Jimmy Connors vs John McEnroe: Wimbledon Final 1982 (Extended Highlights)
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Connors in my book one of the greats.. A winner in 70s 80s and came back with great power and inspiration in the 90s... quite incredible..Without doubt one of my great sporting heroes.. Superb!
How about Edberg?
Compared to John.. Connors was a Zero.. John was a genius.. And even if did play with the current generation he could still win Wimbledon for sure.. Connors would have been thulped by even an above 100 player of today.. That's the difference in the skills set John possessed..
@@manoalex6575 mcenroe was a genius, but connors was an incredible fighter. He won more titles than Mac and remained world no1 longer. He also stayed in the top 10 A LOT longer. So please don't be disrespectful to this great champion, as magical as mcenroe was.
Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe both are best players in their time bro it is not right to insult both players
@@manoalex6575 Talkin absolute nonsense! Many times Mcenroe could not cope with Connors fighting spirit! He beat him at wimbledon and beat in 2 queens club finals also in masters finals! To hit the ball so flat with so little room for error shows great artistry! Some say Borg was a better player cos he beat Connors in 2 wimbldon finals but lets not forget Connors beat Borg in 2 U.S. open finals! Jimmy Connors for me the best and most exiting tennis player ever! His place in history is at the very top of the tennis world!
Jimmy holds one record that will never be broken...winning 3 US Opens, on 3 different surfaces. Grass, Clay and Hard.
love him and very sad he wont go down as one of the all time Grand Slam champions
That’s sort of a made up record though, isn’t it?
@@terrencecoccoli524 Nope. 74 Grass. 76 on Clay. 78, 82 ,83 on Hard (Deco Turf)
@@hardsam68
He still holds the record for most singles titles at 109. Connors played year round not just Grand Slams. He loved Tennis more than money and really taxed his body playing so many events. These days the top players save themselves for Grand Slam events for the money. Save your sympathy bro. He is and will always be one of the greats of all time, regardless of your little GS carve out.
SF 4 times but never won French Open.
Connors‘ Backhand is a wonderful shot! Flat, precise and dynamic..
Connors record of 109 tour titles is still standing.
most of those titles are 250points
And Djokovic will break it... now at 97
@@MiraxZorro Certainly looks that way. It would be nice to see Connors there presenting the trophy to him if he gets to his 110th title.
Jimmy Conors, my absolut favorite Tennisplayer in the 20th century...😎, Fighter till the end...
Connors was never braver than in this final.
Back when tennis was still an art form... the net play was incredible... as someone else already said, the golden years, indeed.
Yeah just so boring today! No variety! Everybody plays the same ! Anybody goes to the net these days gets a nose bleed! Jimmy could play at the net superbly as wll as the baseline! Great days for tennis never to be equaled!
THE GOLDEN AGE OF TENNIS! No other era comes close!
@@johnhughes8466 Playing devil’s advocate here: couldn’t one make the same criticism of the game back then? That nearly everybody had the same S&V approach the net strategy, and there were very few long rallies?
Some Shots And Variants Would Invented Years Later.
Two American greats on the Fourth of July at Wimbledon!
After Roddick in2009,none.
lol u people just think americans are great and rest of the world is bad😅
There are champions and there are champions but Jimmy has got it all. He’s a natural born one. A thing to behold.
The amount of racket development over the next few years was crazy to live through.
Same as Golf!
not quite as much as tennis though mate
Yes and in my opinion it really hurt the game.
@@kevinpowers9024 Yeah a lot of the touch and artistry went missing!
@@johnhughes8466Alcaraz style says it's here again.
Loved that scoreboard . So simple and clear to read . No one in the way to obstruct unlike today where the lesser score is not clear to read .
Connors and Mac as well as Borg just had to be the golden years of tennis ,
Every year they were part of the diary .
THE GREATEST ERA STEVE! Never to be equaled! I never missed a slam when those 3 greats were playing! Now I'm not realy that bothered if I watch or not as the players today all play the same game with little variety! GOLDEN YEARS THEY WERE! Connors in 74 destoying the great Ken Rosewall at wimbledon and U.S. open finals! I feel he was deprived of the calendar year grand slam in 74 due to being banned from the French open due to the french's snobbery! Which to date has only been achieved by Rod Laver (twice) !
