John McEnroe enjoyed his experience as the captain of the Team World in the inaugural Laver Cup at the O2 Arena in Prague, despite Team Europe prevailing by 15-9 after Roger Federer clinched the final victory against Nick Kyrgios.

'It’s been awesome to be out there,' McEnroe said afterwards. 'I wouldn’t have it any other way. I can’t wait to do this again. I mean, you feel like you want to do it again sooner than a year from now.

I don’t think any of us realised it would be this good. The key (to it sticking around) is that I think the top players are going to buy into it. And I think that anyone that watched this, I can’t imagine that they can’t think this is like a total win-win for tennis.

You’ve got to be an idiot if you don’t think this is something that’s going to be great for tennis.' Tennis Australia and USTA supported the Laver Cup, but ATP didn't support it as Metz and St. Petersburg Opens were affected as five of the six top-10 players played in Prague.

However, McEnroe thinks ATP should change its view about it: 'I think that the ATP made a mistake not realising that this thing was going to be a big thing in the beginning,' the seven-time Grand Slam champion said. 'I tried to tell them that from the beginning and they’re trying to come up with some event on their own (World Team Cup), I’m not exactly even sure what it is, but the important thing is that you take a step back and realise "Look, this is something that’s important and could be really good for tennis." I don’t know how much you know about baseball but you know Babe Ruth was this legendary figure, that’s what Rod Laver is for tennis, so to me, you got his name associated with it, and Roger Federer backed it up, that’s a really strong start and then the way it panned out.

In the end, I just found myself going like this (waving his arms up to rally the crowd), it was amazing, I wish I was playing.' ALSO READ: John McEnroe: 'I would have liked to see Borg playing longer'