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1993–1996
Sampras reached the semifinals of the
Australian Open in early 1993, and matched the previous year's quarterfinal performance at the French Open. In April 1993, Sampras attained the World No. 1 ranking for the first time. His rise to the top of the rankings spot was controversial because he had not recently won any Grand Slam titles,
[21] but he justified his ranking three months later by claiming his first
Wimbledon title, beating former World No. 1 Jim Courier in the final. This was followed by his second
US Open title. He finished the year as the clear No. 1 and set a new
ATP Tour record that year by becoming the first player to serve more than 1,000 aces in a season.
Except for a loss in the 1996 quarterfinals to eventual winner
Richard Krajicek, Sampras would continue to win at Wimbledon for the rest of the decade, becoming the most successful male player in Wimbledon history.
[22]
Sampras won the first of his two Australian Open titles in 1994, defeating American
Todd Martin in the final. In 1995 Sampras experienced one of the most emotional matches of his career when he played Courier in the quarterfinals.
[23] Sampras's longtime coach and close friend,
Tim Gullikson, had mysteriously collapsed during the tournament and was forced to return to the United States. Gullickson was later diagnosed with brain cancer to which he succumbed the following year. Saddened by Gullickson's illness, Sampras began visibly weeping during the match, but managed to win. He lost the final to Agassi.
Paul Annacone took over as Sampras's full time coach after Gullickson's illness made it impossible for him to continue coaching.
Sampras's best surface was undoubtedly the fast-playing grass courts.
[24] He was also known for his all-round game and strong competitive instinct. He won back-to-back US Open titles in 1995 and 1996, despite in the 1996 quarterfinals against Àlex Corretja, vomiting on the court at 1-1 in the tiebreak. Sampras's only real weakness was on clay courts, where the slow surface tempered his natural attacking serve-and-volley game. His best performance at the French Open came in 1996, when he lost a semifinal match to the eventual winner,
Yevgeny Kafelnikov. Despite his limited success at Roland Garros, Sampras did win some significant matches on clay. He won a 1992 clay court tournament in Kitzbühel, defeating Alberto Mancini in the final. He won the prestigious
Italian Open in 1994, defeating
Boris Becker in the final, and two singles matches in the 1995 Davis Cup final against Russians
Andrei Chesnokov and
Yevgeny Kafelnikov in Moscow. Sampras also won a 1998 clay court tournament in Atlanta, defeating
Jason Stoltenberg in the final.
He won all men's single titles at
Wimbledon between 1993 and 2000 with the exception of
1996 when he was defeated in the quarter finals by
Richard Krajicek who eventually won the trophy.
[edit] 1997
Sampras won his second and final Australian Open title in January, defeating
Carlos Moyà in the final; in July he won Wimbledon for the fourth time, defeating
Cédric Pioline in the final. Sampras also won singles titles in
San Jose, Philadelphia,
Cincinnati,
Munich, and
Paris and the
ATP Tour World Championships in
Hanover, Germany. He became the only player to win both the
Grand Slam Cup and the
ATP Tour World Championships in the same year.
He had a 10-1 win-loss record against top 10 opponents and was undefeated in eight singles finals. He held the
World No. 1 ranking for the entire year and joined
Jimmy Connors (1974–1978) as the only male players to hold the year-end World No. 1 ranking for five consecutive years. His prize money earnings of US$6,498,211 for the year was a career high.
[edit] 1998
In 1998, Sampras's number-one ranking was challenged by Chilean player
Marcelo Ríos. (In 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997, Sampras had dominated the ATP tour.) Sampras failed to defend his
Australian Open title, losing in the quarterfinals to
Karol Kučera, and won
Wimbledon only after a hard fought five-set victory over
Goran Ivanišević. Sampras lost a five-set
US Open semifinal to the eventual winner
Patrick Rafter after leading the match two sets to one. He lost another semifinal at the Tennis Masters Cup to eventual champion
Àlex Corretja. Nevertheless, Sampras finished the year as the top ranked player for the sixth year in a row.
[edit] 1999
1999 also started out disappointingly, as Sampras withdrew from the Australian Open and failed to win a title during the early part of the season. However, he then went on a 24-match winning streak, including the
Stella Artois Championships,
Wimbledon (equaling
Roy Emerson's record of 12 Grand Slam singles titles),
Los Angeles, and
Cincinnati. His victory over Agassi in the Wimbledon final is often cited as one of Sampras's greatest performances. That run ended when he was forced to retire from the
RCA Championships and the US Open because of a herniated disc in his back. Sampras's ranking was hurt through a combination of withdrawing from the Australian and US Opens, tournaments in which he had strong performances during the previous year, and the resurgence of longtime rival
Andre Agassi, putting an end to Sampras' six consecutive years of finishing as the World No. 1. Agassi took over the top ranking and held it for the rest of the season, but Sampras recovered and managed to beat him in the season-ending
Tennis Masters Cup for the fifth and final time, enabling Sampras to place 3rd in the rankings.
[edit] 2000s
Sampras reached the semifinals of the
Australian Open in early 2000 (falling to the eventual champion Agassi in a five-set match) and won the
Ericsson Open in
Key Biscayne, Florida for the third time in March. He then won a
record-breaking 13th Grand Slam title at
Wimbledon, battling through a painful shin injury in the process.
[25] This victory was his eighth consecutive win in a Grand Slam final (starting at 1995 Wimbledon), which remains a record. After this victory, Sampras did not win another title for more than two years. He lost in the finals of the
2000 and
2001 US Open to
Marat Safin and
Lleyton Hewitt, respectively, leading many to speculate that Sampras would never capture another major title. At the
2001 Wimbledon Championships, Sampras lost to
Roger Federer, who was 19 at the time, 6-7(7), 7-5, 4-6, 7-6(2), 5-7 in the fourth round, ending Sampras's 31-match winning streak at Wimbledon. The match also marked the first and only time that the two men ever played each other on the ATP tour.
[edit] 2002
In 2002, Sampras suffered his second consecutive early exit from Wimbledon, losing in the second round to 145th ranked
George Bastl of Switzerland, whose best surface was red clay. Sampras had a relatively poor summer leading up to the
US Open.
Greg Rusedski, whom Sampras had defeated in a long five-set third round match at the US Open, said that Sampras was "a step and a half slower" and predicted that Sampras would lose his next match. Sampras, however, then defeated two young and upcoming stars of the game,
Tommy Haas in the fourth round and
Andy Roddick in the quarterfinals. He then defeated
Sjeng Schalken in the semifinals to reach his third straight US Open final, and eighth US Open final overall, tying
Ivan Lendl's all-time record. This time, he faced Agassi, whom he had met in his very first Grand Slam final 12 years earlier. After a four-set battle between the two veterans, Sampras claimed a then record 14th Grand Slam singles title and matched
Jimmy Connors's record of five US Open singles championships.
He played no tour events in the following 12 months, but did not officially announce his retirement until August 2003, just prior to the US Open. He chose not to defend his title there, but his retirement announcement was timed so that he could say farewell at a special ceremony organized for him at the open. After retirement, many regarded Sampras to be the greatest player of all time.
[26]
Sampras won 64 top-level singles titles (including 14 Grand Slam titles, 11
Super 9 / ATP Masters Series titles, and five
Tennis Masters Cup titles) and two doubles titles. He was ranked the
World No. 1 for a record 286 weeks and was year-end No. 1 for a record six consecutive years from 1993 through 1998.