Pete Sampras

Pete Sampras (born August 12, 1971, in Washington, DC), is a former World No. 1 Greek-American tennis player. He is considered by many to be the greatest male tennis player of all time, having won a record 14 Grand Slam men's singles titles and finished the year as No. 1 on the ATP world rankings for a record six consecutive years. He won the men's singles title at Wimbledon a record seven times. He also won the US Open five times and the Australian Open twice. However the one major championship which eluded him was the French Open.

Records

• Sampras won a record 14 Grand Slam titles over his career.
• He finished the year as No. 1 on the ATP Rankings for a record six years. He was also the only player to finish as No.1 for six consecutive years (1993-98).
• He was No. 1 ranked player in the world for a record 286 weeks.
• He was in the world top ten for 12 years; only Jimmy Connors, Ivan Lendl and Andre Agassi have stayed in the top ten for more years.
• He finished his career with a record $43 million in career prize money.
• He captured 64 titles over his career, which makes him fourth in the all time list of players with most career titles.
• He won 11 Masters Series titles, which places him second after Andre Agassi to win the most number of such tournaments (since 1990).
• He appeared in at least one Grand Slam final for 11 consecutive years (1992-2002), winning in eight straight (1993-2000).
• He and Ken Rosewall are the only men to win Grand Slam titles as a teenager, in their 20s, and in their 30s.
• He won at least one title for 11 straight years (1990-2000) and 12 of 13 (except 2001).
• He captured the ATP World Championship (now renamed the Tennis Masters Cup) a record five times in Germany (1991, 94, 96-97, 99). He shares this Open era record with Ivan Lendl.
• He compiled a 19-9 career Davis Cup record (15-8 in singles) and member of winning teams in 1992 and 95.
• He served a career-high 1,011 aces in 1993 to lead ATP circuit; also led in 1995 with 974 aces.
• He won a career-high 10 titles and compiled a personal-best 29-match winning streak in 1994.
• He won a career-best 85 matches in 1993 and on April 12th became the 11th player in the history of ATP rankings to reach the No. 1 spot.
• He was the youngest US Open men's champion at 19 years, 28 days in 1990.
• He compiled a 40-2 match record on Centre Court at Wimbledon and 63-7 overall at All England Club.
• He compiled a 762-222 record during his years on the circuit – winning more than 77% of all the matches he played in 15 years.