Jimmy Connors discusses his Wimbledon memories and famous rivalry with John McEnroe
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Tennis legend and two-time Wimbledon champion, Jimmy Connors, talks exclusively to Wimbledon on RUclips about his memories of The Championships and the famous rivalry he had with nemesis and fellow American, John McEnroe.
Connors' new autobiography, 'The Outsider', is out now.
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In 1974, Connors was the dominant player. He had a 99-4 record that year and won 15 tournaments of the 21 he entered, including three of the four Grand Slam singles titles.
We need more great US players like Connors and McEnroe. Great rivals that produced some amazing tennis!
Yes where are the Americans these days??
Jimmy Connors is a great champion and wonderful man . He should be a tennis commentator more often at official Championships
Connors played with great enthusiasm. Connors and Illie Nastase made tennis fun to watch !!
Nastatse was one of my favorite players, very entertaining.
@@Brian-xu9di...
Martina Hinges sp ? was my
favorite to watch, and I am a tennis
instructor. #
Maybe it's nostalgia setting in, but for me, Jimmy Connors played during what I consider to be a 'golden age' in the history of Wimbledon. The personalities, the games, seeing the star players walk out onto Centre Court on a sunny afternoon in early July, and bottles of Robinsons Barley Water still taking pride of place under the umpire's chair! He wasn't always the most well behaved player on court and until McEnroe came along he had the dubious honour of holding the 'superbrat' title, but here Jimmy reveals what he really is - atrue Gentleman.
yes the golden age indeed
Correct s true gentleman
50% nostalgia and 50% fact 🙂
Yeah...almost all of the top tennis stars of the late 70s and early 80s, personality-wise, fit and complemented each other, like jig saw puzzles pieced together. Borg, McEnroe, Vitas, Jimmy, Nastase, Vilas, Ashe, and on and on!
Maybe it is also because there was much more space in the game for their personality to shine through? What Jimmy described as an honor might be called achievement today.
Borg, Jimbo and Mc are the my favourite players of Tennis History (also Adriano Panatta for his elegance and spectacular play).
I respected Borg. What genuine tennis fan wouldn't. But it was Connors whose personality and style of play I found most captivating and charismatic.
A true tennis fan! Adriano!
Lendl had a better win loss against all those guys
Sampras shpuld be among the favorites of everyone. Very special style player. And same for Federer.
@@dansmith9724 Borg beat Lendl 6-2.
Connors still holds many records, including the most tournament wins of all time.
Most match wins, also.
Jimmy was motivated like a
" Fiery Demon ".
@@joemarshall4226...I saw Conners
play at Wimbledon in 1984, he won
against Paul...... an American in
straight set. massacre. Cannot
remember Paul's last name, he is
still around tennis now as some executive.
...Then saw Connors in Vail, Colorado where he Lost and was
smashing the portable chairs in
violent anger. !!! Summer 1985.
Ex President Gerald Ford was sitting opposite from me, as he
had a house in Vail.
3:23
!!! Just Remembered ...it was
Paul Anacone at Wimbeldon. Ooops.
..P. S. At Wimbledon , Lady Diana
was sitting in the Royal Box just
across from my seats which were good seats. Prince Charles was not there. Nobody missed him, I can safely say.
Best time in tennis, 70’s into the 80’s.
Love Jimmy Connors…he’s the main reason that I got into tennis… He’s easily one of the greatest players of all time… 109 ATP titles… 8 Grand Slams… such a pleasure to watch play… His rivalries with Borg & McEnroe, were legendary!!
Connors vs. McEnroe the most memorable tennis show on planet Earth.
Agree completely 👌
Connors, Mac & Borg ... fantastic days ...simple!
when connors came on the court ...man ...baaaam ! one of the greatest and the most spectacular player !
Totally. Peak to peak, he's right up there with Petros, Nole and Mac imo
@@farid1406 Connors was the Roberto Duran of tennis. Total war
Honest visionary pioneer and the best ever pro tennis player for longevity 4 decades unbeatable
It was only just last year that Roger Federer broke Jimmy Connors' record of most wins on a grass surface....people forget how great Connors was...
Thanks for watching and keep your eyes peeled for lots more content :)
a great ambassador who touched our lives with a sense of joy and overwhelming effort
A great player and competitor, but not sure about ambassador. He wasn't popular within the tennis circuit and displayed a lot of self centred arrogance, even by your average pro tennis player standards
Jimmy you're number one for ever ! Italy love you !!!
I'd love to see Jimmy and John speak to each other about tennis.
I don’t think that’s likely ….
Connors,the best tennis,the most beautiful tennis ever!!!