Jimmy Connors defeating John McEnroe in the epic 1982 Wimbledon Final was the biggest upset in tennis I ever saw. I'm not taking anything away from the great Jimmy Connors but in 1982 John McEnroe was clearly the best tennis player in the world and grass was his best surface. Jimmy Connors performed one of the greatest miracles in tennis history by defeating John McEnroe in the fourth set tie breaker and then going on to win the fifth set. I think this match is very underrated.
McEnroe wasn't the best on grass at the time. Connors beat him in the final at Queens only a couple of weeks earlier. So Connors beat him at Queens and then beat him at Wimbledon. Two grass tournaments in a row. Later that year Connors won the U.S open also, and regained the no.1 world ranking. And the next year Connors again beat McEnroe at Queens on grass.
Jimmy Connors was one of the best 🎾 player in the open era actually
He was world ranking no 1 for 268 weeks in a open era
I always thought that too, then after many years I've watched again this match and i understood that Connors was playing with a carbonium racket and Mcenroe with a wood one.
Connors adapt first to new material and i think he got big advantage out of it.
@@lawrence1318wood racket against carbon racket, if they could play again 100 times with same racket Mcenroe would will all the 100 games
@@yashpaldas2302 Connors was playing with his usual T-2000 steel racket, not a carbon racket.
The artistry of McCenroe and the indomitability of Connors.
“Oh, I say. Now that really is a little bit naughty.” Gotta love classic Wimbledon commentary.
I remember very well how everybody was exited and surprised how an OLD guy at the age of 30 could win Wimbledon...😆😆
Speaking about old: back then Jimbo was an old man to me.
Now, 38 years (that just flew as if it were nothing) later i wish i was a such a young kiddo 😁😁
Federer is almost 40. Will be 40 at the US open
They didn't have modern injury rehab techniques so 30 years old was indeed pretty old.
The Golden Age of Tennis 🎾
OMG, I remember about cracking my ribs with laughter when Connors thanked the umpire for issuing the code violation. Heck, I'm laughing now. The Brit crowd loved it, as well.
Jimbo is my tennis hero, and unquestionably the best "character" the game has ever produced.
@@Sharky165 Connors and Nastase in doubles too.
Jimmy Connors is one of the best grass court player. He won 4 grass court major titles in singles and 2 grass court major titles in doubles.
Jimmy won 1 clay court major title
He won many clay court titles in his life.
He is better player than Ivan lendl for me.
Jimbo! Wins his second Wimbledon title. One of the greats in terms of tournaments won and longevity.
Rosewall is greater as far as longevity goes, but pretty close…
Jimmy Connors won 4 grass court major titles,3 Hard court major titles and 1 clay court major title which is very big thing in open era actually.
I could watch McEnroe serve all day, it's so pleasing on the eye.
Delivered from a closed stance and very difficult to read - it was one of his great weapons.
These were “must see” events, a long gone era
Correct. There was no cable TV.
Live, replay, cable or not, there are no tennis matches today that rival this for the personalities involved plus showmanship
My two favorite players to watch ..makes sense that they don't hit it off!
Two great champions. Jimbo won when he wasn't expected to.
Wow. Normally a baseliner, Connors played some of the most crisp and decisive volleys I've ever seen. The angles!
For a baseliner, Connors was a quality volleyer, far better than Djokovic and Nadal for instance.
@@martydav9475 lol what? Djokovic plays one of the best volleys.
@@arslaanpasha3334 🤣
Those old rackets were classic. They look like 2 for $5 today.
This was 1 of Connor's 2 greatest titles. The other was his 1976 U.S. Open against Borg.
I don't think many sports have changed as much as Tennis over the years. The game and techniques are just completely different today.
No question the game has changed a lot, but golf has changed far more. Equipment, the ball, course conditions make for a completely different game every 10 years.
Skiing has changed more
@@joelmcnultymusic i'm a golfer and i genuinely think tennis has changed more
@@ronoccc Well, that's like saying horseshoes have changed more than either.
The bats have deffo got better.
So glad he won here , in previous years being seeded 3 he had to beat McEnroe And Borg to win and it was too much . He had lost so many close 5 setters and when Borg retired he knew he had only McEnroe to beat which was a monumental hurdle . Connors won Wimbledon when he wasn’t supposed to and lost when he was the favorite . He did win open too in 82 to be number one ( who would’ve guessed this in 80 and 81 . He then won open in 83 at 30 yrs old to cap off his great career as a legend .
