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In tennis, pete sampras had andre agassi, and bjorn borg had his infamous contention with john mcenroe. Pete sampras would like a sitdown with longtime american rival. Pete sampras was my favorite player as a kid because he had such an overpowering game an was so consistently great and this book takes you closer to his perspective of it all. Pete sampras is arguably the greatest tennis player ever, a man whose hardnosed work ethic led to an unprecedented number one world ranking for 286 weeks, and whose. As a child pete sampras picked up a tennis racket and it just felt comfortable in his hand. With the quieter pete sampras and emotional andre agassi a generation earlier, the same was true despite their differing personalities and server versus returner billing. Pete sampras is arguably the greatest tennis player ever, a man whose hardnosed work ethic led to an unprecedented number one world ranking for 286 consecutive weeks, and whose.
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Read about the career of pete sampras and what he accomplished in the tennis world. He has won the wimbledon championships seven times and has won 14 grand slams overall, which was a record until. Pete sampras was the youngest male player to win the us open and holds 64 top level singles titles and two doubles. Pete sampras is arguably the greatest tennis player ever, a man whose hardnosed work ethic led to an unprecedented number one world ranking for 286 weeks, and whose prodigious talent made possible.