unlike Serena Williams.

@@biplav32 Two very different personalities but still two amazing tennis players and humanitarians. It's all about perspective.

vg commentator also

So true!

Arthur banged every chick he could.

Jimmy played like he bet on Ashe lol

@@michelleperuski6667 Authur junked it up. Gave connors not pace that he could use, had to create himself, lobbed, sliced, made connors love around and make mistakes. Brilliant strategy, not credited enough.

@@michelleperuski6667 he had an injured foot

Just Really Great Serve and Vollying - especially perfect the first 2 sets!

@@michelleperuski6667 It seems to me Jimmy tried to outwit Arthur psychologically rather than go for his shots and let his game speak for itself.

Yes, your right my T friend, but since the 70s, the rest period was changed, th e W C time was changed, the first aid time was changed . . . Ah, go figure? Personally, I don't think, those oldies could play, the 21 century kind of atournaments & G S, and win big, as they did earlier. Yet, all respect to them!

This is better quality then some of the 1980's matches I've seen on here.

I think it's remastered.

Jimmy Connors won 3 majors titles on grass courts in 1974 and he won 2nd Wimbledon title in 1982 actually Total 4 major titles on grass courts. 3 major titles on hard courts in open era and 1 major title on clay courts. He is bigger grass court player than John McEnroe statistically speaking

John McEnroe won 3 major titles on grass courts but Jimmy Connors won 4 grass court major titles in open era.

Jimmy Connors is among the greatest 🎾 player of all time in open era(1968 to 2023). He have been world no 1 for 268 weeks in his prime

Voir des matches d'il y a 40 ans, c comme irréel.

Nobody cares

Zaf Mo apparently 22 people did

@@deneenjeffries2768 calm down...calm down x

Anyone old enough to have watched this match gets an automatic thumbs up.

ampiciline one of the best ever

Slice serve very easy on the arm my fav serve to pull opponents out wide

Ash played chess out there ideal study in how to frustrate a power player slice shots with no pace mix up serves etc

I agree. I remember when Connors first played in Australia, he was criticised for the time he took to serve... One commenter quipped 'Connors takes longer to serve than some drinks waiters I know..." He's super fast when compared to the current players.

They are playing tennis. Today tennis became ping pong because of the racquets.

Shannon+Kyle they look like retards

Becker was #1 for 15 weeks, Connors was #1 for 257 weeks, he won 109 tournaments, a record that will possibly never been broken. Connors belongs to the Top5 players of all time in my book.

Your point ! @david Just saying Becker had a complete modern power grasscourt power game and in 1987 at Queens, Connors almost beat him

@@ShannonsCompany connors beat agassi. Who in turn beat federer.

@david true that David, Connors was a pusher, not a powerhouse.

Todays Wimbledon crowds are not far off being football hooligans. The way they shout out during play like yobbos. Is not only unsettling for the players but total disrespect for the game and others around them. All they think about are them -selfish-selves.

@@grahamd4764 The worst audience is French!

compared to those standards back then. Them doing it then equals to doing it now

The crowd is perfectly decent. Your just getting old.

We Mexicans will yell p..to to players from other countries 😂😂😂 not proud of it but think it’s funny.

That's right, but first Borg, and then McEnroe, had other ideas. No question though that Connors was one of the greats.

Ashe had the perfect gameplan for this match. Give Connors no pace and prevent him from finding his rhythm. Also hit a lot of shots down the middle of the court to cut off Connors ability to generate angles. Worked like a charm as Connors was the odds on favorite in this match and he certainly pranced around the court like he owned the joint.

@@cypher31 ya the brash Connors winking and carrying on

the original iceman..

I agree although Evonne Goolagong 1980 upset of Chris Evert was also a bit of a surprise

No, like a true human being!

Connors always had issues with Ashe's game

@@laurischlesinger6326 hdhcchsh

black power

despite this rare loss ....Jimbo was the best competitor ever

@@homeelectricco He seemed nervous and blew the first two sets badly. 3rd set showed what he could do.

@@rsmith02 I'll be honest since I didn't get to watch Ashe play back in the day. I know Jimmy Connors very well. The fact that Ashe beat him on ANY day tells me all I need to know about the authenticity of Ashes game. Oh, he could play and play great.

Hateful he was... not saying the same about the G.O.A.T. who made this game all inclusive 🙄 😒 🤔 👀

@@cldavis33 Ashe won Wimbledon, the US Openen and Australian. But he didn't reach his full potential because he was involved in civil rights.

@Gerry Berry how many times?

I was not born in 1975 but this match is really out of this world,

Naughty naughty 🦵👄👀

No question that racket technology has vastly improved the play of modern players, yet Sport Science technology has shown that today's players are much faster, bigger and stronger and hit the ball much harder than these players. This can be measured. As of this date, 5 of the top 10 men are 6'4", 6'5", 6'5", 6'6", and 6'6". The 2 best US players are 6'10" and 6'11". Height gives these men tremendous advantages when serving, and in the top ten group, these guys can move faster than the top players decades ago. Guys like Djokovic and Nadal are superior athletes when compared to legends of the past. Go back to the 60s, and tiny guys like Laver and Rosewall would get blown off the court against today's players.

