"The heart of a champion * What's in yours?" Sampras Salute
The Man Who Was Too Good What makes a champion?
1994 US.Open - match vs. Yzaga
1995 Australian Open - match vs. Courier
A winner becomes a champion / John Feinstein
1996 Roland Garros - match vs. Courier
1996 US.Open - match vs. Corretja
1996 US.Open - Guts And Glory / S. L. Price (SI)
1996 US.Open - Sampras personifies model / Brian Gillespie
1997 Wimbledon - Sampras might be best ever / Mitch Albom
1997 Wimbledon - The Greatest ? / Nirmal Shekar
1997 Davis Cup - match vs. Rafter
1999 - Giving Pete his props / David Porter (Pete vs. MJ)
1999 Roland Garros - match vs. Marin
1999 Wimbledon - match vs. Agassi (Tying the Record)
1999 World Championship - Final vs. Agassi
1999 Davis Cup doubles - match vs. AUS
2000 Wimbledon - History beckons Sampras, back permitting / Nirmal Shekar
2000 Wimbledon - match vs. Kucera
2000 Wimbledon - match vs. Rafter (Breaking the Record)
2000 Wimbledon - The one & only Pete Sampras / Nirmal Shekar
2000 Wimbledon - Pete Sampras ascends the Everest of tennis / Nirmal Shekar
2000 Winbledon - The Quiet Champion / Jay Winik
2000 Toronto - Sampras: The Modest Superstar / The Toronto Star
2000 US.Open - match vs. Krajicek
2000 - Image idols / Rohit Brijnath
2001 - The Pete Sampras revolution / Nirmal Shekar
2001 US.Open - match vs. Rafter
2002 Wimbledon - Will Sampras find redemption? / Rohit Brijnath
2002 Wimbledon - Slammed as Bland, Sampras is truly Grand / Sally Jenkins
2002 US.Open - match vs. Rusedski
2002 US.Open - match vs. Haas
2002 US.Open - match vs. Agassi (Grand Slam No. 14)
2002 US.Open - God of Big Things / Nirmal Shekar
2002 US.Open - A Grand Occasion / S. L. Price (SI)
2002 Review - Sampras does a Lazarus / Linda Pearce
2002 Summary - Sampras stole Hewitt's thunder / Rohit Brijnath
2003 - Sampras winds down, but not ready to go / Ian O'Connor
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1990 US.Open - Upset Time / Alexander Wolff (SI)
1995 US.Open - match vs. Agassi
1995 US.Open - Ace of hearts / S. L. Price (SI)
1995 Davis Cup Final - match vs. Russia
1996 World Championship - match vs. Becker
1997 Australian Open - match vs. Hrbary
2001 US.Open - match vs. Agassi
2002 Wimbledon - Words of Love / Bel Mooney
2002 Wimbledon - Diary: A week of upsets / Nirmal Shekar
2002 US.Open - match vs. Roddick
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2003 Official-Retirement Tributes:
Please, say it ain’t so, Pete / Bud Collins
General of the Majors / S. Kannan
Unforgettable Pete / James Buddell
A Legendary Career Comes Full Circle / Christopher Clarey
A Grand farewell / Wayne Coffey
Sampras leaves daunting legacy / By Caroline Cheese
Stoic Sampras deserved better from all of us / Patrick Hruby
Connors and McEnroe made more racket, but Sampras was king /
Jerry Magee
Sampras deserves credit for accomplishments on the court /
Michael Cunningham
In retrospect, we should have paid attention sooner /
Randy Kindred
Sampras & Chang - two of a kind / G. Rajaraman
Forget Sampras, Anna should get the farewell / David Whitley
Agassi-Sampras: Coulda been grander / Ian O'Connor
For Pete's sake, truth Paes / Cyrus H. Merchant
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August 2002: Is it time to say goodbye ?
Several articles
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The Federer Debate
2005 - Who is the greatest tennis player of all time? / John Pages
2005 US.Open - Federer: how good is he? We don't yet know / Rohit Brijnath
2005 - Greatness v genius the eternal sporting conflict / Simon Barnes
2006 - Comparing Greats / Rahul Misra
2006 - Sampras - The greatest ever? / Pratyush Khaitan
2006 - More on Federer v. Sampras / Sean Randall
More articles on the Sampras-Federer debate...
