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Sampras says Federer worthy of his record for most Grand Slam career titles LONDON — Pete Sampras remains confident that Roger Federer will beat his record for most career Grand Slam singles titles. In fact, Sampras plans to be sitting among Federer’s most vocal supporters when he does win a 15th career major – even if that requires a lengthy flight to Melbourne, Australia. Federer has 12 Grand Slam titles, two behind Sampras’ record. If Federer won a sixth straight Wimbledon title next month and a fifth consecutive U.S. Open title in September, he would be aiming for No. 15 at the Australian Open in January. “There is a burning desire in Roger to break my record, and when he does it I would like to be there,” Sampras said Thursday. “I said to Roger, … Read entire article »

Schedule of Play June 19: Pete Sampras vs. Fernando Meligeni (6-3, 4-6, 10-6 TB) Tweet … Read entire article »

Whom did you enjoy playing against the most? Francis Eleazar HOFFMAN ESTATES, ILL. Andre Agassi was my rival in the ’90s, and I think as we got older we sort of transcended the game. He was probably the best player I ever played over my career. There’s a list of players that were tough, but Andre, certainly, he was the most unique. Did a time come when you felt you had had enough of competitive tennis? Nico Neethling RUSTENBURG, SOUTH AFRICA After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left … Read entire article »

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Pete Sampras has released his autobiography called “A Champion’s Mind – Lessons from a Life in Tennis”. Product Description (from Amazon)Pete Sampras is arguably the greatest tennis player ever, a man whose hard-nosed work ethic led to an unprecedented number one world ranking for 286 weeks, and whose prodigious talent made possible a record-setting fourteen Grand Slam titles. While his more vocal rivals sometimes grabbed the headlines, Pete always preferred to let his racket do the talking. Until now. In A Champion’s Mind, the tennis great who so often exhibited visible discomfort with letting people “inside his head” finally opens up. An athletic prodigy, Pete resolved from his earliest playing days never to let anything get in the way of his love for the game. But while this single-minded determination led to tennis … Read entire article »

USA Today Throughout his record-setting career, Pete Sampras revealed himself only in fragments as he adhered to a “disciplined quest to accumulate Grand Slam titles,” he writes in his new memoir, A Champion’s Mind (Crown Tweet … Read entire article »