Sampras--sprightly, bouncy, running on his toes and gliding easily to the net; bouncing serves into every nook and cranny of the box or into the body or off a line; clocking his forehand with ...

Sampras stifled any first flickers of enthusiasm ... strokes Roddick could answer with little more than a hard forehand and a lightning serve at his disposal. In some ways, his incomplete game ...

Sampras, who started the match with an ace and three service winners, found himself under pressure at 3-3. Safin passed him with a forehand return for 15-40. Sampras served away the first break ...

Sampras developed the best running forehand in history, which he could hit down the line or crosscourt, flat or loaded with topspin if he was attacked. Unlike many players today, Sampras would hit ...

Moments later, Sampras was whacking a backhand return, and Rusedski was netting a forehand volley, and Sampras had his break for 4-5. “I should’ve closed that out,” said Rusedski ...

Sampras joked that he hoped it would turn into a nightmare. It would evolve into every bit of that for Roddick, whose jackhammer forehand never got going and who managed just 18 winners against ...

Sampras wins 7-6 6-4 but rules out comeback to main ATP tour Federer had won their two previous exhibition matches on Asian tour Next Article in World Sport » MACAU, China-- Pete Sampras rolled ...

His main coach, Pete Fischer, who didn’t play the game well himself, brought in specialists to fine tune Sampras’ forehand, volley and serve. It seemed to have worked out well. This was one of ...

Roddick’s only break-point chance was in the second game of the second set and Sampras saved it with a forehand volley. In the next game, Roddick was broken at love, hitting two double faults.

You hit a massive inside-out forehand wide from the ad court ... big serve-first volley crucial to a Major success (think Pete Sampras, Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg). The dynamics have now changed ...