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Sampras won the first of his two Australian Open titles in 1994, defeating American Todd Martin in the final.
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Sampras debuted on the professional tour in 1988 and played his last top-level tournament in 2002 when he won the US Open, defeating rival Andre Agassi in the final.
Sampras also won a 1998 clay court tournament in Atlanta, defeating Jason Stoltenberg in the final.
Sampras won his second and final Australian Open title in January, defeating Carlos Moyà in the final.
Sampras also won singles titles in San Jose, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Munich, and Paris, and the ATP Tour World Championships in Hanover, Germany.
) Sampras failed to defend his Australian Open title, losing in the quarterfinals to Karol Kučera, and won Wimbledon only after a hard-fought five-set victory over Goran Ivanišević.
Sampras reached the semifinals of the Australian Open in early 2000 ( falling to the eventual champion Agassi in a five-set match ) and won the Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida for the third time in March.
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.
Sampras won 20 of the 34 matches he played against Agassi.
With both Sampras and Agassi participating, the U. S. won the Davis Cup in 1995. Notable Sampras-Agassi matches of 1995 included the finals of the Australian Open, the Newsweek Champions Cup, the Lipton International Players Championships, the Canadian Open, and the US Open, with Sampras winning the Newsweek Champions Cup and the US Open.
The next time Sampras and Agassi met in a Grand Slam final was at Wimbledon in 1999, where Sampras won in straight sets.
Sampras won 12 of the 16 matches he played against Rafter, including eight of their first nine.
Their rivalry began to truly develop after Rafter shocked the tennis world by winning the 1997 US Open, a tournament that many expected Sampras to win, having won in 1995 and 1996.
Sampras cited a leg injury as the reason Rafter won, an attitude that upset the generally mild-mannered Aussie: " He really does say some funny things at the wrong time ", said Rafter, " We are out there busting our guts and he doesn't show a lot of respect at the end of the day.
After losing for a third consecutive time against Rafter, Sampras won their final four meetings, including a four-set victory in the 2000 Wimbledon final, after being down a set and trailing in the second-set tiebreaker.
Sampras won his first two events on tour, defeating Todd Martin in both finals ( one of which included Sampras's first trip to his ancestral homeland, Greece ).
In 2009 Sampras won two Outback Champions Series titles.
Pete Sampras, runner-up in 2001, won his fifth US Open title, and his 14th and final Grand Slam title, defeating his rival Agassi in the final in four sets.
The clear favourite was Pete Sampras, who had won the title for the past three consecutive years.
He won two hard-court titles, including the Lipton International Players Championships, the same tournament where his career had nearly ended just eight years earlier — by defeating Sergi Bruguera in the final, after Bruguera had defeated Pete Sampras in the semifinals.
Only Sampras, Emerson, and Roger Federer have won more Grand Slam singles titles.
He advanced to the quarter-finals at Wimbledon in 1999 for the second straight year, where he retired in the second set against Sampras after having won the first set.
He won his first Grand Slam title at the 2000 U. S. Open after defeating Pete Sampras, and won the 2005 Australian Open, defeating Australian Lleyton Hewitt in the final.
Sampras and first
In his first Grand Slam singles match, Sampras lost to world number 69 Jaime Yzaga of Peru in the first round of the US Open.
Sampras did not advance past the quarterfinals in his next three tournaments, although he did record wins over world number 79 Jim Courier in their first career match-up, and world number 8 Tim Mayotte.
To end the year, Sampras lost in the first round of four consecutive tournaments.
At the Australian Open, Sampras upset twelfth-ranked Mayotte in the first round before losing to thirteenth-ranked Yannick Noah in the fourth round in four sets.
Sampras did not play the French Open and again lost in the first round of Wimbledon, this time to Christo van Rensburg.
Sampras in 1991 captured the first of his five career titles at the year-end Tennis Masters Cup.
In 1992, Sampras reached the first round of the French Open for the first of three consecutive years, made it to the Wimbledon semifinals, and was the runner-up at the US Open to Stefan Edberg.
In April 1993, Sampras attained the world number 1 ranking for the first time.
Sampras prevailed in five sets, and went on to win his first Wimbledon championship.
Sampras used one racket type, the Wilson Pro Staff Original, for his entire professional career – a racket first introduced in 1983.
On April 6, 2006, three and a half years after his retirement, Sampras resurfaced and played his first exhibition match in River Oaks, Houston, Texas, against 23-year-old Robby Ginepri.
On November 20, 2007, Sampras lost the first of three exhibition matches in Asia against Roger Federer in Seoul, Korea.
In the final however, the years past-his-prime Becker, further fatigued after grueling baseline contests with Cédric Pioline and then with Agassi, ran out of gas after winning the first set in a tiebreak, and lost in four sets to Pete Sampras.
In his first round he defeated Kelly Jones 6 – 2, 6 – 3, in the second round he defeated Darren Cahill 6 – 2, 7 – 5 and in the third round Henman was defeated by Pete Sampras 6 – 1, 6 – 2.
Safin held the No. 1 ATP ranking for 9 weeks during 2000 ( making him the tallest number 1 ranked player of all time ) when he won his first Grand Slam tournament at the US Open, becoming the only Russian in history to win this tournament in the Mens Singles draw, by defeating Pete Sampras in straight sets.
Blanco had two high profile wins in majors, beating former 2-time US Open Champion, Patrick Rafter, in the first round of the 2000 US Open, and in beating Pete Sampras in the second round of the 2001 French Open.
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 ).
Sampras and two
However, just one week later at the Lipton International Players Championships in Miami, Sampras defeated two top-40 players before losing to world number 18 Emilio Sánchez.
Sampras lost a five-set US Open semifinal to the eventual winner Patrick Rafter, after leading the match two sets to one.
After this victory, Sampras did not win another title for more than two years.
Sampras, however, then defeated two young stars, Tommy Haas in the fourth round and Andy Roddick in the quarterfinals.
After a four-set battle between the two veterans, Sampras claimed a then-record 14th Grand Slam singles title and matched Jimmy Connors's record of five US Open singles championships.
Two days later in Kuala Lumpur, Sampras again lost to Federer in two tiebreaks.
However, Sampras was able to win the last match of the series, winning in two sets on fast carpet.
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.
They have two sons, Christian Charles Sampras ( b. November 21, 2002 ) and Ryan Nikolaos Sampras ( b. July 29, 2005 ).
In 1995, Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras met in the final, the third of the four times that the two top-ranked men's players would meet that year, after the Australian Open and Indian Wells Masters.
Marat Safin won his first US Open title and first of two Grand Slams, defeating Pete Sampras in the final, and Venus Williams defeated Davenport to win the women's title.
He beat Marat Safin in Kitzbühel and pushed Pete Sampras to two tie-breakers in US Open's third round.
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