Gomez v Connors
ATP Tour career
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Jimmy Connors takes it, 10–4 on categories
Connors wins on titles. Gomez’s case rests on first-serve points won %, but it isn’t enough to swing it. ATP Tour career: Gomez 761 matches, Connors 1,549 matches.
- Connors has 111 titles (one every 11.1 matches) to Gomez’s 21 titles (one every 33.3 matches).
- Gomez averages 5.7 aces a match to Connors’ 1.7 — 3.3 times as many.
- Connors averages a sets lost every 1.6 matches to Gomez’s 1.0.
- Winners’ edge: Connors’s team won 82%, Gomez’s team won 66% of the matches they played.
- Longevity: Connors has 1,549 matches across 28 seasons, Gomez 761 in 15 — 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.
- 0.021 total · best 1Titlesper game0.1111 total · best 1
- 0.01 total · best 1Grand Slam titlesper game0.08 total · best 1
- 56.1First serve in %65.1
- 71.4First-serve points won %62.8
- 59.7Break points saved %57.2
- 38.8Return points won %40.6
Head to head
111 matches
since 198110
since 198110
- Carpet · 6 matchesGomez 0Connors 6
- Hard · 4 matchesGomez 0Connors 4
- Clay · 1 matchGomez 1Connors 0
- Grand Slams · 2 matchesGomez 0Connors 2
- Finals · 1 matchGomez 0Connors 1
Last meetings
- 28 Aug 1989 · US Open · Round of 32 · HardConnors won 6-1 4-6 6-2 6-0
- 18 July 1988 · Washington · Final · HardConnors won 6-1 6-4
- 24 Mar 1986 · Chicago · Quarterfinal · CarpetConnors won 6-3 6-1
- 1 Apr 1985 · Chicago · Semifinal · CarpetConnors won 6-4 6-3
- 25 Mar 1985 · Fort Myers · Semifinal · HardConnors won 3-6 6-3 6-4
- 15 Oct 1984 · Tokyo Indoor · Semifinal · CarpetConnors won
Last 10 games
Titles, oldest to newest.
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