Always an outsider, always a winner

Jimmy Connors is hailed as one of the greatest – and most controversial – tennis players of all time. As his autobiography, The Outsider, is published, he talks about his love for the game, his will to win and his antics on and off the court

There’s no denying Jimmy Connors’s victories are some of the most enduring memories of tennis.

Yet there’s also no denying the era in which he claimed these victories has faded. The technology of court surfaces and rackets has changed the game he knew in the 1980s almost beyond recognition.