How in the hell Connors wrestled back control of this match, down 4-5 and at a set point for Lendl is incredible. The guy is in physical pain (foot) and is sick (stomach) and just hangs in and guts those games out , hitting some amazing winners right in the corners with all that pressure. As Tony Trabert commented, "That game has a lot of heart".
It can't be forgotten that Lendl was famously the biggest choker in tennis at the time. He lost all his early big matches, often blowing leads in key matches too, sometimes even losing to people he was really supposed to beat like Noah at the French, baby Wilander at the French, or Wilander on grass at the Australian, etc.. He was basically the male Jana Novotna until 84 or 85 anyway. So that plays a huge role too, but it still was an incredible effort by Connors.
Connors is surely among the Top Ten "All-Time New York" pro athletes. The older he got, especially, the more he worked the NY crowd to his advantage. (Which is OK, it's gamesmanship.) A lesser player would've just gone easily into the night vs. Krickstein in 1991. If it were measurable, Connors "wore the U.S. colors" far better against the European titans such as Borg and Lendl than did, say, McEnroe. Junior, IMO, rarely if ever gave a rip about having the crowd on his side. About the only time I remember McEnroe really feeding off the crowd was the 1982 Davis Cup match against Wilander in St. Louis.
@MUFC Who gives a shit? Soccer is an ugly sport compared to tennis; soccer fans are uncivilized violent drunken assholes and soccer is boring as hell to watch for any longer than 2 minutes. Enjoy your soccer with the rest of the slovenly deadbeats of the world. I'll be long dead by 2100 A.D. so I guess I'll never know if what you say is true.
Lendl connaît une grande défaillance physique sur la fin du 3 iem set ,il semble alors très amaigri, avoir perdu plusieurs kilos par rapport au début du match ...cela se produira aussi dans sa finale perdu contre Wilander à Roland Garros 85 ...
Lendl a clairement peur de gagner sur la balle de 2 sets à 1 en sa faveur. Il est remarquable de voir comment Connors, toujours prêt à boxer la balle, en profite pour faire basculer le match. Le tchèque finit le match avec une attitude statique et attentiste, fréquente chez lui au début des 80' lorsqu'il ne maîtrisait plus la situation. L'autre exemple célèbre reste sa défaite face à Chang à Roland-Garros en 89'.
@@vincentd5446 contre Svensson il s'est blessé dans le 2è set je crois par contre y a le 1/8 de finale à Roland contre Wilander ou il baisse les bras au 5è
How did Connors ever play with the Wilson T-2000? It had a tiny lollipop head, trampoline effect stringing, an RA under 40 and was made of steel. Unbelievable!
He had among the best eye hand coordination in the history of the sport and drove mainly through the ball, sometimes with mild slice. His precision was phenomenal. Proof that there is more than one way to win a tennis match, not every shot needs ungodly topspin.
has a linesman ever yelled back at a player ? if i was calling lines, and a player yelled at me, i would yell right back. that is not something that should be tolerated.
Yep, Jimmy had no time for being politically correct - he's trying to win a tennis match. Good for him. Probably would be penalized point, set and match if he said it these days.
He wouldn't get passed everytime, he hit the ball so flat, it came in very low and fast, the perfect ball to charge in. He was past his tennis prime here but was still incredible. 109 singles title wins. Connors is no. 1 , Federer is no. 2 with 103 . If connors could have found a larger size racket much sooner, he definitely could have won more in his tennis twilight.
Mais à partir de fin 85 il ne connaîtra plus ce genre d effondrement....avec alors une capacité à toujours demeurer très performant même après 4 ou 5 h de jeu
Connors won the match in that 3d set - that was such a mentally difficult set with so much pressure. Lendl is up 5-3 serving and had a set point which Connors saves, then breaks his serve and reels off 4 straight games to win the set. Lendl knew at that point that he was just not good enough, mentally, to beat Jimmy Connors. And this is a good 5 years past the end of Connors' prime and Lendl is 23 years old. Amazing. The 4th set was an embarrassment - Lendl simply gave up. The lack of effort threw Connors off a few times, but he played through it and wiped the court with fuckhead to win his 5th Open. What did Lendl say for himself after this match ?
@tennsmoothie.... ''Lendl is up 5-3 serving and had a set point which Connors saves'' ... It wasn't 5-3 that Lendl served for the 3rd set... It was 5-4.That error was also made by Tony Trabert @42:46 as well... and Connors didn't 'save it'.It was a pitiful double fault from Lendl into the net that blew his chances.For Lendl to lose the next 10 games was absolutely disgraceful against a limping Connors who also had diarrhea was nothing short of pathetic.He simply gave up in the 4th set.
