James Scott Connors (born September 2, 1952) is a retired American
world No. 1 tennis player. He held the top Association of Tennis
Professionals (ATP) ranking for a then-record 160 consecutive weeks
from 1974 to 1977 and a career total of 268 weeks.By virtue of his
long and prolific career, Connors still holds three prominent Open Era
men's singles records: 109 titles, 1,557 matches played, and 1,274
match wins. His titles include eight majors (joint Open Era five US
Open titles, two Wimbledon titles, one Australian Open title), three
year-end championships, and 17 Grand Prix Super Series titles. In
1974, he became the second man in the Open Era to win three majors in
a calendar year, and was not permitted to participate in the fourth,
the French Open. In 1982, he won both Wimbledon and the US Open and is
considered to be the World-number-one Player for that year, in
addition to 1974 and 1976. He retired in 1996 at the age of 43.Connors
grew up in East St. Louis, Illinois, across the Mississippi River from
St. Louis, and was raised Catholic. During his childhood he was
coached and trained by his mother and grandmother. He played in his
first U.S. Championship, the U.S. boys' 11-and-under of 1961, when he
was nine years old. Connors' mother, Gloria, took him to Southern
California to be coached by Pancho Segura, starting at age 16, in
1968. He and his brother, John "Johnny" Connors, attended St.
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