Editing Pete Sampras (section)

==Records and achievements==

===Records===
* These records were attained in [[Open Era]] of tennis.
* Records in '''bold''' indicate peer-less achievements.

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|1995 Wimbledon —<br /> 2000 US Open||8 consecutive finals appearances won{{#tag:ref|This record was achieved in non-consecutive Majors.  The record for most consecutive Grand Slam finals won is 4, achieved by [[Rod Laver]] in 1969 (the same year he achieved the [[Grand Slam (tennis)|Grand Slam]]) and [[Novak Djokovic]] in 2015—16.|group=lower-alpha}}||'''Stands alone'''
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|1992 US Open —<br /> 2002 US Open||11 consecutive years reaching 1+ final||[[Ivan Lendl]]
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|1989 Wimbledon —<br /> 2002 Wimbledon||90% (63–7) grass court match winning percentage||'''Stands alone'''
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|1990 US Open —<br /> 2002 US Open||Won a Grand Slam in teens, twenties and thirties||[[Rafael Nadal]]<br/>[[Ken Rosewall]]
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|rowspan="4"| US Open||1990–2002||[[List of US Open Men's Singles champions#Multiple champions|5 titles overall]]<ref>{{cite web|title=US Open Most Championship Titles Record Book |url=http://www.usopen.org/pdf/Record_Book_Most_Championship_Titles.pdf |access-date=August 26, 2012 |publisher=US Open |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110913191148/http://www.usopen.org/pdf/Record_Book_Most_Championship_Titles.pdf |archive-date=September 13, 2011 }}</ref>||[[Jimmy Connors]]<br/>[[Roger Federer]]
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|1988–2002||88.75% (71–9) match winning percentage ||rowspan="2"| '''Stands alone'''
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|1990||Youngest US Open champion<ref name=deuce>{{cite news |url=http://www.atpworldtour.com/News/DEUCE-Tennis/DEUCE-US-Open-2010/Pete-Sampras.aspx |title=DEUCE – Pete Sampras – The Making Of A Champion |publisher=ATP World Tour |first=James |last=Buddell |date=August 26, 2011 |access-date=February 4, 2012 |archive-date=March 13, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313090538/http://www.atpworldtour.com/News/DEUCE-Tennis/DEUCE-US-Open-2010/Pete-Sampras.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|1990, 1997|| 2 [[Grand Slam Cup]] titles||'''Stands alone'''
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|1990, 1992,<br/>1997–1998|| 4 [[U.S. Pro Indoor]] titles||[[Rod Laver]]<br/>[[Jimmy Connors]]<br/>[[John McEnroe]]
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===Professional awards===
* [[ATP Awards|ATP Player of the Year]]: 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.atpworldtour.com/Tennis/Players/Sa/P/Pete-Sampras.aspx |title=ATP Bio:Pete Sampras |access-date=June 26, 2009 |archive-date=June 21, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090621202954/http://www.atpworldtour.com/Tennis/Players/Sa/P/Pete-Sampras.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[ITF World Champions|ITF World Champion]]: 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998.<ref name=ITF>{{ITF}}</ref>

===Other achievements===
* Sampras (1997–2000) won four consecutive Wimbledon singles titles, equal to [[Novak Djokovic]] and second only to [[Björn Borg]] and [[Roger Federer]] (who have five consecutive titles each).
* During the Open Era, only Borg (1978–81 French Open and 1976–80 Wimbledon), Sampras (1997–2000 Wimbledon), Federer (2003–07 Wimbledon and 2004–08 US Open), [[Rafael Nadal]] (2005–08 French Open, 2010–14 French Open and 2017–20 French Open) and Djokovic (2018–2022 Wimbledon) have won at least one Grand Slam tournament four consecutive times.
* [[Ken Rosewall]], Sampras and Nadal are the only men to have won Grand Slam singles titles as a teenager, in their 20s, and in their 30s.
* Sampras won 40 of the 42 singles matches he played on Wimbledon's [[Centre Court]] and 63 of the 70 singles matches he played at the [[All England Club]]. His two defeats on Centre Court were against [[Richard Kraijcek]] at the [[1996 Wimbledon Championships]], and Federer at the [[2001 Wimbledon Championships]]. 
* Sampras is the only player to win all seven Wimbledon finals he played. In terms of most finals won at a single Grand Slam tournament without losing any, he is third in the Open Era behind Nadal (who won all fourteen of his French Open finals) and [[Novak Djokovic]] (who won all ten of his Australian Open finals).