You directly claimed that McEnroe's reference to Connors being "slow" was a reference to his age. Why are you now denying it?
I mean, I understand why-to save embarrassment. But do you think we've suddenly all got amnesia?
And Jimmy being flat, having no rhythm and being in a long match with Lendl were direct quotes from McEnroe, not from me.
I am not denying it, quite the opposite: I said exactly that. Being slow
was a reference to his physical condition, which was because of his trouble to recover from his match with Lendl, which, in turn is
a reference to his reduced ability to recover quickly, due to age, and that was what I said that McEnroe meant with his comment.
I said as much and
you tried to imply that McEnroe's comment about Jimmy not finding his rhythm, and him being slow reference one and the same thing, which clearly wasn't the case. They were
two separate references, albeit said at once, so you tried to pass them as one, which I addressed then by saying that you are
trying to get away with half-truths.
It is all there, your exact reference to what McEnroe said, your exact words and my responses to each of your post, and I can bring them up, if need be and you dispute what I am describing to have happened.
Not only that, but you had a number of other laughable claims with which you tried to evade the already existing proofs that such age comparisons were made: for example you stated:
"No one considered Connors and Lendl to be direct contemporaries. There was almost 8 years gap between them"
to which
@JMR answered:
"So, players with 7-year age difference (Connors-Mac and Lendl-Becker) were deemed contemporaries - according to you in your OP - but Connors and Lendl were not contemporaries because their age difference was "almost 8"? Yes, I see the crucial distinction!
Not to mention the fact that Connors and Lendl were co-members of the Year-end Top 3 in 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, and almost 1985 (Jimbo fell to #4? Isn't that another of YOUR criteria for declaring players contemporaries, at which point age difference miraculously melt away?"
As you can see, thee is a pretty exhaustive record of the claims with which you were trying to twist the conversation.
Too bad that in the video of the said match also a reference to Lendl as the " young" opponent of Connors in the SF was made.
All in all in that video there were references to Jimbo's age made by 1) both commentators, 2) McEnroe,3) in relation to his opponent in the SF (Lendl) AND 4) in the course of the broadcast narrated indirectly by the player himself, when he confronted McEnroe in a previous match,
telling him that he had a son that was behaving like McEnroe, and which was the reason why McEnroe changed his attitude for that match
And you have the gall to tell me that noone ever thought about bringing up age comparisons between these players?