Editing Pete Sampras (section)

===Career summary===
Sampras won 64 top-level singles titles (including 14 Grand Slam titles, 11 [[ATP Masters Series|Super 9/ATP Masters Series/ATP World Tour Masters 1000]] titles and five [[Tennis Masters Cup]] titles) and two doubles titles. He was ranked the [[List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players|world No. 1]] for a total of 286 weeks (the third most in the Open Era after [[Novak Djokovic]] and [[Roger Federer]]) and was year-end No. 1 for an ATP record six consecutive years from 1993 through 1998. He is regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://lobandsmash.com/2021/01/11/pete-sampras-real-goat-eye-opening-debate/ | title=Was Pete Sampras the real GOAT? | date=January 11, 2021 | publisher=Lob and Smash | accessdate=24 April 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.tennisfame.com/hall-of-famers/inductees/pete-sampras | title=Among the best ever to wield a racquet | publisher=Tennis Hall of Fame | accessdate=24 April 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/olympics/longterm/tennis/sampras.htm | title=Pete Sampras career highlights | newspaper=Washington Post | accessdate=24 April 2024}}</ref>

Sampras was known for his natural attacking serve-and-volley game, all-round game, and strong competitive instinct. Sampras's best surface was undoubtedly the fast-playing grass courts,<ref group=lower-alpha>based on total wins per surface.</ref> Sampras won seven Wimbledon Gentleman's Singles titles (1993–95, 1997–2000), broken only by a loss in the 1996 quarterfinals to eventual winner [[Richard Krajicek]]. Sampras's seven Wimbledon Gentleman's Singles titles, tied with [[William Renshaw]] and [[Novak Djokovic]], has only been surpassed by Federer who won a record eighth Gentleman's Singles title in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/draws_archive/champions/gentlemenssingles.html |title=Gentleman's Singles |website=www.wimbledon.com |access-date=February 9, 2022 |archive-date=January 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200121032935/https://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/draws_archive/champions/gentlemenssingles.html |url-status=live }}</ref>  Sampras is lauded by many tennis analysts as one of the greatest male grass-court players of all time.<ref name="theguardian.com"/> Sampras also shares the record of five US Open titles in the Open Era with [[Jimmy Connors]] and Federer. He won back-to-back US Open titles in 1995 and 1996, despite vomiting on the court at 1–1 in the final set tiebreak due to dehydration in the 1996 quarterfinals against [[Àlex Corretja]]. Combined with his two Australian Open titles, this gave Sampras a total of fourteen majors won on grass and hard courts.

Sampras's only real weakness was on clay courts, where the slow surface tempered his natural attacking serve-and-volley game. His best performance at the French Open came in 1996, when he lost a semifinal match to the eventual winner, [[Yevgeny Kafelnikov]]. Despite his limited success at Roland Garros, Sampras did win some significant matches on clay. He won a 1992 clay court tournament in Kitzbühel, defeating [[Alberto Mancini]] in the final. He won the prestigious [[Rome Masters|Italian Open]] in 1994, defeating [[Boris Becker]] in the final, and two singles matches in the 1995 Davis Cup final against Russians [[Andrei Chesnokov]] and [[Yevgeny Kafelnikov]] in Moscow. Sampras also won a 1998 clay court tournament in Atlanta, defeating [[Jason Stoltenberg]] in the final.