Tanner v Connors
ATP Tour career
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Jimmy Connors takes it, 9–0 on categories
Connors wins on titles. ATP Tour career: Tanner 874 matches, Connors 1,549 matches.
- Connors has 111 titles (one every 11.1 matches) to Tanner’s 15 titles (one every 33.3 matches).
- Connors has 8 grand slam titles (one every 50 matches) to Tanner’s 1 grand slam title (one every 100 matches).
- Connors averages a sets lost every 1.6 matches to Tanner’s 0.9.
- Winners’ edge: Connors’s team won 82%, Tanner’s team won 66% of the matches they played.
- Longevity: Connors has 1,549 matches across 28 seasons, Tanner 874 in 17 — 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.
- 0.015 total · best 1Titlesper game0.1111 total · best 1
- 0.01 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
421 matches
since 197117
since 197117
- Carpet · 8 matchesTanner 1Connors 7
- Hard · 6 matchesTanner 1Connors 5
- Grass · 6 matchesTanner 2Connors 4
- Clay · 1 matchTanner 0Connors 1
- Grand Slams · 5 matchesTanner 1Connors 4
- Finals · 6 matchesTanner 0Connors 6
Last meetings
- 20 Aug 1984 · Cincinnati · Round of 64 · HardConnors won 6-1 6-3
- 13 Jan 1982 · Masters · Round robin · CarpetTanner won 7-6 6-7 7-6
- 23 June 1980 · Wimbledon · Quarterfinal · GrassConnors won 1-6 6-2 4-6 6-2 6-2
- 9 Jan 1980 · Masters · Round robin · CarpetConnors won 2-6 6-4 7-6
- 23 Apr 1979 · Las Vegas · Quarterfinal · Hard
Last 10 games
Titles, oldest to newest.
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