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Taubman continued his study of the superstar's style - both on and off the court - during interviews with his tennis-pro mother Gloria Connors and his Wimbledon-winning sometime fiancée Chris Evert. Reporter-Researcher Jay Rosenstein talked to Connors' manager Bill Riordan, tennis officials and a courtful of American and Australian pros, including Newcombe. When Rosenstein grew up in Brooklyn, his game was boxball, a kind of street tennis that is played with a "Spaldeen pinkie" ball on a court made up of sidewalk squares. "These pros have a certain panache," Rosenstein concedes, "but they couldn...
From Beverly Hills he flew off to Las Vegas for a day to consult with Songwriter-Singer Paul Anka, who has confected a ditty called I Believe There's Nothing Stronger Than Our Love, about Jimmy Connors' revived romance with the First Lady of Tennis, Chris Evert, 20. Connors, who has never sung professionally, will record the song himself. After meeting with Anka, Connors hopped back to Los Angeles to greet Evert, who had just jetted in from Philadelphia for a tournament...
...even leaped into the stands to go after a boisterous fan. What the public does not see or hear can be just as livid. As spectators in Las Vegas gave Rod Laver a standing ovation before their February match, Connors was standing next to Segura, his mother and Evert, howling back obscenity after obscenity...
...outbursts are calculated. "He's two completely different people on and off the court," says Evert. "The madder he gets, the better he plays. Jimmy can't beat someone he likes. He has to hate the person he's playing." Connors admits that he thrives on antagonism. "I like to have fans against me," he says. "I want to do everything I can to get them against me more. When they're yelling at me, I really get into the match. I guess I'm trying to show them that no matter how much they hate me, they have...
...Chris Evert was to have some excitement though as her old flame, Jimmy Connors, came to town to watch her first lose to Evonne Goolagong in the semifinals and then beat Margaret Court in the consolation. The on-again-off-again relationship between "Kissable Chrissie" and the notorious Conners prompted one writer at the tournament who saw the two of them together to say, "If two people ever deserved each other, it has to be Chris Evert and Jimmy Connors...