Murphy Jensen and Jimmy Connors were among many former professional players at the Charles Evans Hamptons PCF Pro-Am Invitational (that's a mouthful). It benefitted the Prostate Cancer Foundation and took place in the East Hamptons.
There are a ton of pictures, check them out below.
Murphy's older brother Luke (right) also came
Jimmy's still working it
Rockin' the short shorts too
He even still uses an old...Read Full Story
Drawing inspiration from the deconstruction of a tennis ball, Foundation Architecture & Design has developed iconic tennis stadium and training academy for the United Arab Emirates, which is named “Jimmy Connors Tennis Center” after the former World No. 1 and one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Transforming the shapes and forms of the dissected ball into giant structures, the new tennis stadium presents an unusual design that will offer excellent facilities to not only the players...Read Full Story
Tennis has been around for centuries.
In the late medieval text The Turke and Sir Gawain , the Turke shows Gawain a castle wherein the tennis balls are so large they can only be hit by giants:
Many aventures thou shalt see there,
Such as thou never saw yare
In all the world about.
Thou shalt see a tenisse ball
That never knight in Arthurs hall
Is able to give it a lout.
Shakespeare mentions tennis no less than five times if one includes brief notes alluding to tennis...Read Full Story
Two American tennis legends will revive their long-time tennis rivalry this summer, when Hall of Famers John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors square off in a World TeamTennis match on July 14 at SPORTIME Randall ’ s Island . The pair will play singles and doubles against each other that night when the defending Eastern Conference Champion New York Sportimes face the Philadelphia Freedoms.
The evening will be a special benefit for The Johnny Mac Tennis Project, with tickets sold by the Project to...Read Full Story
NEW YORK ( Reuters Life!) - A memoir by brash tennis player Jimmy Connors that promises to address his broken engagement to fellow tennis star Chris Evert as well as his rivalry with John McEnroe will be published in 2012, HarperCollins said on Monday. The release of the autobiography by the man regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time will coincide with his 60th birthday and 30th anniversary of his last Wimbledon title, the publisher said. "A lot has been written about me...Read Full Story
The event, hosted by Chuck and Stacie Mathewson and Sam and Dot Dekruyf, costs $1,000 per person. Connors said he doesn't anticipate having a problem communicating with a roomful of people he largely doesn't know. He knows there will be plenty ...
The 30-year-old will join Jimmy Connors (1519), Ivan Lendl (1310), Guillermo Vilas (1207), Andre Agassi (1144), Stefan Edberg (1076), John McEnroe (1073) and Ilie Nastase (1044) in the exclusive millennium club. "It's been a lot of matches and I remember ...
They won a national 12s doubles title together at Manker Patten in the summer of 1964 and nearly 50 years later hall of famer tennis stars Jimmy Connors and Brian Gottfried return to Chattanooga on Sat. March 31 to help celebrate the Baylor School tennis ...
Nadal needed more than four hours to beat Tomas Berdych. If Federer is able to beat Nadal, it will be the 233rd Grand Slam match win of his career. That will tie Jimmy Connors for the most in men’s Open Era.
The match was his 31st grand slam quarter-final, it put him into his 30th major semi - one short of Jimmy Connors' record - and his ninth ... Greg Chalmers and Robert Allenby are 3 strokes off the lead early in the second round of the US PGA Tour.
As an American playing in New York on 9/11, Andre Agassi received an overwhelming majority of support from the 24,797 fans on hand for the US Open men's final at Arthur Ashe Stadium. Unfortunately for the 35-year-old, that could not carry him past ...
James Scott "Jimmy" Connors (born September 2 , 1952 , in East St. Louis, Illinois , also known as "Jimbo" ) is a former World No. 1 American tennis player.