Post-retirement, he became a consultant to 3M ( Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company ), helping them during the transition from vinyl recordings to recordings on tape.

Post-retirement Tredrea plans to broaden his horizons in this field, rather than pursue a coaching role.

Post-retirement, Weekes would make occasional appearances in charity and exhibition matches, including for the International Cavaliers.

The event has featured such players as Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, Jim Courier, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Michael Chang, James Blake and Andy Roddick, before they turned professional.

Since mid-2010, Sampras has been spotted at multiple exhibitions playing with a Babolat Pure Storm Tour, along with Babolat's popular RPM Blast strings.

Sampras has β-thalassemia minor, a genetic trait that sometimes causes mild anemia.

He has defeated, amongst other top players, current World No. 1 Roger Federer and former World No. 1's, Carlos Moyá, Lleyton Hewitt, Gustavo Kuerten, Marcelo Rios, Jim Courier, Pete Sampras, and Andre Agassi, as well as Grand Slam champions Michael Chang, Thomas Johansson, Sergi Bruguera and Gaston Gaudio.

Spadea has ATP career singles wins over Roger Federer ( 1 – 2 record ), Pete Sampras ( 1 – 4 ), Andre Agassi ( 2 – 4 ), Rafael Nadal ( 1 – 1 ), Andy Roddick ( 1 – 2 ), Patrick Rafter, Richard Krajicek, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Jim Courier, Michael Chang, Marat Safin, and Gustavo Kuerten.

In singles play, Santoro defeated 18 players who were ranked World No. 1 at some time during their careers: Novak Djokovic, Jimmy Connors, Mats Wilander, Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg, Jim Courier, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Thomas Muster, Marcelo Ríos, Gustavo Kuerten, Carlos Moyà, Pat Rafter, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Marat Safin, Lleyton Hewitt, Andy Roddick and Roger Federer ( with whom he has a 2 – 9 record ).

In recognition of Santoro's varied and innovative style of play, Pete Sampras has nicknamed him The Magician.

Sampras used one racket type, the Wilson Pro Staff Original, for his entire professional career – a racket first introduced in 1983.

During a good part of 2011, Sampras used a racquet that was painted all black, with Tourna Grip and Tourna Damper.

Arguably the greatest half-volleyer in history is John McEnroe ; other professionals such as Stefan Edberg and Pete Sampras had excellent half volleys that were used as weapons.

Players as recent as Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi used the classical forehand.

The following year, Sampras slightly improved his ranking to a year-ending world number 81.

The original kevlar Pro Staff model ( Sampras ' racquet ) was heavy ( 350 + gm strung ) and small-headed ( 85 sq.

Sampras is the last American male to win Wimbledon ( 2000 ) and the ATP World Tour Finals ( 1999 ).

Sampras also won singles titles in San Jose, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Munich, and Paris, and the ATP Tour World Championships in Hanover, Germany.

Sampras won 64 top-level singles titles ( including 14 Grand Slam titles, 11 Super 9 / ATP Masters Series / ATP World Tour Masters 1000 titles and five Tennis Masters Cup titles ) and two doubles titles.

They faced each other twice in the season-ending ATP Tour World Championships, with Sampras losing the round-robin match, but winning the final.

Becker lost to Sampras in the final of the 1996 ATP Tour World Championships in Hanover.

* Pete Sampras (' 94 and ' 97 Australian, ' 93 -' 95 and ' 97 -' 99 Wimbledon, ' 90 & ' 93 & ' 95 -' 96 US Open )

1999 also started out disappointingly, as Sampras withdrew from the Australian Open and failed to win a title during the early part of the season.

Sampras's ranking was hurt through a combination of withdrawing from the Australian and US Opens, tournaments in which he had strong performances during the previous year, and the resurgence of longtime rival Andre Agassi, putting an end to Sampras ' six consecutive years of finishing as the world number 1.

In 2002, Sampras suffered an early exit from Wimbledon, losing in the second round to no.

Sampras forfeited the world number 1 ranking to Agassi when injury forced Sampras to withdraw from that year's US Open.

Many observers noted that despite his lengthy layoff from competitive tournaments, Sampras still possessed many of the previous skills he had displayed while on the ATP tour, with tennis legend John McEnroe going as far as to say that Sampras would be worthy of a top five seeding at Wimbledon were he to enter the tournament.

In November 2010 Sampras reported that many of his trophies and other memorabilia had been stolen from a West Los Angeles public storage facility.

Sampras was able to hit winners from both his forehand and backhand wings from all over the court.

Krajicek shocked the tennis world by defeating Sampras in straight sets, 7 – 5, 7 – 6 ( 3 ), 6 – 4, becoming the only player to beat Sampras in a Wimbledon singles match in the eight-year period from 1993 until Sampras ' fourth-round loss to Roger Federer in the 2001 tournament.

Great are also Laver's performances on hardcourt and on carpet from 1968 onwards ( even better than those of Sampras ).

* Pete Sampras announces his retirement from competitive tennis.

Edberg's final two Grand Slam singles triumphs came at the US Open, with wins over Jim Courier in the 1991 final and Pete Sampras in the 1992 final, who was just months away from being ranked No. 1 in the world.

In Chile, thousands of people took to the streets to celebrate the triumph of the first Chilean to reach the sport's number one ranking, grabbing the position from Pete Sampras ( who had maintained 102 consecutive weeks at number one, and 5 years ending the season as the leader ).

At Wimbledon, he made it to the semifinals, before falling to the eventual champion Sampras ; the set that Martin took from Sampras in the match was the only set that Sampras lost during the entire tournament .< ref >

In a 2006 interview featuring questions from fans by the BBC Sport website, a question was asked about the frequent comparisons between Roger Federer and Sampras.

The episode features guest appearances from tennis professionals Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, and sisters Venus and Serena Williams as themselves.

This forces the family to go back to the bench and resume their normal places in the family ; as they enjoy the exhibition of top-class tennis, they agree that it is better to watch things than to do things and Homer offers to buy the family dinner with money he took from Sampras ' wallet.

" Tennis the Menace " features guest appearances from Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, and sisters Venus and Serena Williams.

On February 18, 2008, in an exhibition match during the SAP Open, Sampras defeated another active player, former world No. 2 Tommy Haas.

On March 10, 2008, Sampras played another exhibition match against world No. 1 Roger Federer at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

On June 24, 2008, Ríos defeated Pete Sampras in an exhibition match that commemorated the ten years anniversary of having reached the Number 1 ranking in the world.

On June 22, 2008, he was defeated by Pete Sampras in the final of a seniors tournament in São Paulo, Brazil.