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The outsider / Jimmy Connors.

By: Connors, Jimmy, 1952- [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookLondon : Transworld Publishers, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 401 pages : color illustrations, plates ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780593069288 (paperback).Subject(s): Connors, Jimmy, 1952- | Tennis players -- Biography -- United StatesDDC classification: 796.342092
Contents:
Out of the shadows -- Shaping an Attitude -- Nothing would ever be the same again -- Lose like a man, win like a man -- The main locker room -- Nasty entertainment -- Love game -- Twin peaks -- Battle of the balls -- No one's cup of Tea -- The point's not over 'til it's over -- Meeting my match -- Bjorn again -- Back from the dead -- Cracks in the foundation -- House divided -- Road warrior -- Torment -- Resurrection -- Not dogging it -- A friend remembered -- Open heart -- My visit to the big house -- Passion play.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Jimmy Connors took the tennis world by storm like no player in the history of the game. A shaggy-haired working-class kid from the wrong side of the tracks, he was prepared to battle for every point, to shout and scream until he was heard, and he didn't care whom he upset in doing so. Here, he tells his story.

Includes index.

Out of the shadows -- Shaping an Attitude -- Nothing would ever be the same again -- Lose like a man, win like a man -- The main locker room -- Nasty entertainment -- Love game -- Twin peaks -- Battle of the balls -- No one's cup of Tea -- The point's not over 'til it's over -- Meeting my match -- Bjorn again -- Back from the dead -- Cracks in the foundation -- House divided -- Road warrior -- Torment -- Resurrection -- Not dogging it -- A friend remembered -- Open heart -- My visit to the big house -- Passion play.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jimmy Connors was born in 1952 and grew up in East St Louis, Illinois, learning his tennis under the tutelage of his mother Gloria. He became Under-16 national champion and won a scholarship to UCLA, but after winning the Inter-Collegiate Singles title, quit his studies in January 1972 to turn pro.He won his first major title in the men's doubles with Ilie Nastase at Wimbledon in 1973 and the following year won not only his first Wimbledon singles title but the Australian and US Open too. He went on to win eight Grand Slam singles titles in total, including Wimbledon again in 1982, beating John McEnroe in an epic final. He was the first player to win Grand Slams on all three surfaces (grass, clay and hard), won a record 109 tournaments in his career, was world number one for 268 weeks - over five years - and was still playing at the highest level in his forties.