@@888drpepper Arthur Ashe was 6'1'', so not small either.

I couldn’t have put it better myself.

Fontsman perfect lesson in how to nullify a powerful counter puncher player use slice short shots lobs bring them to the net out of their comfort zone

Indeed, back then the line judges were like 80 years old

People back then would have got killed today, nadal and federer would have ate McEnroe, Sampras, rafter, and other volley players for breakfast, Lendl, Chang, and Agassi are the only ones that could have probably been ok because they’re baseline players

@@taylorpack2839 Nadal/fed/djoko would still eat them alive.

@@taylorpack2839 They'd have to play with the old rackets though. That makes a big difference.

@@taylorpack2839 Ya, that's why the took them to coach themselves, Earlier players were the platform on which the younger generation enjoys

for us ? was that a mixed doubles match ? .... must have missed it

@@homeelectricco he probably means the United States

Indeed. It's just another symptom of our societal decline and degeneration.

yep, no one goes to the net anymore

Bullshit,if its clay why nadal lost va rosol,darcis,kyrgios,brown,muller

Juan Esteban Kruh Sanmguel what a dumb comment. It is green clay these days. Nadal just gotten beaten, simple.

good observation 👍👍👍

HE was a class act and died way too young. So unfair. RIP Arthur

who did u think Arthur ashe stadium was named after? it's been around way before Blackish😊

@@darellgrant8753 happy to learn this :)

@@cynthiaxwangcomedy I was wanting Arthur to win and was glad to be surprised he did , his colour was irrelevant to me .

Yes do recall it as well it was black & white tv at that time… and Connors was a “ terrific terror “ to play against …

Connors was clearly injured everyone knew it but Arthur Ashe who gloated about beating him but Jimmy never used that as an excuse.. Well he's ash now.

@@jackdoe4632 We could argue whether Connors was injured or if Ashe gloated (granted, he did say Connors had "choked") but let's not forget that at the time Connors was in the process of suing Ashe for libel after he called Connors unpatriotic for refusing to play in the US Davis Cup team. Your final comment is awful. Gloating about the fact that someone is dead is about as mean spirited as a human can get...

I’ve never heard of this. Please tell me more.

Ha! Ashe's racquet was metal and plastic. And Connor's was all metal (T2000 or T3000). Got one at yardsale and one at thrift store. Both hard the arm, but pretty good power. I prefer the T3000.

Actually the T2000/3000 was very flexible and pretty easy on the arm. I have both of them and Ashe's. Ashe's is Terrible for your arm. But yes, no wooden racquets in this match.

+emphryio That's a bit of a cheat tactic when everyone else was using wood, isn't it? They are armed with different technology. It would give them an advantage.

Alan Chong No, everyone was allowed to use non-wooden racquets. If players didn't want to use them it was their problem. Many players preferred wooden racquets. Which were prominently used until 1982 but basically vanished from the tour after that year.

1982 was the last year for wood racquets at least among the top players. McEnroe was the last hold out with his Dunlop and went to a Dunlop with a bigger head and made of carbon. And also Borg quit after 82 so that was that

It was tragic and so stupid. He died way too young. He was such a class act on and off the court. RIP Arthur

Wimbledon channel remastered this?

He talks about how he won this great upset: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/eYCAi6GLoZqo1qc.html

Roger would win for sure

Indeed. It's just another symptom of our societal decline and degeneration.

Indeed. It's just another symptom of our societal decline and degeneration.

missasinenomine case of the hare and the tortoise.

@@kiwi123467 Or the cobra & the mongoose! Or David & Goliath. Connors at the time was very dangerous. Unbeatable. Arrogant & bratty. (He later mellowed). Ashe seemed so humble by comparison. I strongly wanted him to win. Connors was obnoxious. (later I became a fan however!). The pressure on Ashe was enormous, & when Connors won the 3rd set, I left & went out shopping.

Way into the late 60s at least, they didn't sit down at all at change of ends, no chairs, nothing. They just had to stand, very awkwardly, by the umpire's chair!

Even at the time I thought he looked stupid. It was like he was wearing a helmet.

What a serve-and-volleyer Edberg was: sleekly elegant and beautiful to watch. Rosewall, Laver, McEnroe, Edberg and Sampras are the best volleyers I've seen. As for Ashe, he was a quality all-court player with such a graceful game and a gentleman too. Truly he left us far too early.

Wasn't his a T-3000? Either way, they were very powerful racquets, but hard on the elbow

Connors also choked in several moments and was really tight. Ashe also pointed this out in his book which probably pissed Jimbo off.

Never under estimate a defensive strategy more points are lost through errors than.won by power shots always bring a good baseliner to the net then lob or pass them my fav strategy learnt the hard way from a very cunning old vietnamese player who used to run me ragged back wellington nz

@@fstopmike conners was possibly injured during this match

@@kiwi123467 No he wasn't. Ashe won fair and square don't try to tarnish his win with excuses of injury.

@@kiwi123467 or drunk...I had no idea he had played this horrible..is like a different player...

Ali shocked Foreman that same year by using his Rope-a-Dope strategy. Ashe played so far out of his comfort zone it was unbelievable.

At that time Connors had slapped a law-suit against Ashe.