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Pete Sampras' Trophies, Memorabilia Stolen
By FanHouse Staff - AOL NewsPete Sampras lost a majority of the valuable artifacts of one of tennis' greatest careers when trophies and other memorabilia were stolen from a public storage facility. While Sampras still has 13 of his 14 Grand Slam trophies, he is now missing his first Australian Open trophy (from 1994) as well as trophies from 64 tour tournaments, an Olympic ring, seven ESPY awards, six trophies for being the world's No. 1 player in year-end rankings, and what he was presented for five season-ending ATP World Tour titles, two Davis Cup victories and 11 ATP Masters event titles. "Losing this stuff," he ...
Federer Becomes Fifth Player in Open Era to Win 50 Matches in 9 Straight Years
By Hal Spivack - AOL NewsAdd another accolade to Roger Federer's already impressive resume. A day after Federer played in his 900th ATP tour-level match, the 16-time Grand Slam champion claimed another accomplishment. On Friday, Federer won his 50th match of the season for the ninth straight year, defeating countryman Stanislas Wawrinka in three sets, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, at the Stockholm Open quarterfinals in Sweden. With the win, Federer becomes only the fifth player from the Open Era to win 50 matches for at least nine straight seasons. The club he joins includes Jimmy Connors, Guillermo Vilas, Stefan Edberg and ...
Roger Federer Reaches Milestone of 900 Career Tour-Level Matches
By Hal Spivack - AOL NewsRoger Federer became the first active ATP player to play in 900 tour-level matches on Thursday. The top-seeded, 16-time Grand Slam champion defeated American Taylor Dent, 6-1, 6-2, in just 50 minutes at the Stockholm Open in Sweden, logging his 727th ATP Tour victory in 900 total matches. What's even more impressive, the 29-year-old has never retired in any of the 900 matches, according to ATPWorldTour.com. And it's not the first milestone Federer has reached in Stockholm. His 100th career tour-level contest came the last time he played there in the 2000 season, ATP World Tour stat guru ...
Pete Sampras Knows All Too Well What Roger Federer is Going Through
By Greg Couch - AOL NewsTwenty-nine years old, and no longer on the perch. Most likely, Roger Federer will never get back onto it again, either. And even if he does, the inevitable is already closing in. It's an uncomfortable spot for a tennis superstar, for any world-beating athlete, really. Pete Sampras knows. Ten years ago, Sampras was here, where Federer is now. He was the Greatest Player of All Time (GOAT, in tennis lingo). Then, he won Wimbledon at 29, but fell from No. 1. Just over a year later, he was out of the top 10 for good. Federer is 29. He won the Australian this year, but has fallen from No. 1. And ...
From the Baseline: Federer's Run for 20
By Knox Bardeen - AOL NewsBetween 2006 and 2009 the pride of Switzerland, Roger Federer, won nine of the 16 Grand Slam tennis tournaments played. He even won three in a row to finish off the 2006 season and begin 2007. In that span of four years, Federer never went more than three Slams without winning one, always made it to at least the semifinals, and played in six Championship finals that he didn't win. Let's put that into perspective. Of the 16 Grand Slam tournaments in those four years, Federer played for the chance at the title in 15 of them -- all but one! The 2010 season hasn't been quite as dominating for ...
Roger Federer Sets Sights on 20 Grand Slam Titles Before Retirement
By FanHouse Newswire - AOL NewsLONDON (AP) -- Roger Federer has set himself a target of reaching at least 20 Grand Slam titles before he retires. The 29-year-old Swiss took his tally to 16 with a victory at the Australian Open earlier this year, but he failed to get beyond the quarterfinals at either the French Open or Wimbledon and has dropped to No. 3 in the world rankings, his lowest position since November 2003. However, despite his recent form, Federer told the BBC that winning 20 majors is a realistic aim. "I believe that having won three Grand Slams per season three times, and two per year a couple of times, it's ...
From Spoiled to Rotten, the Story of American Men's Tennis
By Greg Couch - AOL NewsPete Sampras used to warn us: American tennis fans were spoiled. Well, no chance of that anymore. The era of American dominance on the men's tennis tour ended a few years ago, but on Monday, the era of American presence ended, too. Andy Roddick fell to No. 11 in the world rankings, leaving a grand total of zero American men in the top 10 for the first time since they started having computer rankings in 1973. Zero. And this hasn't been so much of a gradual fall-off as a nosedive off a cliff since Sampras beat Andre Agassi in the U.S. Open final in 2002. In eight years, we've gone from the ...
All American Tennis Final in England
By Hal Spivack - AOL NewsWhile most of America and Great Britain has their attention fixated on Saturday's World Cup match between the two nations, USA has already exhibited their dominance on a different surface over the Atlantic on Saturday morning. It will be a surprising all-American tennis final in London on Sunday at the AEGON Championships. Two good friends and compatriots, Sam Querrey and Mardy Fish, will battle for the AEGON title in the first all-American finals matchup there since Todd Martin and Pete Sampras battled at the Queen's Club in 1994. In a field that boasted some of the highest caliber players ...
Federer-Nadal Needs Synthetic Set-Up
By Greg Couch - AOL NewsThis can't be all we're going to get. The Roger Federer-Rafael Nadal rivalry isn't going down as one of tennis' all-time great rivalries, but instead as its greatest untapped resource. What kind of rivalry is it when the people involved never play each other? Guess how many times Federer and Nadal have played each other since their classic Wimbledon final in July 2008, when Nadal won and tennis was a mainstream sport for an afternoon, and maybe for another day of office discussion. Twice. In nearly 21 months. The sport has benefited some. Federer was elevated into the mainstream and is no ...
The SportsLodge: Charity Debacle, Jerry Jones, Duke Madness
By FanHouse TV - AOL News"The SportsLodge" tees off on the Agassi/Sampras debacle, the fact that Duke shouldn't be a No. 1 seed and Jerry Jones as the new King of Boxing. ...
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