People can throw all the stones they want, but Connors is the most exciting player to EVER swing a tennis racket....
Len Wel
@ Len Welch. Connors turned 31 during the '83 U.S. Open.
@@colderbeer different strokes. for a lot of people federer's aggressive, attacking, *neo-baseline tennis is the most exciting. conners was mainly a baseliner. when it comes to exciting groundstroke players i think Nadal probably tops the heep for his ridiculous court coverage, tenacity, and signature banana passing shots. borg right up there, too. everyone has their own preferences.
Let's not forget that Connors cleaned Borg's clock in the 1978 US Open Final.
Then beat Borg again a few months later in a tournament final in Buenes' Ares.
Oh boy...those were the golden days......and I was so young !!!
my favorite version of McEnroe: Sergio outfit, Maxply McEnroe racket and those sweet blue swoosh Nikes. I had the Maxply McEnroe and it was a heavy tree trunk, believe me!
Had chance of tennis during lockdown. I dusted my old Mac maxply. bloody heavy. Strings like cheeswire. Nicely made though. Mate let me have a modern racket lol. ....wot a difference I'm playing well now. Lol. How he played with the wooden I'll never know. But he sure did very well.
I remember buying the max at my local sports shop for £19 quid I think. On offer. They were sold off cheap due to new modern stuff emerging at the time .....
Would be nice if I could see the ball
Playing with white balls was not TV friendly to say the least.
@@finjakke That's right. That is why they switched to yellow.
@@antonboludo8886 Wimbledon kept using white all the way until 1986. Pretentious much?...
Try watching the 84' final . Its shocking.
Try watching the 84' final . Its shocking.
Mac had a great serve!!!🎾🎾
One good thing about those days is that they didn't need towel between every points.
Climate change
Nor those special candies and bars
The way they hit the ball and barely moved around the court they didn’t need towels, neither did they need any of energy enhancing foods and drinks…i would like to see them play the way modern players play without breaking a sweat! If they can still do it without need for towel - hats off then! But somehow i doubt it…lol
The Wimbledon surface in those days was a lot faster so serve and volley was still a viable way to win a match and the points were therefore shorter hence less sweating. Plus I can’t see any shadows so maybe it wasn’t a hot day.
Then they made the surface slower to accommodate the European clay courters, and then racket/string technology changed which enable huge topspin which made it harder to volley so longer baseline exchanges became more common. Add to that the fitness of the modern player who runs for everything and the game is now more dynamic although I do miss the serve and volley routines.
The first racquet I bought was a Wilson T-2000 and it was all because of Jimbo! I became of tennis fan during the Connors, Borg, McEnroe, Lendl era. The personalities, the rivalries, the antics…and certainly the tennis was must watch!
De los mejores partidos de la historia del tenis!
I was six years old but about three weeks away from turning seven while I watched this match. I was a huge Johnny Mac fan and that 4th set tiebreaker was my first huge sports related heartbreak. Johnny Mac had this match and I equate this loss to the 2019 Federer Wimbledon loss to Novak. They both still sting me.
At least Mac got his revenge.
Wow, Fed holding two MP's on his own serve at Wimbledon 2019 is 500 billion times worse than Mac losing this match. Mac never came close to even winning this, Fed was one point away.
@@HolgerRuneFan true, wimbledon 2019 would be more similar to FO 1984
Never forget Connors fighting spirit always gives Jimmy a chance even when the odds are stacked against him! Always remember Connors artistry of hitting the ball so flat with little room for error and no other player played the game like Jimmy! The best ever in my opinion and certainly the most exiting player ever! His will to win was superb!
At least Jimmy looked pleased when he won .
Loved Conner’s what a great tennis player and lovely fella.
It is still amazing that McEnroe played his entire pro tennis career without ever wearing wristbands (at least wearing one on his left wrist - his left hand being his racket hand) to keep his hands dry during his matches! Connors' accomplishment of winning Wimbledon 8 years after he last (and the first time) he won it in 1974 is still an unequaled record!
I remember watching this final with my mum. One of the best Wimbledon finals of all time.
