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Is Federer in a New York state of mind? U.S.Open will get 24-hour-a-day coverage(AP)
11p.m. – 11a.m. recap of the day’s action. Matches not seen during the day. Also features on the players and the city.
There is no doubt that the fans of New York and former tennis great Jimmy Connors have a mutual love for each other. Connors was a tough, brash, in your face kind of player and that fit the kind of player that New Yorkers can really get behind. He is a five time U.S. Open winner starting when the tournament used to be held at Forest Hills.
Connors victory at the 1976 US Open came during the brief period (1975-77) when that tournament was held on clay courts. So while Connors never won the French Open he is, therefore, one of only five men Mats Wilander, Andre Agassi, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal to have won a Grand Slam singles title on grass courts, hard courts, and clay courts.
He will be the lead broadcaster on the Tennis Channel for the U.S. Open starting Monday and in a recent conversation he talked about his fondest memories of the championship.
Connors on the U.S. Open:” Everything and I say that with the utmost respect. … It was the swirl around the US Open that attracted me to it. It was not like what you expected tennis to be like. I did not mine the airplanes, or people walking after points. I didn’t mind anything but being down there playing tennis. Everything else was just a bonus… The fans make the event what it is.”
On the 25th anniversary of Super Saturday: “I remember 25 years ago I lost…At the end of the day, that’s what happened. I’m glad it was a great day but not so much for me…It is still a day talked about by players… Sometimes the hype and what you expect is an overload. But on that day it was not an overload. You got everything you expected to see and more and walked out loving it."
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