I was 10 years when they first met. Connors was bigger than life. Even here in the USA. And tennis was huge here back then! You could see tennis magazines everywhere! Borg also was in the middle of his legendary career... Most young people will never have a chance to experience the magic of tennis here in the USA back then...

@JimmyConnors-cy2xt

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the love and support you show me as a loyal of mine not withstanding how long have you been a fan of mine

@michaelconnor5378

23 күн бұрын

@@JimmyConnors-cy2xthere’s to you, Belleville Basher, tennis is dull and boring without you

@michaelconnor5378

23 күн бұрын

@@JimmyConnors-cy2xtI had hoped that you would have bashed Mac that time you walked up to him

The quality of this footage is brilliant

A match between these two is what got me into tennis. I loved everything about them. Their theatrics and skills were great for a 10 year old.

bothers me is Connors still no 1 for 109 singles titles plus only player ever to win US ON 3 DIFFERENT SURFACES is largely forgotten

@seltaeb9691

9 ай бұрын

It's a new century with Millennials who think life begins with them. We know that Connors McEnroe was the real rivalry, not Borg at all, yes they all played keenly but Connors & the upstart McEnroe was a war. I loved Connors, he would have loved to be playing against the Big 3.

@acemacgruber6593

9 ай бұрын

Yes. Mac likes to play up the rivalry between him and Borg, but the real rivalry was between him and Connor, and him and Lendl who got the better of him.

@gturcott1

9 ай бұрын

He played for a very long time! Amazing career

@cloak9001

9 ай бұрын

​@@FunkyShotsProductionyes it was ATP 250 Toulouse in 1989.

@PaDutchRunner

9 ай бұрын

No one has forgotten connors but he wasn’t a beautiful striker of the ball the way Mac was with his artistic touch. More of a blue collar type of player.

Great players, great champions, divas.

@cquilty1

9 ай бұрын

@PeterBrown-mz4nv Agree - they were great players, but isn't "divas" simply a euphemism for ill tempered, petulant man children?

Irish blood is pure passion and fire.

These 2 guys were not tennismen, they were actors. Theirs matches were theatre plays! The 2 greatest showmen (with Nastase) that tennis had ever known. How nostalgic I am for this time❤❤

This was when even non tennis fans watched and lived it!

Thank goodness line calls are so much better today. You can feel the frustration of players bybad calls that wouldn't be overturned. To try and droen your frustration of the unfairness of it and bring your concentration back on the game requires a very strong will.

@JimmyConnors-cy2xt

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the love and support you show me as a loyal of mine not withstanding how long have you been a fan of mine

It was Billy the Kid vs Wyatt Earp shoot-outs.

Recall as a kid was super excited in ,Chicago,to watch Jimbo and McEnroe clash...pity..Jimbo gave a walkover....

WAIT A SECOND!!!!! Where did this John Facenda narration come from?

@WobblinGoblin1

4 күн бұрын

Glad I'm not the only one to notice that.

can you do one on Lendl vs McENROE who played 1980, 1982, 1984-85 Finals and 1987 Quarters ?

@michaelbarlow6610

9 ай бұрын

McEnroe and Lendl did not play against each other in the 1980 and 1982 U.S. Open Men's Singles Final. I realize, of course, that you didn't mean to indicate that they did, but the way you worded your comment wrongly indicates that they played against each other in those two finals at the U.S. Open.

insane nonsensical video. random clips, no narrative, ridiculous.

@pommac10

5 ай бұрын

Yea, kind of flimsy..?

@crowekiddboisey6789

5 ай бұрын

completely agree

@crowekiddboisey6789

5 ай бұрын

a total joke

Jimmy Connors was the tennis player who turned tennis into a spectacle and a massive sport. It must be remembered that tennis was an elitist sport with little coverage in the media. Connors' arrival in tennis was essential for this sport, since his irreverent and provocative style infected the young public of that time, becoming a character loved and hated at the same time, generating the effect of competition and rivalries outside and inside the tennis court, something that tennis needed to become a mass sport and attractive to television stations. Its importance as the catalyst that changed tennis forever is really little recognized!!

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Two reasons why I watch the game

@JimmyConnors-cy2xt

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the love and support you show me as a loyal of mine not withstanding how long have you been a fan of mine

This doesn’t tell me anything. They were both great players in their own ways .

@crowekiddboisey6789

5 ай бұрын

right....what did this vid tell you?? eF all is what..... Brutal

McEnroe 1984 season, he was unbelievable , the following season , I don't think he won a grand slam again Becker, edberg wilander, lendl just took over a period he should of dominated in the late 80s then agassi and Sampras

@halfwaydecent6842

9 ай бұрын

Mac should've won the French in '84 also. I wish he had focused on the Grand Slam that year. A historic achievement within reach.

@FLAC2023

9 ай бұрын

Yes. It was unbelievable indeed. But he was never the legend that Connors and Borg were in the 70s... although Jimmy had his own tour for several years...

@redd605

9 ай бұрын

@@FLAC2023 is that why he conners had so many tour titles as you said own tour ,or are those victory not counted to his 109

@FLAC2023

9 ай бұрын

@@redd605 not really sure about that one but I doubt it. It was a different type of venue. He essentially wanted to go back to pre-open era and just create a tour with the top players. Doubt ATP would have ever accepted any of those, but I don't know really

@FLAC2023

9 ай бұрын

@@redd605 one thing I will add: his private tour was SEPARATE from the WTT, which also BTW caused him to be banned from many tournaments for many years. He almost never played the French or Australian open either... He was a monster in the 70's, he could have won many more tournaments

Real warriors and champs! Johni Mac forever!

Those were great matches. Not now.

@BruceDavidson-gl1us

8 ай бұрын

They are still great matches, better than today's tennis. All-court tennis, with a variety of shots, as opposed to hitting the ball as hard as you can and whoever missed first loses the point.

@SMSJSC

7 ай бұрын

Agree completely. Today's tennis is an utter snoozefest. There's no variety. And that's men AND women. I very rarely watch the game now. Give me the 1980s any day @@BruceDavidson-gl1us

He played the French nowhere near that often. You probably should read his book.

I loved them both then, and as they've grown older, Mac has aged like wine and Connors is just a whining old lady really. All his past disrespects, especially toward Lendl, who continually kicked his rear end through a decade into the 90s....have not aged well.

@lawrence1318

6 ай бұрын

Connors was the most important player in the modern era.

ball sports are lame.

@WobblinGoblin1

4 күн бұрын

So are the people who post about them.

Back when tennis was so awesome, absolutely sux now