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Petros Sampras (born August 12, 1971), best known as Pete Sampras is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. His professional career began in 1988 and ended at the 2002 US Open, which he won, defeating his longtime rival Andre Agassi in the final.
Jul 5, 2021 · Just a few months after Sampras won that supposedly unassailable 14th major, a talented Swiss star with a game not dissimilar to Sampras’s won Wimbledon for the first time.
Jun 20, 2024 · Pete Sampras (born August 12, 1971, Washington, D.C., U.S.) is an American tennis player whose exceptional all-around game enabled him to win 14 Grand Slam singles titles, a record among male players until 2009, when it was broken by Roger Federer.
Aug 25, 2023 · What happened 20 years ago on the opening night of the 2003 US Open once again revealed the wide range of dimensions that made Pete Sampras one of tennis’ most remarkable champions. Sampras was...
Jul 9, 2020 · In the middle of Wimbledon's greatest stage was Pete Sampras. He had just been crowned the greatest men's tennis player of all time. Often inscrutable, the American welled up as the...
Apr 12, 1993 · Official tennis bio information on Pete Sampras including personal and professional info.
Official tennis player profile of Pete Sampras on the ATP Tour. Featuring news, bio, rankings, playing activity, coach, stats, win-loss, points breakdown, videos, and more.
Sep 11, 2015 · Pete Sampras, hailed as “a future Hall of Famer” by Ed Fernberger, the co-tournament chairman, following victories over Top 10 players Andre Agassi and Tim Mayotte earlier in the week, received the biggest pay cheque of his fledging career, $135,000.
Jul 21, 2022 · In late June 2002, Pete Sampras, who during the previous decade had won seven of eight Wimbledon championships, was relegated to Court No. 2 at the All England Lawn Tennis Club. Known as the “graveyard court,” it had an uncanny ability to slay top-ranked players.
Feb 27, 2018 · Pistol Pete was born. As he made clear over those two weeks at Flushing Meadows, the player of the’ 90s would be Sampras. His ability to lock even his best opponents down and take the racquets...
