Connors straddled a magnificent run of tennis history, playing against Laver, Rosewall, Newcombe, Ashe, McEnroe, Borg, Becker, and Lendl, among others a period of dynamic revolution in on-court strategy and technology (Connors, of course, long holding out with his trusty fly-swatter, the Wilson T-2000).
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