An absolute legend of the game. The greatest warrior ever to play on a tennis court. What a ‘never say die fighter’ !!!
jimmy is the pete rose of tennis. there are other players since who are just as tenacious, but jimmy was in my prime.
The fiercest competitor, who didn't understand the meaning of giving up. No one to touch him in that respect until Nadal came. The other player I wd choose to fight if my life depended on it, wd be Lleyton Hewitt. He gets overlooked, but he always gave everything he'd got, and was very sporting when he lost.
@@michelez715 Good choices. Jimmy pointed out the same thing about these players. He also loved David Ferrer. real scrappers....little guys with hearts like a lion's....we should mention Michael Chang, as well.
This is one of the guys that introduced the modern tenis to the world. But todays tenis is super intense and physical.
Jimmy's book is really entertaining
Really? I got the hardback, read it front to back but decided it wasn't a keeper. Agassi's book 'Open' is wayyyyy better.
Fantastic read I really enjoyed it 😊 👍
Jimmy's 1974 calendar year ranks among the absolute greatest of all time led by wins at Wimbledon, the US Open, and the Australian Open. All while playing with the Wilson T2000 racquet 🎾
The older I get the more I like Jimmy. I still like Mac more and I'm glad Arthur dusted him in '75 but he gets too hard of a time I think. I did hit with the Prince Mono for a bit too... but man it was a demanding racket... just like the T2000 updated LOL. I'd love to have a beer with him.
jimmy Connors is the best.
Legend.
Jimmy was always great to watch ; - )
No great tennis player hated to lose more than Connors, even if he didn’t always show it
These players are in a way the players Id like to admire, instead of the ones I truly do which are the artists, federer, hingis, but the former are the ones that really do have greater human merit like connors or nadal who dont have all the talent or creativity of the federer's but whom by merits not given by birth like natural talent, can better themselves and challenge more talented individuals. These people who have more human virtues like fight, drive and courage, are the ones we all should admire, yet we always admire the mozarts and not the salieris
Well said...Connors was more talented than Nadal
ONLY when he old his fight made him win
Long live Jimmy Connors!! Federer is number one today but Jimmy was not only great but more entertaining.
It doesnt matter if sampras eon wimbledon seven times and roger eight............. jimmy had been the most spectacular, explosive player ever.......n
My all-time favourite tennis player of all time, ever! There are some amazing players right now, but none with the character and charisma of Connors, McEnroe, Nastase et al. I feel privileged to have been able to watch them.
+PJR1966007
And Bjorn Borg!
Mine too! I loved watching Jimmy Connors play tennis. He wasn't the most gifted player ever, but he gave it his all every time he stepped onto a court.
Can't recall any male (or female) winning a Wimbledon title after an 8 year "gap" from his last Wimbledon title-Amazing.
Evonne Goolagong made better than Jimbo, nine years (1971 then 1980)
109 Pro Men's Tennis Titles! Even Fed doesn't know if he will get there.
How Wimbledon has under 1M subscribers is beyond me
l'inoubliable Jimmy! !!!!!!
Leonard Skynard: Yvonne Goolagong/Cawley had a 9-year gap from 1971 to 1980.
Donnomercy: I can't be bothered checking for now, but didn't Serena win in 2003 too?
A true champion
People don’t realize, and he doesn’t get credit for, how much he did for American tennis at the time. He’s responsible for the 70’s tennis boom. He brought the game out of the country club to the public parks. He changed tennis, before McEnroe, Borg and Lendl came on the scene. He modernized the game. The racquet, the marketing of his clothes his two fisted backhand. We all wanted to be Jimmy Conners !
he has weathered better than MAc
Not many have done that,true but Evonne Goolagong won Wimbledon in 71 and again,9 years later in 1980(under married name of Cawley)
The days of wooden rackets , smoking and drinking before matches
Right... True real lawn tennis
A TRUE LEGEND.
Connors is better in definitive...even if i have great respect for McEnroe !!!! Because Connors is born in 1952 and give a great long carreer and stop in 1996.. Mc Enroe (six years younger) stop too early (1992...).. connors stay forever the best of the best ....The george Foreman of Racket .. a SUCCESSFUL COMEBACK IS THE GREATEST PRESENT THAN A SPORMAN CAN GIVE FOR HIS FANS !!!!NEVER FORGET THAT
he's mellowed, to put it mildly...
Nice guy
What?!
Quite the opposite of a nice guy, but a fascinating and bold champion.
Nice sometimes mean sometimes! Lol
How old is Connors? He looks better here than he did 40 years ago. Some people age well. I bet he's always avoided drugs and alcohol.
Nastase for me skill and entertainment
Am I the only guy who sees and hears Charlie Harper? LMAO!
