tennis pete sampras

tennis pete sampras

tennis pete sampras

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World No. 1 American tennis player. During his 15-year career, he won a record 14 Grand Slam men's singles titles in 52 appearances. Sampras finished as World No. 1 on the ATP rankings for six consecutive years, a record for the open era and tied for third all-time. tennis pete sampras won the singles title at Wimbledon seven times, a record shared with William Renshaw. He also won five singles titles at the U.S. Open, an open era record shared with Jimmy Connors. Bud Collins has named Sampras as one of the top five men's tennis players of all-time, and TENNIS Magazine has named him the greatest player from 1965 through 2005. On July 17, 2007, Sampras was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

Pete Sampras was born in Washington, D.C., and is the third son of Sammy and Georgia Sampras. His mother is a Greek immigrant, and his father is half Greek and half Jewish. Greek culture played a big role in his upbringing, and Sampras attended Greek Orthodox Church on Sundays.

From an early age, Sampras showed signs of outstanding athletic ability. The young Sampras discovered a tennis racquet in the basement of his home and spent hours hitting balls against the wall. In 1978, the Sampras family moved to Palos Verdes, California, and the warmer climate there allowed seven-year-old Pete to play more tennis. From early on, his great idol was Rod Laver, and at 11 Sampras met and played with his idol.

Sampras's older sister Stella is the women's tennis head coach at UCLA,and his younger sister, Marion, is a teacher in Los Angeles. His older brother, Gus, has been tournament director at the Scottsdale ATP event, but from 2007 he became president of the firm managing Pete's business activities.

On September 30, 2000, Sampras married American actress and former Miss Teen USA Bridgette Wilson

Sampras has thalassemia minor, a genetic trait that sometimes causes a mild anemia However, the effects of Thalassemia minor are not significant and, while some suggest that this condition limits physical and athletic endurance, this has not been studied and confirmed.

# tennis pete sampras won a record 14 Grand Slam singles titles during his career.

# Sampras finished the year as No. 1 on the ATP rankings for a record six years. He is the only player to have finished as ATP No. 1 for six consecutive years (1993–98).

# Sampras was the ATP No. 1 ranked player in the world for a record 286 weeks.

# Sampras and Jimmy Connors share the record for most U.S. Open men's singles titles won during the open era, with five titles each.

# William Renshaw and Sampras share the record for most Wimbledon men's singles titles won, with seven titles each. Sampras never lost a Wimbledon final.

# tennis pete sampras (7 Wimbledon and 5 US Open) and Bjorn Borg (6 French Open and 5 Wimbledon) are the only male players to have won two different Grand Slam singles titles at least five times.[citation needed]

# Sampras is the only male player to have won at least three consecutive Wimbledon singles titles twice in his career (1993-95, 1997-2000).

# During the open era, only Sampras, Roger Federer, and Borg have won at least four consecutive Wimbledon singles titles.

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