Finally, McEnroe and his girl friend, Stella Hall, have recently split up. Hall, a New York model, was well liked by McEnroe's family and friends, and it pains him to talk about their separation. He looks you in the eye when he speaks about Hall. "The last two years of my life with her have been great," he says. "She's made me a better person. You know, it's not easy for someone to be with me, either. There's so much crap. You lose your identity. And the way the tennis life is, you're either not with the other person at all or you're with her completely." She didn't want to go on indefinitely being a traveling companion, and he doesn't think a tennis tour is the place to become a husband. In fact, the subject inspires him to go off on a long diatribe about the phony players and their infidelities.