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Connors was incredibly superstitious.
Former player
He told me he had four rackets to be strung by tomorrow, so I took them.
If I were to take them before he gave them to me,
it wasn't possible, because he put them in a certain order.
One racket, then another, then another.
Every time he switched sides, he would hit the net,
he always hit it four times.
One day, he turned around and hit it three times.
He realised that he'd forgotten one
and came back with his racket to hit it a fourth time.
Roland-Garros is not only the story of two players. It's a story that belongs to everyone.
His lucky number was four.