Among the great champions of the 1970s, Vitas Gerulaitis was also one of the most beloved. However, his life was tragically ...

Andre Agassi once opened up about looking up to John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, and Bjorn Borg when he was younger. However, Agassi revealed that he found it easier to root for Borg rather than his ...

Bjorn Borg reached the U.S. Open final four times ... those years was 1975 B.C. (Before Confidence: Borg lived under Jimmy Connors’ thumb until the spring of 1976), which explains why Connors ...

When Jimmy Connors got on a roll ... Three times he lost in the finals, to Arthur Ashe in 1975 and to Bjorn Borg in 1977 and 1978. The 1977 defeat to Borg was an exceptional match, with Connors ...

We start our men’s countdown with Bjorn Borg’s rivalry against the other great American player of the 1970s and ’80s, Jimmy Connors. Borg’s epic battles against McEnroe tend to obscure the fact that ...

The outstanding example was 1977, when you could make a pretty good case for Guillermo Vilas, Jimmy Connors, or Bjorn Borg being the top player. Connors was “official” year-end No. 1 (on the ...

Jimmy Connors ... after the retirement of his great rival Björn Borg. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1998. Connors has been engaged to Chris Evert, with whom ...

It can't be true, but it is. He's got more Grand Slams than McEnroe and Jimmy Connors, Bjorn Borg and Ivan Lendl, Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall. You name them, and he has beaten them, at least in the ...