The golden couple of tennis were both repeatedly unfaithful to one another according to the memoirs ‘That night, we ran around London acting like kids in high school - which, by the way, she still was,’ he writes in The Outsider. After dinner they went to the Playboy Club, where Connors’ eyes weren’t on the beautiful women at the bar or the blackjack tables but on Evert, he reveals in a tell-all memoir published in the U.S. Later that week, he took her out on the town for their first date. Evert was just 17 and shadowed by her eagle-eyed mother, Colette, but Connors, two years older and never lacking in bravado, went and sat beside her. It was June 1972 and they were having lunch in the small dining room of the Queen’s Club during the tournament that is the traditional warm-up to Wimbledon. Legions of Wimbledon fans may find it hard to credit in the man who once defined bad behaviour on the tennis court, but Jimmy Connors says he ‘turned on the charm’ the first time he chatted up Chris Evert.
