28. Connors and Evert win Wimbledon

In 1974, royalty showed up at Wimbledon. American royalty. The King and Queen of Wimbledon were 21-year old Jimmy Connors and his fiance, 19-year old Chris Evert. Both arrived at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club ranked #1 in the world, and both would leave as Wimbledon champions...


Sports Illustrated's Curry Kirkpatrick covered them both for most of their careers and gives great insight to what they were like off the court... Connors, the rambunctious, emotional male and Chrissy, the Ice Princess... a power couple in the world of tennis.


A few months later, the engagement was over, but for one crazy England summer, they were the talk of the sports world. Go back 50 years when two of America's all-time greats took Great Britain by storm... How different was Chrissy away from the court? Once she broke up with Jimmy, who was next for Miss Evert? And how she and Martina Navratilova turned one of the sports greatest rivalry's into a lifelong friendship. Curry knows cause he was there asking the questions and writing the stories in that summer of '74.... and 50-years later, he can recall them like it was yesterday... a great talk with a great talker, Curry Kirkpatrick... on the Past Our Prime podcast.





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