Jimmy is one men expansive in the court, but in reallity he's much riservete in private !
whjat about rod laver
Hello Davis Cup Jimmy?
Maybe Jimmy does have a soul.
Wimbledon 84 final.
So typical of Connors to promote his own personal book during an interview about his role at Wimbledon.
leonard skynard.....Serena had a 7 year gap........2002 to 2009
Jimmy doesn't like Wimbledon, too many primitive, clandestine rules. Read his book.
SKNYRD!!!!!! FREEBIRD!!!!!!!!!!
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
I am a fan girl!
SAW JIMMY CRY AND GET BOOED OFF COURT IN LA IN 74 LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
This guy took the sport little too seriously, great player though.
Looks a bit like he might enjoy a drink.
AND YOUR POINT IS ?
Tool
The Jimbo and McEnroe era of American tennis was a most embarrassing one. Very cringe.
With all the respect,connors is a bit overrated.
+flotech66 That's absurd. If anything, he is underrated. How old are you?
No way Connors is over-rated. He was a winning machine. His footwork, guts and grunt, the backhand drive...a ferocious competitor. He never let up.
With all respect your are a plank
Making such a comment
Overrated? The man won 109 ATP tournaments and the record still stands 30 plus years after his retirement.
109 singles most ever..titles 8 majors including winning the US Open on three different surfaces(including clay) and 3 of the four majors….impressive
Him and McEnroe are the BIGGEST JERKS in tennis History...
Glad I didn't grow up in that era...
Then you missed some really great tennis from two legends of the game. None of the crap that you get from some of the players today. No grunting, no crying (like Andy Murray did in Wimbledon 2012.) they would give their opinions on just what the play was if they thought the Umpire was being unfair or did not see/call the correct play. They would entertain the audience with their antics and made Tennis what it is today. They didn't have all the advantages that the players have today - they didn't earn the high prize money that they do now. The Players today may have the speed and the racquets that help them in their games but if not for players like John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, Bjorn Borg, Ivan Lendl, Boris Becker, Arthur Ashe, Rod Laver, Bille-Jean King, Chris Evert, Evonne Gooloogong-Cawley, Martina Navratilova,etc then we wouldn't have the players of today. They paved the way for the champions of today and tomorrow. If you watch McEnroe and Connors play you will see that they play up to the net which most players today with the exception of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal don't seem to do. So again, you missed a great era for men's as well as women's tennis. I feel sorry that you feel that both Connors and McEnroe are jerks. Because they are two of the finest players of the great game of Tennis.
Connors lacked maturity until he became a father. His remaking started in '78 when he beat Borg for the U.S. Open after Borg owned him at Wimbledon that year. The New York fans didn't like him a whole lot, but Connors said after winning, "You may not always like me, but I like you." Everyone in the stadium in New York stood and applauded. Connors won more than the US Open that day. He won New York. And he did it beating a huge rival in Borg. Borg even said Connors and McEnroe owned him at the US Open the way Borg owned Connors at Wimbledon.
vccstudents So True. He always had this me,me,me attitude and when he became a father he found that the world does not revolve around him. He started to grow up and with this new attitude he was able to reinvent himself and become a better player as well as a better person. He would still speak his mind and argue with the umpire but he did with out throwing a tantrum like he used to.
Ricardo Hornitos nastase was the biggest jerk
Ricardo Hornitos
They brought some colors to the "white" game,unlike today with robotic atmosphere.
he and chris evert murdered their own baby
I didn't know Christ had an abortion. Sad. Murder. Absolutely I don't care what anyone says. Abortion is MURDER.
Great player, but I could not stand his personality, to full of himself. I have not read any books from players that have anything good to say about him, other than he was a great player.
Nadal would crush Connors.
Nah. It would be close. Nadal has great power. But if he had to play with the rackets that Connors had to play with, he would lose a lot of that power.
No question that if Nadal has to play with those older rackets he would lose to Jimbo
Actually if Nadal used Connors piece of antiquated small metal at old Wimbledon (lower bouncing etc) Nadal would lose easily. Then again if Connors had Nadal's racket and strings etc...then again why am i responding to a childish fanboy's ignorant comment?
Hmm not sure about that, but an interesting thing to hypothesise about.
I love both players, but the advantage Nadal gets from modern racquets etc is quite substantial. I'm pretty sure Nadal in his prime in 2008 to 2010 was the fitter, and on clay yes maybe he would.
But on faster courts with equal equipment I'd make Conners the favourite - maybe!
Maybe. But Nadal likely uses drugs. I think most of the top players do especially him.
Who had worse hair? Pete Rose or Jimmy Connors