Curren v Connors
ATP Tour career
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Jimmy Connors takes it, 12–2 on categories
Connors wins on titles. Curren’s case rests on first-serve points won %, but it isn’t enough to swing it. ATP Tour career: Curren 580 matches, Connors 1,549 matches.
- Connors has 111 titles (one every 11.1 matches) to Curren’s 6 titles (one every 33.3 matches).
- Connors has the better first serve in %: 65.1 to Curren’s 49.3.
- Curren has the better first-serve points won %: 75.7 to Connors’s 62.8.
- Winners’ edge: Connors’s team won 82%, Curren’s team won 59% of the matches they played.
- Longevity: Connors has 1,549 matches across 28 seasons, Curren 580 in 16 — the averages matter more than the totals here.
- Not every stat was recorded for every match (titles, 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.
- 0.06 total · best 1Titlesper game0.1111 total · best 1
- –Grand Slam titlesper game0.08 total · best 1
- 49.3First serve in %65.1
- 75.7First-serve points won %62.8
- 56.9Break points saved %57.2
- 35.9Return points won %40.6
- 7.3501 total · best 22
Head to head
511 matches
since 19826
since 19826
- Hard · 5 matchesCurren 2Connors 3
- Grass · 3 matchesCurren 2Connors 1
- Carpet · 3 matchesCurren 1Connors 2
- Grand Slams · 2 matchesCurren 2Connors 0
Last meetings
- 10 Feb 1992 · Memphis · Round of 32 · HardConnors won 6-2 6-2
- 20 Mar 1989 · Key Biscayne · Round of 16 · HardCurren won 4-6 4-6 6-3 6-4 6-2
- 13 Feb 1989 · Memphis · Quarterfinal · HardCurren won 6-2 6-2
- 9 Feb 1987 · Memphis · Quarterfinal · HardConnors won 6-4 3-6 6-3
- 24 June 1985 · Wimbledon · Semifinal · GrassCurren won 6-2 6-2 6-1
- 28 Jan 1985 · Memphis · Quarterfinal · CarpetConnors won 7-6 6-4
- 8 Aug 1983 · Montreal / Toronto · Quarterfinal · HardConnors won
Last 10 games
Titles, oldest to newest.
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