I get the legend "Connors vs McEnroe"...but watching it, its a match full off misstakes and hardly any great shots
im agree
Yep,I was there too...
Golden days of tennis 🎾
Two players so class ! J'adore revoir ces matchs ! Thanks 🙏🇫🇷🇷🇸❤🥳
Respect ❤❤
everybody talks about Macs French open final loss, but this one obtainable as well. His best surface, and he was up 2-1 heading into another tie breaker, which favors the better server.
No question..His worst slam final loss. Favorite surface against connors' least. And yeah up 2-1.
Jimmy Was One Of the Greatest And Handsome,Respectful Tennis players of all time But Still He holds The Record Of Most ATP Titles. I Adore His Greatness
Sadly though, put the 'Bucks' before his country. Fantastic winning record though.
Men don't comment on other men's looks!!
Jay Goldman "Obediently"? She wanted to.
I consider him one of top handsome sportsmen too, though he is an all time tennis great no doubt.
He along with Becker, Agassi, Federer are all time tennis great and handsome players to play on a tennis court.
Me too Jimmy is the most exciting player who ever lived
Too good! Idols! 😘👌👌👌👌
Yeah Jimmy Connors can hit a drive volley from mid court with the top spin on it right in the corner airborne it's just amazing it's that dry valley gets usually is a winner he doesn't even have to hit the second closing volley
Jimmy Connors is better grass court player than John McEnroe actually
When Connors said to the umpire " O thankyou very much " at the 915 mark. 🤣😂🤣😂
9:15
I was 11 and I remember this
what a pleasure to see those guys again!
Their reactions, facial expressions and characters are more interesting then the tennis itself. #wood-racquets
Wonderful.
Massive backhand by Connors at 20:22.
They had some really good matchups. Both player's capable of a very good game.
Both great players 👍
Jimmy is a star
Wonderful players, my favourite 80's
Great Match Great Champions!
Great Videos.. Thanks..
How can I get the full matches ?
Jimmy is a legend.
It was one of the great matches at Wimbledon.
the best return of server ever seen......Jimmy connors
Connors, Agassi, and Novak. Hard to say who's the best given the differences in equipment and training, but those three stand above everyone else.
Folks, hitting a smash with those old rackets was not easy. McEnroe misses two in one game, and he had staggering eye-hand coordination.
Almost as staggering as his mouth-umpire coordination.
Tell me about it. I was happy when they made the bigger rackets in the mid-80s. Those extra inches of string helped me reach and return balls.
@ Elmo Blatch. The interesting thing is that since the Connors-McEnroe '82 Wimbledon Men's Singles Final was played under overcast skies, there is no reason for McEnroe to have missed the overheads that he missed because there was no sun to make the overheads difficult.
ROIDS
Those were gimme overheads , even for club level players. Mac got real casual and it cost him. He just wasn’t that sharp on this day (especially serving).
Happy 40th Annivers to these Two Titans who helped put American Tennis on the Globe, As the Red White & Blue fade so does the game
That was close! McEnroe has nothing to hang his head about after this match. He could have won it.
Connors had beaten McEnroe in the Queens Club Final just two weeks before Wimbledon that same year.
Seems he beat McEnroe in '83 at the same tournament as well.
Thanks ...great match 🎾
Этот финал, напоминает многие финалы между Федерером и Джоковичем...всё так-же непредсказуемо и феерично. Супер !!!!
В финалах с Джоковичем и Федерером всё давно уже предсказуемо ещё с 2014-го!…
So nice!!
Wonderful highlights and it looks like it was a great match. If McEnroe hadn't blown points in the first game shown, who knows...
I cried twice in my life watching my tennis hero John McEnroe...in this final and in the one he lost in Paris to the cursed Ivan Lendl...both matches incredible, gorgeous, tight to the last point , with spectacular strokes .. a tennis that is no longer seen .
Jimmy era uma máquina de jogar tênis
this was one of the most surprising Grand Slam final results to me
no,was 50%
Amazing how short the rallies were back then and how many unforced errors there were.
A great match in the history of tennis, with Connors that had not won any great tournament since near 4 years , although there was not many great points, full of emotion it was..
He won Wembley 1981, and the WCT final 1980.
