Smith v Connors
ATP Tour career
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Jimmy Connors takes it, 8–1 on categories
Connors wins on titles. ATP Tour career: Smith 1,074 matches, Connors 1,549 matches.
- Connors has 111 titles (one every 11.1 matches) to Smith’s 50 titles (one every 20 matches).
- Connors has 8 grand slam titles (one every 50 matches) to Smith’s 2 grand slam titles (one every 100 matches).
- Connors averages a sets lost every 1.6 matches to Smith’s 0.9.
- Winners’ edge: Connors’s team won 82%, Smith’s team won 72% of the matches they played.
- Longevity: Connors has 1,549 matches across 28 seasons, Smith 1,074 in 18 — the averages matter more than the totals here.
- Not every stat was recorded for every match (grand slam titles, aces): those averages use only the games that logged them.
Built only from games in our stats database. A read of the numbers, not a tip.
Tale of the tape
Per game. Totals and best single game underneath.
- 0.150 total · best 1Titlesper game0.1111 total · best 1
- 0.02 total · best 1Grand Slam titlesper game0.08 total · best 1
- –First serve in %65.1
- –First-serve points won %62.8
- –Break points saved %57.2
- –Return points won %40.6
- –Acesper game1.7140 total · best 8
Head to head
418 matches
since 197014
since 197014
- Carpet · 7 matchesSmith 1Connors 6
- Hard · 7 matchesSmith 2Connors 5
- Grass · 3 matchesSmith 1Connors 2
- Clay · 1 matchSmith 0Connors 1
- Grand Slams · 2 matchesSmith 0Connors 2
- Finals · 2 matchesSmith 1Connors 1
Last meetings
- 26 Jan 1981 · Philadelphia WCT · Round of 64 · CarpetConnors won 6-3 6-3
- 26 Feb 1979 · Memphis · Round of 16 · CarpetConnors won 6-4 6-1
- 15 Jan 1979 · Birmingham WCT · Quarterfinal · CarpetConnors won 6-4 6-1
- 20 Feb 1978 · Denver · Final · CarpetConnors won 6-2 7-6
- 23 Aug 1977 · Boston · Round of 16 · Clay
Last 10 games
Titles, oldest to newest.
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