Oct 29, 2005 11:34 AM
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I feel really proud to be the first to write a review about this tennis legend. I have a habit of watching tennis matches of the 70s and 80s. There were a number of legends in the making. But some stood out of the other people. One of the is Jimmy Connors. James Scott ''Jimmy'' Connors was a former World No. 1 tennis player from the United States. During his career, he won eight Grand Slam singles titles and two Grand Slam doubles titles.Connors reached the World No. 1 ranking in July 1974, and held it for 159 straight weeks. Over the course of his career, he held the World No. 1 ranking for a total of 263 weeks.1975 saw Connors finish runner-up in the three Grand Slams he had won the year before. The 1975 Wimbledon final proved to be a duel between lawsuit opponents, as Connors faced ATP President Arthur Ashe. Ashe won, and shortly thereafter Connors dropped the suits and parted with Riordan.In 1976, Connors met Björn Borg in the final of the US Open and saved four set points in a thrilling third-set tie-breaker (which Connors won 11–9) to beat the Swede 6–4, 3–6, 7–6, 6–4.Borg beat Connors comfortably in the 1978 Wimbledon final, but Connors came back and stunned the Swede in straight sets in the US Open final to win 6–4, 6–2, 6–2 in the first final to be held at the new Flushing Meadows venue.After a few less successful years on the tour, Connors was back in the Wimbledon final again in 1982 where he faced the new young star of the tennis world, John McEnroe. And Connors stunned the defending-champion as he came back from being three points away from defeat in a fourth-set tie-breaker to win in five sets and claim his second Wimbledon title eight years after his first.During his career, Connors won a record 109 men's singles titles. He also won 15 doubles titles (including the men's doubles titles at Wimbledon in 1973 and the US Open in 1975).
Connors was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island in 1998.
After a successful career with several bouts with fellow players Connors retired after his famed run in the US open 1991
