He is the all-time leader in pro singles titles with 109 and matches won at the U.S. Open (98) and Wimbledon (84). When Jimmy Connors got on a roll, such as the one he rode at the 1991 U.S. Open ...

Jimmy Connors Saved My Life. Jimmy never was much of a reader, and he famously got in trouble during one year at UCLA for handing in a term paper that had been run off on a mimeograph machine.