle of the sexes, that to me means we have some deep issues we need to deal with even before that.  So that would be like the answer to that question because I don't get why it sort of is brought up much.  I agree with Patrick, I don't know why it's brought up in tennis all the time.  It was so long ago that it went along when Bobby Riggs played.  It's a totally different time.  So much water is under the bridge, I find it sort of humorous.  I seem to be asked more.  Why don't they ask Agassi, these other guys, or guys that are 10 or 20 in the world, see what they say.  It always seems like me that's, like, challenging her.  If it turns out that this is some overwhelming thing that needs to happen in order for tennis to be successful, then we can talk about it down the road after this has died out and we'll see.  I'm 56 years old.  I like to get out on the court.  So I continue to try to play as best as I can.  Obviously I'm nowhere near what I was when I was half my age.  That's another issue.  But I still can hit a pretty decent ball.