Gabriela Sabatini
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Jimmy Connors
American tennis player
Jimmy Connors was a former world No. 1 tennis player who dominated the sport in the 1970s. He held the top ATP ranking for a record-breaking 160 consecutive weeks and won a total of 109 career titles, including eight major singles titles. Connors was known for his fierce competitive spirit and long, successful career, setting several prominent Open Era men’s singles records.
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James Scott Connorsis an American former world No. 1 tennis player. He held the top Association of Tennis Professionalsranking for a then-record 160 consecutive weeks from 1974 to 1977 and a career total of 268 weeks. By virtue of his long and prolific career, Connors still holds three prominent Open Era men’s singles records: 109 titles, 1,557 matches played, and 1,274 match wins. His titles include eight major singles titlesand three year-end championships. In 1974, he became the second man in the Open Era to win three major titles in a calendar year, and was not permitted to participate in the fourth, the French Open. Connors finished year end number one in the ATP rankings from 1974 to 1978. In 1982, he won both Wimbledon and the US Open and was ATP Player of the Year and ITF World Champion. He retired in 1996 at the age of 43.
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Jimmy Connors held the top Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) ranking for a then-record 160 consecutive weeks from 1974 to 1977.
Jimmy Connors won a total of eight major singles titles, including five US Opens, two Wimbledons, and one Australian Open.
Jimmy Connors still holds three prominent Open Era men’s singles records: 109 titles, 1,557 matches played, and 1,274 match wins.
In 1982, Jimmy Connors won both Wimbledon and the US Open and was named ATP Player of the Year and ITF World Champion.
In 1974, Jimmy Connors became the second man in the Open Era to win three major titles in a calendar year, though he was not permitted to participate in the fourth, the French Open.
Jimmy Connors retired from professional tennis in 1996 at the age of 43, after a long and prolific career spanning over two decades.
Jimmy Connors finished the year-end number one in the ATP rankings from 1974 to 1978.
16 Quotes by Jimmy Connors
- 1.
Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you’re too damned old to do anything about it.
Jimmy ConnorsAmerican tennis player
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I hate to lose more than I love to win.
Jimmy ConnorsAmerican tennis player
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From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths.
Jimmy ConnorsAmerican tennis player
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People don’t seem to understand that it’s a damn war out there.
Jimmy ConnorsAmerican tennis player
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But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?
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I was never part of the crowd.
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Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.
Jimmy ConnorsAmerican tennis player
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Every time I went out there I performed the best that I could and it was time to step back and clear my mind.
Jimmy ConnorsAmerican tennis player
- 9.
Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.
Jimmy ConnorsAmerican tennis player
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I would watch Gonzalez play and he mesmerized you. It would be like looking into the flame of a fire. You know you couldn’t take your eyes off him because you never knew what he would do next.
Jimmy ConnorsAmerican tennis player
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You have to remember that I played longer than anybody else on the main tour; I played until I was 40, and then played another six years or so on the seniors tour.
Jimmy ConnorsAmerican tennis player
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For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.
Jimmy ConnorsAmerican tennis player
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No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.
Jimmy ConnorsAmerican tennis player
- 14.
Use it or lose it.
Jimmy ConnorsAmerican tennis player
- 15.
Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll.
Jimmy ConnorsAmerican tennis player
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New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
Jimmy ConnorsAmerican tennis player