Jimmy Connors

Insights

Eight titles, seven runner-up finishes, and 16 semifinals

Across 58 Grand Slam tournaments, Connors reached at least the semifinal stage 31 times: 8 titles, 7 finals, and 16 semifinals. That concentration of deep runs sits behind his 236-50 record, an 83% win rate over 286 matches.

Peak years came in a tight 1974-1985 window

His title years are clustered in 1974, 1976, 1978, 1982, 1983, and 1984, with additional finals in 1975 and 1977. The data show repeated semifinal-level or better results through the 1979-1985 stretch, including four straight semifinal-or-better seasons from 1980 to 1985.

Wimbledon and the US Open were his main deep-run venues

Connors won Wimbledon twice and the US Open five times, and those two events account for most of his best results. He also reached the Wimbledon final four additional times and the US Open final twice, while his French Open peak was three semifinals.

Late-career resilience produced a 1991 US Open semifinal at age 39

After no Grand Slam results listed for 1990, he returned in 1991 and reached the US Open semifinal at age 39. That was followed by 1992 appearances at age 39 and 40, but both ended in the first round at Wimbledon and the US Open, and in the second round at the US Open.

His best Australian Open result came early, and he never matched it later

The Australian Open appears only in 1974 and 1975, with a title in 1974 and a final in 1975. No later Australian Open results are listed, making that early two-year span his entire Australian Open record in the data.