Sampras entered the tournament as the defending champion but was ousted in the last eight by eventual runner-up Jim Courier. The then-20-year-old said in his post-match press conference that he felt ...

Four-time Grand Slam champion Jim Courier wasn't pleased with Pete Sampras' post-match comments following their quarterfinals clash at the 1991 US Open. Sampras won his maiden Grand Slam title at the ...

Pete Sampras was raised to deeply appreciate tennis’ history, his education strongly focused on the powerful lure of Wimbledon and the US Open. When it came to tennis’ premier team event, though, ...

PHILADELPHIA — Pete Sampras remains too good too be true. He respects umpires, lauds opponents, signs autographs and obliges sponsors. In a more genteel age, none of this would be out of the ordinary.

Pete Sampras was eager to play a lot of matches during the Prudential Securities Tennis Classic this week. So much so, he decided to play doubles in addition to singles, something he hadn’t done since ...

They are players, all agreed, who could have won the Wimbledon singles title this year. Saturday night, however, Pete Sampras and Goran Ivanisevic were just two more grass-stained casualties of a ...

Seven months ago, Pete Sampras was an unknown, highly regarded tennis player, one of a handful of American teen-agers expected to rise to the top of the tennis world one day. Then came the 1990 U.S.

Pete Sampras and Jim Courier faced off in the first all-American final at the year-end championships in more than a decade. After storming to the 1990 US Open title as a 19-year-old, Pete Sampras ...

Early struggles — However, he struggled in his early years there. After two first-round exits, a youthful Sampras lost to fellow American Derrick Rostagno in round two in 1991.

There can never be enough analysis of one of tennis' most successful players, so following last week's look at Pete Sampras’ technical game and core elements, I am now going to discuss how he did ...