Jimmy Connors

Para mi Jimmy esta sin duda alguna dentro de los tres mejores jugadores de todos los tiempos: 5 US Open, 2 Wimbledon, 1 Australian Open, 1 Master...... 109 titulos ganados ( mas que nadie ) mas partidos ganados en la historia, mejor porcentaje de juegos ganados, 5 años concecutivos terminando como numero uno en el ranking ATP ( 1974,75,76,77 Y 78 ). Mejor jugador del mundo tambien en 1982. Gano torneos en los cinco Continentes y en paises como: USA, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Francia, Inglaterra, Alemania, Belgica, España, Holanda, Israel, Japon, Australia, China. 16 años dentro de los primeros 10 jugadores del mundo, 12 años dentro de los primeros 3 jugadores del mundo!

Incredible Tennis player!

He is the third best player in his era (behind Mac and Borg). How can people rate him this high. If you want to know the modern version of Connors, look no further than Roddick. Very one dimensional game.

best of all time, at least in the modern era

No way this guy is better than the Mac, no way!

Jimmy Connors is perhaps the most talented male player to ever take the court. He wasn't the "Pete Rose" of men's tennis. Connors had the best return of serve, and the best 2-handed backhand ever seen in the game. During one 3 year period - he could literally put a tennis ball precisely where he wanted it - and with great pace. His big flaw was in never changing his game. That trait cost him several major tournaments. The only time I ever saw him adjust was against John Mac at the 82(83??) Wimbledon final when he beat Mac at the net in a 5 set thriller. Jimmy set the new standard for men's tennis and turned it into a MAN'S sport. He and Johnny Mac are the 2 best i've ever seen.

Connors was the second-best player of his time, behind Bjorn Borg, until McEnroe came onto the scene. Being arguably the 3rd best player in the greatest era of men's tennis certainly qulifies him as being one of the best ever.

Hustle player. Total jerk in real life.

Jimmy Connors was the Jimmy Connors of tennis. No one was more exciting, no more fun to root against when he was younger, and FOR when he was older. His nastiness mellowed with age. He turned it into a charming act with only the occasional angry outburst. 1 Australian Open, 2 Wimbledon's (eight years apart), and 5 US Opens, plus numerous appearences in the finals at these events (except Austr.), and even more at the semi-finals, the MOST famous being US Open 1991. That was perhaps the greatest and most thrilling tournament ever as the 39 year-old Jimbo slashed his way to the semi's, dispatching players 20 years his junior. I think by the time he reached the semi's against Courier, he had played 10 hours more match-play tennis than Courier. By the time he got to that match, the whole country was watching and rooting for the ageing master. McEnroe and Borg had better strokes, and Sampras for sure, but the King of the Court for 20 years, was Mr. Connors. Tennis viewing has declined in pas... Read more

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the best all time tennis player!!!! by far!!! no one close to him!!!

The 1991 U.S. Open match against Aaron Krickstein was one of the best individual efforts I have ever seen in sports. Jimbo was in his 40's and playing a guy 20 years younger. It was hotter than ____ in Flushing Meadows. I was never a fan of his, but I had such admiration for him after that event.

Luke warm ability at the best of times. He was a sportsman as well as an entertainer.never competitive at the australian and the french.

He was the greatest fighter of tennis ever seen. One time he was losing at the age of 35 at wimbledon'87 in the 4TH round 6-1 6-1 4-1 30-0 and then came back and win at that age,incredibile!In '84 lost to ivan lendl 6/0 6/0 at forest-hills and was losing 6/0 1/0 in rotterdam and few month later beat the french champion in the semifinal at wimbledon.

My favorite player ever.The winningest player ever(109 tournament victories).An incredible fighter,never seemingly out of a match.His 1982 Wimbledon victory over McEnroe a great lesson in true grit.Love ya' Jimbo!!

I think it would be really hard not to like Jimmy Connors. Unlike some modern-day tennis players, he had no overpowering serve to fall back on. He wasn't lightning fast. And his ground-stroke even seemed a little forced/awkward. But he was gritty and left it all out on the court every time he played. Tennis was more of a spectator sport when Connors played.

Might have been a great player but I couldn't stand the way he sucked up to the crowd. It's like he was begging them to like him. Shameless.

such a great fighter - always value for money. The times he fought back from 2 sets down to win was amazing, he seemed to success, almost invariable] with the will power alone, as no so skilled as the likes ofd mac and borg.

I always like Connors and I'm not really sure why I guess for some reason I always felt like he was a bit of a scrapper. His was also one of the first tennis rackets I ever owned, (the first was a wooden one that I actually still have!!) and let me tell you that racket was such a piece of crap. It's head was the size of a modern squash racket, and as heavy as a brick. It was just steel or aluminum or something chromed over. It looked like someone just took a shaft of metal bent it around a basketball, strung it up and Voila! a tennis racket.

Even though you are on of the best players-don't trash others in order to try to leverage yourself