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    Wimbledon: How Pete Sampras defied injury to become 'the greatest' in

    Greek families are typically tight-knit. The Sampras family is no different, even though father Soterios (known as Sam) is second generation and the children - Pete, Gus, Marion and Stella - were all born in the United States too.

    Sam and his wife Georgia, born in the Greek city of Sparta, relocated from Maryland to California in the late s, when a young Pete Sampras picked up a racquet for the first time.

    "They weren't your typical tennis parents who are constantly coming out in a demonstrative way, being front and centre," says Flink, who has spent hours interviewing Sampras in recent years for his 'Greatness Revisited' biography.

    Right from the beginning of his career, mum and dad stayed out of the way. They allowed their son to flourish under the eye of the experts.

    Remarkably, they had never seen him win any of his previous 12 major titles in the flesh.

    Not that Sampr

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    Pete Sampras

    American former tennis player (born )

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    August 25, (official)
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    Joe Brandi (–)
    Tim Gullikson (–)
    Vitas Gerulaitis ( Rome)
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    Tom Gullikson (–)
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    "To be criticized for (being dull), it really pissed me off. I'm puzzled by it. What do these people want? Do they want someone to act like a jerk out there?"says Pete Sampras on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury show.

    His opponents weren't Agassi, Becker and Courier. They were Laver, Rosewall and Emerson.

    Pete Sampras wasn't playing for today; he was competing for history. And when he won his seventh Wimbledon championship in for his 13th Grand Slam singles titles, Sampras achieved his goal of winning the most majors.

    In , he extended his record to 14 bygd capturing his fifth U.S. Open.

    Although he earned $43,, on the ATP Tour, it was winning Grand Slams that consumed him. The easy-going, hard-hitting Sampras would have traded a dozen of his 64 Tour singles victories for one French Open. Let others play for money; he played for majors.

    During his career, he said, "I measure my year on how I do at the majors and the more that inom have won over the years, the more I want to win.