WHY NOW? BECAUSE PEOPLE FORGET HOW GREAT WAS PETE SAMPRAS. HE DIDN'T WIN AS MUCH AS ROGER FEDERER...BUT ROGER DID NOT FACE AGASSI, BECKER, KUERTEN, EDBERG, COURIER... IN THEIR PRIME. You can only beat the players you have to face so it's not a knock on Roger, who's amazing but very often we can be prisoner of the moment, dismissing all players of the past.
Pete was the king of wimbledon and we truly thought we would never see better than him or that it would take a century. Then this lil kid from switzerland come and beat him like a symbol..life is a circle...in tennis too.
Maybe there's NO GOAT.
LEGEND 1
“When people keep calling you the greatest of ALL time, you can start to believe it….until a young man makes you realize that you’ re just the greatest of YOUR time…"
LEGEND 2
“Records are all made to be broken ... legacies are not !”
June 2nd 2001
Pete Sampras, seven times Wimbledon champion lose in the fourth round to the 19-year-old Swiss Roger Federer. It will be their first and unique meeting on the court................. READ THE FULL ARTICLE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED THAT DAY RIGHT HERE.