En 83 Lendl encore trop irrégulier pour battre Connors,en 85 c est un autre joueur,il écrasera le même Connors en demi finale,juste en gestion de match...
Connors toughness under the pressure of that 3d set simply broke Lendl, mentally. These people who rate Lendl and Agassi ahead of Jimmy all-time must have never seen the guy play.
c'était récurant chez lui jusqu'en 83 A partir de la finale de Roland en 84 et surtout la demi de l'US Open 84 contre Cash ça ne l'était plus du tout !
At least from my point of view, there were so many fixed-calls favored to Connors contained in the match including the Connors' last forehand return at the match point. Still, fixed-calls were fewer than the previous year (in 1982) though. The U.S Tennis Association knows how to organize/create/manipulate the American Tennis Champion.
How in the hell Connors wrestled back control of this match, down 4-5 and at a set point for Lendl is incredible. The guy is in physical pain (foot) and is sick (stomach) and just hangs in and guts those games out , hitting some amazing winners right in the corners with all that pressure. As Tony Trabert commented, "That game has a lot of heart".
It can't be forgotten that Lendl was famously the biggest choker in tennis at the time. He lost all his early big matches, often blowing leads in key matches too, sometimes even losing to people he was really supposed to beat like Noah at the French, baby Wilander at the French, or Wilander on grass at the Australian, etc.. He was basically the male Jana Novotna until 84 or 85 anyway. So that plays a huge role too, but it still was an incredible effort by Connors.
Lendl was a little bit of a choke early in his career, and... Connors was always a dick.
@@grantgoffin4774 That's the truth!
Jimmy Connors has absolutely no redeeming qualities!
11 SEPTEMBER 1983 , THE DAY I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER!
Cool Adidas Shirt on Lendl I remember it well ..
You know it's an old video when they say, "Seattle upset the Jets." This must have been during the Richard Todd years.
Great old school duel.
Yes.
Connors is surely among the Top Ten "All-Time New York" pro athletes. The older he got, especially, the more he worked the NY crowd to his advantage. (Which is OK, it's gamesmanship.) A lesser player would've just gone easily into the night vs. Krickstein in 1991. If it were measurable, Connors "wore the U.S. colors" far better against the European titans such as Borg and Lendl than did, say, McEnroe. Junior, IMO, rarely if ever gave a rip about having the crowd on his side. About the only time I remember McEnroe really feeding off the crowd was the 1982 Davis Cup match against Wilander in St. Louis.
Of all the big points, and chokes from Lendl, that happened prior to 38:45....this was the deciding point in the match. In my opinion.
Nice picture quality. The other uploads of this match have been pretty bad, but this one is quite nice.
@MUFC Who gives a shit?
Soccer is an ugly sport compared to tennis; soccer fans are uncivilized violent drunken assholes and soccer is boring as hell to watch for any longer than 2 minutes. Enjoy your soccer with the rest of the slovenly deadbeats of the world. I'll be long dead by 2100 A.D. so I guess I'll never know if what you say is true.
Quels passings de revers ! Bon, là, il n'y a que Jimbo qui monte, pour niveler un peu: quelle intelligence, à bientôt 32 ans !
This game looks fast, like today's matches.
Lendl connaît une grande défaillance physique sur la fin du 3 iem set ,il semble alors très amaigri, avoir perdu plusieurs kilos par rapport au début du match ...cela se produira aussi dans sa finale perdu contre Wilander à Roland Garros 85 ...
It looked like Lendl wore himself out by running too much unnecessarily
what could be possible for Jimbo with a slightly better serve!
Exactly. His serve lacked velocity.
Lendl a clairement peur de gagner sur la balle de 2 sets à 1 en sa faveur. Il est remarquable de voir comment Connors, toujours prêt à boxer la balle, en profite pour faire basculer le match. Le tchèque finit le match avec une attitude statique et attentiste, fréquente chez lui au début des 80' lorsqu'il ne maîtrisait plus la situation. L'autre exemple célèbre reste sa défaite face à Chang à Roland-Garros en 89'.
également contre Noah à Roland Garros en 83 ou il est completement résigné au 4è set
@@stephaneamady1745 oui, la finale en Australie contre Wilander la même année. Le 1/4 de finale contre Svensson à Roland-Garros en 88 aussi...
