Connors US Open run at 39

[gzhpcu]

Nobody like Connors anymore....

[stotty]

It was a great achievement but I hated the way Connors conducted himself in that match. He was over the top and too much up his own backside. The other man is a much nicer bloke and carries himself really well. No one I know who has met Connors has a god word to say about him. I did love his backhand though and his capacity to play an all round game despite being predominantly a baseliner, something down_budge has alluded to in recent posts about many players of that generation.

I think Rafa is every bit what Jimmy was and maybe a bit more too.

[stroke]

It was a great achievement but I hated the way Connors conducted himself in that match. He was over the top and too much up his own backside. The other man is a much nicer bloke and carries himself really well. No one I know who has met Connors has a god word to say about him. I did love his backhand though and his capacity to play an all round game despite being predominantly a baseliner, something down_budge has alluded to in recent posts about many players of that generation.

I think Rafa is every bit what Jimmy was and maybe a bit more too.

I could not agree more. All I have to say about that is that Patrick, Aaron, and Paul are class acts.

[klacr]

I could not agree more. All I have to say about that is that Patrick, Aaron, and Paul are class acts.

Completely agree and I can personally vouch for the latter two.

Kyle LaCroix USPTA
Boca Raton

[don_budge]

It was a great achievement but I hated the way Connors conducted himself in that match. He was over the top and too much up his own backside. The other man is a much nicer bloke and carries himself really well. No one I know who has met Connors has a god word to say about him. I did love his backhand though and his capacity to play an all round game despite being predominantly a baseliner, something down_budge has alluded to in recent posts about many players of that generation.

I think Rafa is every bit what Jimmy was and maybe a bit more too.

I have always given Connors a pass in a lot of ways. But on that day against my little buddy Aaron...that would never have happened if I had been in the Krickstein corner. Never...never...never.

[stroke]

I have always given Connors a pass in a lot of ways. But on that day against my little buddy Aaron...that would never have happened if I had been in the Krickstein corner. Never...never...never.

It should not have happened period. The umpire should have given him a warning and defaulted him(after he did not change his tune, which I a fairly certain he would not) for his antics. For Aaron to continue to talk so graciously about that match speaks volumes about him.

[gzhpcu]

Be that all is it may, but Connors really had a fighting spirit. All the New Yorkers were behind him. It was like in the Roman coliseum. He was an outsider and a street fighter, but he gave his all. It was another era, one of McEnroe, Nastase and company...

[don_budge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_91hNV6vuBY

If that isn't Aaron Krickstein at the very beginning of this video then it is surely a doppelgänger or at least a reasonable facsimile. The guy embracing the nice looking gal. klacr...go ask Aaron.

[klacr]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_91hNV6vuBY

If that isn't Aaron Krickstein at the very beginning of this video then it is surely a doppelgänger or at least a reasonable facsimile. The guy embracing the nice looking gal. klacr...go ask Aaron.

It's not Aaron. But looks similar. Aaron would never want to be in a music video.

Kyle LaCroix USPTA
Boca Raton

[don_budge]

He was a HUGE Springsteen...I don't want to say fan...but if he was to be in a video when he was younger it would have been THE BOSS.