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July 29, 1974: The day Jimmy Connors became world No 1 for the first time

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July 10, 1981: The day Flushing Meadows hosted its first Davis Cup tie

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June 19, 1971: The day Jimmy Connors and Roscoe Tanner played for the NCAA crown

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May 28, 1980: The day Connors came back from two sets to love down against a Frenchman and won over the Paris crowd

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May 12, 1984: The day Jimmy Connors was thrashed 6-0, 6-0 by Ivan Lendl

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May 4, 1980: The day Connors beat world No 1 McEnroe in the WCT Finals in Dallas

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7 months ago

March 18, 1984: The day a bomb scare stopped Lendl v Connors in Rotterdam (with Lendl 6-0, 1-0 up)

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7 months ago

March 9, 1980: The day John McEnroe lost for the second time to Argentina in a Davis Cup tie

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8 months ago

February 24, 1984: The day Connors and McEnroe finally joined forces for the Davis Cup

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9 months ago

January 17, 1982: The day head-hunting Lendl won the most dramatic duel with Gerulaitis

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January 16, 1981: The day Connors called Lendl a chicken, a nickname that the Czech would bear until his first Slam in 1984

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9 months ago

January 14, 1979: The day John McEnroe became the youngest winner of the Masters Cup

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January 12, 1980: The day Vitas Gerulaitis made his famous quote, “No one beats Vitas Gerulaitis 17 times in a row”

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9 months ago

January 10, 1982: The day Connors and McEnroe nearly come to blows in Chicago

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January 8, 1978: The day the Masters Cup final between Jimmy Connors and Bjorn Borg sparked a No 1 debate

On this day in 1978, Jimmy Connors defeated Bjorn Borg in three sets...

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