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John Connors Obituary, Death – American former No. 1 tennis player James Scott Connors was born on September 2, 1952. From 1974 through 1977, he held the top Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) rating for a total of 268 weeks, a record at the time. Connors still retains three important Open Era men’s singles records thanks to his lengthy and successful career: 109 titles, 1,557 matches played, and 1,274 match victories. He has won eight major singles titles (five US Opens, two Wimbledons, and one Australian Open, which is a shared Open Era record), three year-end championships, and 17 Grand Prix Super Series crowns.

He won three major championships in 1974, becoming only the second man in the Open Era to do so, and was barred from competing in the fourth, the French Open. From 1974 to 1978, Connors finished first overall in the ATP rankings. He won the US Open and Wimbledon in 1982, was named ATP Player of the Year, and won the ITF World Championship. The year was 1996, and he was 43 years old.
Connors and Chris Evert, a fellow tennis professional, were engaged from 1974 to 1975.

At the 1974 Wimbledon Championships, they both won a singles match, a victory that the media dubbed “The Lovebird Double.” They called off their engagement just before the 1975 Wimbledon championship. Before permanently severing their ties, Connors and Evert briefly made amends in 1976 and 1978. In his autobiography, which Connors published in May 2013, he claimed that Evert had aborted their unborn child on her own initiative while she was pregnant with their child.

From 1976 until 1977, Connors was betrothed to former Miss World Marjorie Wallace; nevertheless, in 1979, Connors wed Playboy model Patti McGuire. They reside in the Santa Barbara, California region with their two children, Aubree and Brett. As he and his wife “never missed an episode” of Wheel of Fortune, Connors applied to host the NBC daytime version of the game show in the fall of 1988. Rolf Benirschke, however, was given the position. Many media sites reportedly tried to get their hands on Connors’ audition tape, but the show’s creator Merv Griffin claimed that doing so would not have been “fair to Jimmy.”

He invested alongside his brother John in the Argosy Gaming Company, which ran riverboat casinos on the Mississippi River, in the 1990s. The two held a 19% stake in the business, which had its headquarters in East Alton, Illinois, a suburb of St. Louis. In the late 1990s, Argosy narrowly avoided bankruptcy, and John Connors, the brother of Connors, personally filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. In the liquidation, Connors’ business, Smooth Swing, paid Union Planters Bank, which had foreclosed on John, $1.9 million to buy the Alystra Casino in Henderson, Nevada. John Connors had revealed plans to feature a Jimmy Connors theme area when he built the casino in 1995. After it was closed in 1998, it attracted thieves who stole the copper piping and the homeless. Under Connors’ ownership, the casino was destroyed by fire in May 2008 and never reopened.

John Connors Obituary, Death – American former No. 1 tennis player James Scott Connors was born on September 2, 1952. From 1974 through 1977, he held the top Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) rating for a total of 268 weeks, a record at the time. Connors still retains three important Open Era men’s singles records…