{"id":13547,"date":"2025-06-25T12:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/13547\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T12:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:59:10","slug":"jimmy-connors-shares-his-opinion-about-wimbledon-and-queens-which-he-admits-will-get-him-in-some-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/13547\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Connors shares his opinion about Wimbledon and Queen’s which he admits will get him ‘in some trouble’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The 2025 Queen\u2019s Club Championships were a great success, as the stars of the WTA and ATP Tour battled it out for one of the biggest grass-court titles around.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the first time in 50 years, the women returned to Queen\u2019s, in a field headlined by Qinwen Zheng, Madison Keys<\/a>, and Elena Rybakina.<\/p>\n

Shocking the world, it was German qualifier Tatjana Maria who won the 2025 Queen\u2019s<\/a> Club Championships, defeating Amanda Anisimova in the final.<\/p>\n

On the men\u2019s side, Carlos Alcaraz won his second title<\/a> in three years, picking up his grass-court campaign where he left off in 2024.<\/p>\n

\"CarlosPhoto by Luke Walker\/Getty Images for LTA<\/p>\n

Players will now turn their attention to Wimbledon<\/a>, the jewel in the crown of the grass season.<\/p>\n

Weighing in with his thoughts, a former champion at both the Queen\u2019s Club and Wimbledon has made a controversial claim he thinks could get him \u2018in some trouble\u2019.<\/p>\n

Jimmy Connors preferred the courts at Queen\u2019s to Wimbledon<\/p>\n

During the latest episode of Advantage Connors, Jimmy Connors<\/a> gave his verdict on the courts at Queen\u2019s and at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI always thought, and I am going to get in some trouble for this from all those Wimbledon lovers, that the Queen\u2019s Centre Court was the best court ever,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way it played, the bounces, the shape it was in.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot that Wimbledon wasn\u2019t, but back then Wimbledon took such a beating, with so many matches, and a lot of serve and volleyers, so you were tearing up not only the baseline but also the service line.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Queen\u2019s court for the one week, wow, was that a pleasure to play.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"JimmyPhoto by Dan Istitene\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

After many players took issue with the conditions at various clay-court tournaments over recent months, the response to the courts at Queen\u2019s was far more positive.<\/p>\n

Kept in good shape from the opening match in the women\u2019s tournament on June 7, to the men\u2019s final on June 22, it\u2019s no surprise players return to the Queen\u2019s Club year after year.<\/p>\n

How many times did Jimmy Connors win Wimbledon and Queen\u2019s?<\/p>\n

Connors preferred Centre Court at Queen\u2019s to Centre Court at Wimbledon, but at which tournament did he enjoy the most success?<\/p>\n

The American was a six-time finalist at the All England Club, picking up two titles at the sole grass-court Slam.<\/p>\n\nFinal<\/strong><\/td>\nOpponent<\/strong><\/td>\nResult<\/strong><\/td>\nScore<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n1974 Wimbledon<\/td>\nKen Rosewall<\/td>\nWin<\/td>\n6-1, 6-1, 6-4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n1975 Wimbledon<\/td>\nArthur Ashe<\/td>\nLoss<\/td>\n1-6, 1-6, 7-5, 4-6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n1977 Wimbledon<\/td>\nBjorn Borg<\/td>\nLoss<\/td>\n6-3, 2-6, 1-6, 7-5, 4-6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n1978 Wimbledon<\/td>\nBjorn Borg<\/td>\nLoss<\/td>\n2-6, 2-6, 3-6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n1982 Wimbledon<\/td>\nJohn McEnroe<\/td>\nWin<\/td>\n3-6, 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n1984 Wimbledon<\/td>\nJohn McEnroe<\/td>\nLoss<\/td>\n1-6, 1-6, 2-6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Jimmy Connors\u2019 record in Wimbledon finals<\/p>\n

Connors won his first Wimbledon title in 1974, taking down Australia\u2019s Ken Rosewall in the final, but was made to wait eight years for his second.<\/p>\n

Facing off against his rival John McEnroe<\/a> in 1982, Connors won a five-set thriller to clinch the second of his two Wimbledon titles.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The 72-year-old also enjoyed his fair share of success at Queen\u2019s, qualifying for five finals, winning two.<\/p>\n\nFinal<\/strong><\/td>\nOpponent<\/strong><\/td>\nResult<\/strong><\/td>\nScore<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n1972 Queen\u2019s<\/td>\nJohn Paish<\/td>\nWin<\/td>\n6-2, 6-3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n1982 Queen\u2019s<\/td>\nJohn McEnroe<\/td>\nWin<\/td>\n7-5, 6-3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n1983 Queen\u2019s<\/td>\nJohn McEnroe<\/td>\nWin<\/td>\n6-3, 6-3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n1986 Queen\u2019s<\/td>\nTim Mayotte<\/td>\nLoss<\/td>\n4-6, 1-2 (RET)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n1987 Queen\u2019s<\/td>\nBoris Becker<\/td>\nLoss<\/td>\n7-6, 3-6, 4-6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Jimmy Connors\u2019 record in Queen\u2019s finals<\/p>\n

In 1972, Connors proved his worth among the 64-man field at Queen\u2019s, lifting the first grass-court title of his career.<\/p>\n

Ten years later, Connors beat McEnroe in back-to-back years to become a three-time Queen\u2019s champion, but fell short in his next two finals, losing to Tim Mayotte in 1986 and to Boris Becker<\/a> in 1987.<\/p>\n

Winning three titles at Queen\u2019s and two at Wimbledon, Connors showed his class on the grass throughout his legendary tennis career.<\/p>\n

Connors retired from tennis in 1996 with nine grass-court titles to his name, a tally bettered by a select few in the history of the ATP Tour.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 Queen\u2019s Club Championships were a great success, as the stars of the WTA and ATP Tour…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1479,14188,1480,62,1464,67,132,68,2071],"class_list":{"0":"post-13547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-jimmy-connors","10":"tag-queens-club-championships","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-wimbledon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114744129225023488","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}