Andre Agassi once opened up about looking up to John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, and Bjorn Borg when he was younger.
Andy Murray's former coach Mark Petchey talked about the rivalry between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, calling it the perfect balance. In an interview with Betway and published by Tennis ...
Connors was actually older than Borg but retired from the game much, much later. Borg's rivalry with McEnroe was the stuff legends are made of. McEnroe's serve-and-volley game made a stark ...
He dethroned Bjorn Borg at Wimbledon ... four U.S. Open titles. McEnroe finished with $12,539,622 in official earnings and 77 singles titles, third most behind Jimmy Connors' 109 and Ivan ...
Yet in the big picture, Connors was caught—and ultimately overtaken—by three major rivals: Bjorn Borg (career head-to-head: 15-8 to Borg), John McEnroe (20-14, McEnroe), and Ivan Lendl (22-13 ...
But just as Connors had shining moments against McEnroe, so did he have important triumphs against Borg and Ivan Lendl, two other No. 1 players he had losing records against. Though 7-10 against ...
It also raises an interesting and largely unremarked aspect of Connors career - the way he tailed off against the three titans he battled over his long, illustrious career: Borg, John McEnroe ...