Sports Film Of The Week: This Is What They Want

Jimmy Connors won five straight matches at age 39 to reach the last four at Flushing Meadow. This is that story.

Title: This Is What They Want

Release date: 2013

Plot: Jimmy Connors — tennis icon of the 70s — made an improbable run to the semi-finals of the 1991 US Open. This is how he did it.

Typical YouTube comment: “I just worshipped Connors as a kid. He kicked everybody’s ass AND married the Playmate of the Year. Awesome!”

YouTube: STRESSYN1

Author

Adrian Russell

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