With that serve to the forehand Sampras really upped the ante often, challenging the opponent to come up with something, often they couldn’t. The other benefit of this tactic was reverse ...

The chair umpire warned Sampras for ball abuse when he hit one 20 feet up after sending a forehand wide at 3-3 in the fourth set. At another juncture, Sampras threw his racket to the ground with a ...

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 ...

Agassi was clearly shocked by the weight of shot from Sampras’ forehand and backhand returns and didn’t find a rhythm until the third set. By that stage it was all about catch up, and despite ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...