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For Pete's sake, let's give Sampras his due / Gary Shelton
We took Sampras for granted / Ray McNulty
Sampras is a study in greatness / Josh Bean
Missing the man, missing the magic / Nirmal Shekar
Sampras' departure left us all with void / Peter Kerasotis
Wimbledon is missing something major / Richie Whitt
Greatest Champions: Pete Sampras / Alix Ramsay
A million thanks Pete... for the memories / Nirmal Shekar
No one in our lifetimes will top Sampras / MaliVai Washington
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2003 - At the core of champions / Steve Wilstein
(the similarity between Sampras and Lance Armstrong)
2003 US.Open - Sampras - the absent king / Piers Newbery
2003 US.Open - Retirement Ceremony
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2003 Official-Retirement Tributes:
Silent Warrior / David Higdon
(Reflecting on Sampras' lonely, painful and glorious career)
Farewell to Sampras the self-effacing superstar and champion / John Roberts
Sampras was anything but boring / Tom Rife
Sampras soars higher than Rocket / Charles Bricker
The Quiet American: Pete Sampras / Hemal Ashar
Sampras was the equal of my idol Laver / John McEnroe
Pause to honor Sampras this week, because he won't make the rounds / Tim Kawakami
A Salute to Pistol Pete / Alan Trengrove
A Great One Goes Out in Style / Sally Jenkins
Sampras' quiet style will be missed / Bruce Jenkins
Love, set, match for Sampras / Paul Daugherty
Sampras did it his way - with the class of Ashe / Stephen A. Smith
Sampras' slow exit his call, for Pete's sake / Bonnie Desimone
Grand finale / Jon Wertheim
(As he bows out, it's time to acknowledge Sampras as the best ever)
Pete Sampras's career of grit and low-key stardom / Jim Klobuchar
In Homage to Sampras, The Greatest US Open Player Ever / Matthew Cronin
He served up greatness / Richie Whitt
Sampras, kids prove sportsmanship exists / Greg Cote
Pete Not Your Usual Star / Chuck Culpepper
Sampras, thankfully, played it straight / Ian O'Connor
The great Sampras walks away / Matthew Cronin
A Quiet American / Jay Jennings
Game Sampras / Boston Globe Editorial
Tom Tebbutt Column
Farewell Is Both Touching and Tearful / Harvey Araton
Salute to a champion / Nirmal Shekar
The Man Who Was Too Good / S. L. Price (such a true article)
Serve, set, match / Aaron Wasserman
"The heart of a champion * What's in yours?" / Dr. Alan Goldberg
Sampras, the classic tennis player / Sukhwant Basra
The champion of champions / Nirmal Shekar
Pete Sampras: Best of All Time? / Vince Barr
More press segments
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2004 articles
Roddick is no Sampras ... yet / Stephen Winslow
2005 articles
Court of dreams / Rohit Brijnath
The top 10 / Pat Cash
(Male tennis players in the Open era)
Peter the Silent / Times Online Editorial
After seven Wimbledon titles, the words by Simon Barnes that moved a champion to tears / Neil Harman
Tennis Magazine's 40 Greatest Players of the Tennis Era: 1. PETE SAMPRAS / Stephen Tignor
2006 articles
Sampras Salute / Ali Eteraz
Federer's Foil? / Justin Gimelstob
2007 aritcles
Federer all class, but Sampras the king on grass / Nirmal Shekar
Hall of Fame (July 2007)
Sampras defined greatness / Peter Bodo
Class, style and dignity / Mike Szostak
Sampras one to savor / Brian Ettkin
Pistol Pete Let his racquet do the talking / Pete Alfano
Various
Sports Illustrated Century's Best - Tennis
ESPN SportsCentury - Pete Sampras plus
Revealing artiicle - New York Times, August 1995
Lesson Of The Heart - Pete writes about his late coach (July 1996).
Huge article - Sports Illustrated, May 1997
The Passion That Drives Pate Sampras - Ace Tennis Magazine, April 1998
Remembering 'Smiley' - Daily News, April 2000
Revealing interview - Ace Tennis Magazine, October 2000
Sampras vs. Agassi Rivalry
The above are Pete's best articles (in my view). For plenty other articles, visit the Archive
section at Pete Sampras' Resume or pete' Career Highlights at samprasfanz.org .
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