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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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Originally posted by stotty View PostIt 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.
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Originally posted by stotty View PostIt 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.don_budge
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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.Last edited by stroke; 08-26-2018, 04:54 AM.
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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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Originally posted by don_budge View Posthttps://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.
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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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