@@vincentd5446 contre Svensson il s'est blessé dans le 2è set je crois par contre y a le 1/8 de finale à Roland contre Wilander ou il baisse les bras au 5è
That 3rd Championship point was so out
How did Connors ever play with the Wilson T-2000? It had a tiny lollipop head, trampoline effect stringing, an RA under 40 and was made of steel. Unbelievable!
Ted Neanderthal With his style he exploited the trampoline effect. Very difficult to hit with huge topspin.
I have one too and still have it.
He still played with it even when the rest were playing with big head graphite rackets lol
He had among the best eye hand coordination in the history of the sport and drove mainly through the ball, sometimes with mild slice. His precision was phenomenal. Proof that there is more than one way to win a tennis match, not every shot needs ungodly topspin.
The lendl Adidas racquet is more difficult to play with. It's like playing with a sledgehammer. It was extremely heavy
3th an 4th set
Perdio solo Ivan Lendl... era la epoca que no tenia garra....
has a linesman ever yelled back at a player ? if i was calling lines, and a player yelled at me, i would yell right back. that is not something that should be tolerated.
Todays girls serve faster then connors
12:28 Nice sexist comment from Jimmy.
that was the 80's before the country became pussified.
Yep, Jimmy had no time for being politically correct - he's trying to win a tennis match. Good for him.
Probably would be penalized point, set and match if he said it these days.
Yes he did make that comment. However, that ball was in.
tennsmoothie yeah.....good for him. 🙄
quite a slugfest. connors could teach some modern day players lessons on how to attack the net.
apollos78tube And would get passed every time.
He wouldn't get passed everytime, he hit the ball so flat, it came in very low and fast, the perfect ball to charge in. He was past his tennis prime here but was still incredible. 109 singles title wins. Connors is no. 1 , Federer is no. 2 with 103 . If connors could have found a larger size racket much sooner, he definitely could have won more in his tennis twilight.
Mais à partir de fin 85 il ne connaîtra plus ce genre d effondrement....avec alors une capacité à toujours demeurer très performant même après 4 ou 5 h de jeu
Il avait beaucoup d'endurance.
jimmy lacked a big serve, his forehand was ehhhhh......... yet had a good career....
You are 100% correct.
Connors won the match in that 3d set - that was such a mentally difficult set with so much pressure. Lendl is up 5-3 serving and had a set point which Connors saves, then breaks his serve and reels off 4 straight games to win the set. Lendl knew at that point that he was just not good enough, mentally, to beat Jimmy Connors. And this is a good 5 years past the end of Connors' prime and Lendl is 23 years old. Amazing. The 4th set was an embarrassment - Lendl simply gave up. The lack of effort threw Connors off a few times, but he played through it and wiped the court with fuckhead to win his 5th Open. What did Lendl say for himself after this match ?
@tennsmoothie.... ''Lendl is up 5-3 serving and had a set point which Connors saves''
... It wasn't 5-3 that Lendl served for the 3rd set... It was 5-4.That error was also made by Tony Trabert @42:46 as well... and Connors didn't 'save it'.It was a pitiful double fault from Lendl into the net that blew his chances.For Lendl to
lose the next 10 games was absolutely disgraceful against a limping Connors who also had diarrhea was nothing short of pathetic.He simply gave up in the 4th set.
Jimmy Connors has the Michelob light of serves! Completely predictable and less filling.
En 83 Lendl encore trop irrégulier pour battre Connors,en 85 c est un autre joueur,il écrasera le même Connors en demi finale,juste en gestion de match...
Oui, c'est exact.
Lendl choker in chief.
Connors toughness under the pressure of that 3d set simply broke Lendl, mentally.
These people who rate Lendl and Agassi ahead of Jimmy all-time must have never seen the guy play.
Lendl a "balancé" le dernier jeu du 3ème et le 4ème set.
Ce comportement était récurant chez lui.
c'était récurant chez lui jusqu'en 83
A partir de la finale de Roland en 84 et surtout la demi de l'US Open 84 contre Cash ça ne l'était plus du tout !
On le comprend: jouer contre un pourri comme Connors devait écoeurer... Et en plus, il fallait lui serrer la main après... Quelle horreur!
At least from my point of view, there were so many fixed-calls favored to Connors contained in the match including the Connors' last forehand return at the match point. Still, fixed-calls were fewer than the previous year (in 1982) though. The U.S Tennis Association knows how to organize/create/manipulate the American Tennis Champion.