Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Jimmy Connors: The Hellion of Tennis
The best show in men's tennis in recent weeks opened beside the pool at the exclusive Beverly Hills Tennis Club. The world's No. 1 player was nursing a sprained ankle, but the injury did not stop him from uninhibitedly demonstrating a self-choreographed twist-and-shake step he calls "Soul Train." Nor did the sedate surroundings squelch his urge to sing a few bars from the rock song Philadelphia Freedom in an uncertain tenor or to entertain the club's teenagers with raunchy jokes. James Scott Connors, 22 going...
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