{"id":727,"date":"2007-08-28T13:01:47","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T17:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/2007\/08\/28\/sampras\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T16:44:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T16:44:04","slug":"sampras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=727","title":{"rendered":"Pete Sampras \u6851\u666e\u62c9\u65af 1971"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of US Open, Pete gave an rare interview with FT, in which he mentioned that his era was different from current\u00a0Federer&#8217;s where there is much less real competition.\u00a0 I agree.\u00a0 It gets so\u00a0boring that we see FedEx plays on Sundays and wins all the time.\u00a0 Thanks god he doesn&#8217;t grunt, and moves fluidly with impeccable form, especially single hand backhand.\u00a0 The only player who has an edge over him is Rafael Nadal, but it&#8217;s only limited on clay, so FedEx\u00a0ends up with\u00a0other 3 slams.\u00a0 In no time, he&#8217;ll surpass Pete&#8217;s 14 slams record.\u00a0 Sampras still has bit fire in his belly, for he said IF he gets in shape, he&#8217;ll still be a force to reckon with on grass.\u00a0 WTG, Pete!\u00a0 Yuan Meng&#8217;s practice partner Ras said he saw Pete from time to time in LA, &#8220;he plays 3x a week, keep in shape &#8230; plays with everyone ..&#8221; <span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">page<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2010.08.26, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpworldtour.com\/News\/DEUCE-Tennis\/DEUCE-US-Open-2010\/Pete-Sampras.aspx\">Making of a Champion<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2008, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46165\">A Champion&#8217;s Mind<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>1991, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=39856\">unfairness of the commentator in Europe<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of US Open, Pete gave an rare interview with FT, in which he mentioned that his era was different from current\u00a0Federer&#8217;s where there is much less real competition.\u00a0 I agree.\u00a0 It gets so\u00a0boring that we see FedEx plays on Sundays and wins all the time.\u00a0 Thanks god he doesn&#8217;t grunt, and moves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}