James Scott Connors (born September 2, 1952), known universally as
Jimmy Connors, is an American former
world No. 1 tennis player. He held the top
Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP)
ranking
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 titles (a joint
Open Era record five
US Opens, two
Wimbledons, one
Australian Open) and 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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