Jimmy Connors officially retired from professional tennis in 1996. However, his last significant run in a major tournament came at the 1991 US Open, where he reached the semifinals at the age of 39.
He is the all-time leader in pro singles titles with 109 and matches won at the U.S. Open (98) and Wimbledon (84). When Jimmy Connors got on a roll, such as the one he rode at the 1991 U.S. Open ...
Jimmy Connors acknowledges that Rafael Nadal's style may not have been as elegant as Roger Federer's but also admits that he ...
Jimmy Connors has assessed that young ATP players no longer think Novak Djokovic is “unbeatable” and argued they sense the 37-year-old has lost his “aura” following his early US Open exit.
I started tennis 100 percent because of Jimmy Connors. My dad was a football player and a wrestler, and he took up tennis late in life and thought he could be a pro player. The determination and ...
A couple of days after becoming the third-oldest ATP semi-finalist since 1990, Stan Wawrinka secured another milestone at ...
losing matches to rising stars Jimmy Connors and Bjorn Borg. In his book, Portrait in Motion, a diary that covered 12 months starting in June 1973, Ashe wrote following a third-round US Open loss ...
Tennis journalist Guido Manco has stated that he has heard from people that the former world number one America’s Jimmy Connors is the ‘most arrogant’ in the tennis world. The 72-year-old ...
Jimmy Connors, 17, was arrested at the Canadian border on Aug. 25, the day after the wreck, where prosecutors said he was attempting to flee to. His indictment was unsealed Wednesday in Manhattan ...
Jimmy Connors is widely regarded as ... a career total of 268 weeks as the World No.1. Five of Connors' Major triumphs came at the US Open, while three came at Wimbledon. The American's only ...
As US voters prepare to cast their votes in what many view as a pivotal election for the climate next week, it's worth casting minds back to the climate consequences of elections past, writes ...