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  • Connors US Open run at 39

    Nobody like Connors anymore....

  • #2
    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.
    Stotty

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    • #3
      Originally posted by stotty View Post
      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.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by stroke View Post

        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

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        • #5
          Originally posted by stotty View Post
          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.
          don_budge
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          • #6
            Originally posted by don_budge View Post

            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.
            Last edited by stroke; 08-26-2018, 04:54 AM.

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            • #7
              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...

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                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.
                don_budge
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by don_budge View Post
                  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

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                  • #10
                    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.
                    don_budge
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