Petros " Pete Sampras ( born August 12 , 1971 ) , born in Maryland , United States ) is a retired American male tennis player , one of the best male tennis players in American sports history , the highest singles ranking in the world , six consecutive year-end overall No. 1 titles from 1993 to 1998 , and a career winner of 14 Grand Slam singles titles.
Sampras in 2008
Sampras, as the dominant men's professional tennis in the 90s, once monopolized and dominated the men's tennis scene at that time. His 14 Grand Slam men's singles titles were the most Grand Slam singles titles ever won by a male player in tennis history ( broken by Federer at Wimbledon in 2009 ) .
Sampras
Sampras is considered the best male player in tennis history, and he has performed particularly well on grass courts, winning the Wimbledon men's singles title seven times in eight consecutive years; He is also the youngest singles champion and five-time champion in the history of the US Open. He and his contemporary, Agassi, are considered the greatest opponents in the history of tennis, and their match is considered one of the most classic in tennis history.
Sampras in 1992
Sampras set a record of 286 weeks of ATP singles world number one (broken by Federer after Wimbledon in 2012) and became the ATP singles year-end world number one for six consecutive years (1993-1998).
Sampras also helped the United States win one World Team Cup (1993) and two Davis Cups.
Sampras
In 2002 , Sampras announced that he would retire after the U.S. Open , and expressed his desire to end with a championship , but he got his wish and defeated archrival Agassi 3–1 ( 6–3 , 6–4 , 5–7 , 6–4 ) in the final, ending his 15-year career.
14 Grand Slam singles titles
Sampras is a tennis player who mainly serves the net and draws the ball from the bottom line. He has a good ability to serve and hold (not be broken) and his serve can maintain a certain speed on both the first and second serves. Sampras is best at playing on fast courts such as grass and hard courts, and clay courts are the ones he is not good at, with only three of his 64 Tour titles won on clay, as his serve is easily traversed on clay, and the French Open at clay courts is the only major tournament where he has not won a men's singles title.
Sampras with Agassiz
Andre Kirk Agassi ( born April 29 , 1970 ) is a retired American male tennis player in Las Vegas. Agassiz, ranked No. 1 in the world in singles, was the first men's singles gold slam player in tennis history, and won eight Grand Slam singles titles in his career and the men's singles title at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. Agassiz is the first athlete to win a men's singles career Grand Slam on grass, clay, hard and fast hard. He and his wife, German tennis player Graff (the only singles gold slam winner in history), are the "tennis gold slam couple".
Agassiz in 2006
Agassi was born into a family of Olympic boxers, and his father represented Iran in Olympic boxing. But he was a talented athlete born for tennis, and he began his tennis initiation training when he was only one tennis racket tall.
In 1986, at the age of sixteen, Agassiz began his career. Agassi has previously reached the final of Grand Slam tournaments such as the French Open and the US Open. The first breakthrough of his career soon came at Wimbledon in 1992, when he captured the first Grand Slam of his career, ushering in the era of tennis backhand.
Agassiz in his youth
Agassiz is a bottom-line volley-oriented player with a strong ability to receive the ball and play a style suitable for a variety of venues, he is known as the best base-line player of the 90s, he and former king Sampras dominated the men's tennis scene in the 90s, who won more Grand Slams, but Agassi's technique is more comprehensive to suit any venue.
8 Grand Slams, 1 Olympic gold medal
In the third round of the men's singles tournament at the 2006 U.S. Open, Agassi lost 3–1 to Benjamin Becker. Agassiz won a total of 870 wins and 60 ATP singles titles in his career.
Agassiz and Porky Silk
In April 1997, Agassiz married the famous American actor Brooke Xiaosi, and the two divorced two years later. On October 22, 2001, Agassiz married the famous German tennis player Graf, and had a son and a daughter.
Agassiz and Graf
Graff (born June 14, 1969) is a German female tennis player, one of the best women's sports figures in German history, one of the women's GOATs in the history of tennis, the highest singles ranking in the world, and the only annual Grand Slam winner in tennis history. Graff has won 22 Grand Slam titles throughout her career (four at the Australian Open, six at the French Open, seven at Wimbledon and five at the US Open) and is the second most female player in the Open era, behind Serena Williams with 23. In addition, she has won a total of 107 WTA tournaments.