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Long Live the King of Courts by Cynthia Smith (UK)

Long Live the King of Courts by Cynthia Smith (UK)

Sampras Completes The Circle Arthur Ashe Court at Flushing Meadows, New York on Monday evening, 25th August, 2003 was packed with more than twenty thousand expectant tennis lovers. Pete Sampras, five-time winner of the US Open, was due on court shortly, as he had been almost every August for the past fifteen years. But this year was different. This year Pete was not competing. The greatest competitor of them all had decided he must make the … Read entire article »

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Video link: French TV interview

Link to an interview from a French TV. Source: France TV Tweet … Read entire article »

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Pete at David Letterman [August 26, 2003]

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Farewell Is Both Touching and Tearful

[August 26, 2003 HARVEY ARATON] It was veiled panic that Agustin Moreno believed he detected in the teenager across the net out on Court 18 of the National Tennis Center. It was fear. It was Pete Sampras, down a break in the third set after losing the second, ready to quit, or so it seemed. “It was weird, he started hitting everything as hard as he could but with no emotion, nothing in his eyes,” Moreno said. “Every shot, every second serve, as hard as the first. To be honest, I thought he was tanking.” How could Moreno, a Mexican, only 22 at the time, have then known that Sampras’s poker face was nearly as impossible to read as his scorching serve? This was 1989, the first round of the United States Open, … Read entire article »

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Newsboard under reconstruction

Our newsboard disappeared into cyberspace. We are in the process of reconstructing the contents. Please bear with us. Thanks. Tweet … Read entire article »

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