@@lawrence1318 yes good tournament but less than grand slam
Fact: Jimmy Connors is the professional male tennis player with the most matches in history
Ahhhh, Johnny Mac. Legend. And, those wooden racquets 😲😲😲
Jimmy Connors was playing a Wilson T1000 racket here - one of the first not made of wood.
@@CribNotes liquid metal!)))
It's amazing how recent the wooden racquet was used by professionals.
Chris Evert won the last major with a wood racket-1983 French .so wood was on it's last legs by then.
I think 1982 was the last year Mc Enroe used wood racket...
It would be interesting for the sake of fun to make the next US open 2023 all players play with wooden rackets. That would be cool, I wonder who would win?
41 years ago today.Doesn't get talked about as often as it should this final.
Sunday 4th July 1982
My new old classic rackets the Wilson T 2000 and Jack Kramer. Thanks Goodwill for no tax.
McEnroe's racket was Dunlop Maxply McEnroe in this match. He used to play with Wilson Jack Kramer Prof Staff earlier in his career.
Jimmy the legend
Gentile omaggio di John.Tutto combinato per aiutare Jimmi
Sadly there probably are not two American men in the entire tournament these days, let alone playing each other in the finals.
Because I am an American and I like American tennis
there's sock, johnson and isner but nowhere near this level
The rest of the world caught up to the Americans, that's all.
Larry Launstein Jr After the tennis boom of the 70’s and 80’s, a American tennis fizzled out. I really don’t know why.
I remember watching this as a teenager, will never forget it as long as I live, it was the first full tennis match I ever watched and I was hooked. Still watching tennis as an avid fan all these years later. But the game is decaying into just brutal two handed cheaters mostly, so I don't watch as much as I used to
Bob Dobalina 2 handed cheaters? More like 2 handed Beasts. The only guy that has the roid rage is Novak but he’s passed all his sample testing. No one of importance is a cheater. The matches today are way more exciting. As I watched this Connors McEnroe match, I was bored as hell. There was like only 1 good rally. They didn’t even serve well. These guys would get crushed be Roger and Rafa. Like literally CRUSHED. They do NOTHING better than Roger and Rafa.
Gold Wolf, rarely reading people having so little clue. Todays matches are great, but so were the old ones. McEnroe is still playing really well and he is turning 60. Would beat many top1000 players being twice or three times older. Nothing beats skill.
Gold Wolf The reason their shots were less accurate were the rackets they used back then, not the players.
Cheaters? Wtf dude....
@@peterhammer6915 Trust me, McEnroe is great but he wouldnt beat a Top 1000 player nowadays.....not even close
Os dois foram grandes jogadores!
es todo lo que tienes que decir??
Mac knew at the end, he had a match and he gave it away.
Growing up in the 70s jimmy connors was alwzys my fave tennis player a great player and very funny too
Great Great tennis
Jimmy..my fav
Classic win for Jimmy, Jim May!
One of the great tennis rivalries...One of the great Wimbledon finals.
No denying Mac's genius on the tennis court - greatest serve and volley player in history, IMO - but god the guy always looked miserable on the court. Connors always looked like the next point was the most important he had ever played and he always wore his emotions on his sleeve, good or bad.
The following year Mac changed from the wooden to a graphite racquet. Connors was no match for him. Lendl changed about the same time, and then he invented modern tennis. The most influential player in tennis history.
🤣🤣🤣
The best.
damn mc was badass, i wished i had seen more of him
They are super
Remember this match, just out of college, and very tense, since Connors despised McEnroe ..
A suspenseful, very even 5 setter, the first Wimbledon after Borg. Unforgettable.
BEAUTIFUL ATTRACTIVE AND NICE GAME..........................
BOTH PLAYERS IS ENERGY FULL, PRACTICE FULL, TECHNICAL FULL, STAMINA FULL, STRONG FULL AND POWERFUL............
BEAUTIFUL SHOT SEEN THIS GAME..........
ON THE HOL WINER IS WINER................
Mac got his revenge in 84'. Serious clinic.
What a glorious backhand pass
The internets told me Connor's serve was slow but here it had some good pace.
No. It was slow.
He can added more juice like here, but at cost of more stray serves and DFs. His service game overall was just get the ball in and let his groundstroke talk
I remember the white tennis balls, miss those.
i remember this match and i was only 10 years old😣