Where did Sampras say he is a Djokovic fan?

@@Steve-fb6cs when did you started thinking Federer is better then Djoković? Cry

@@k.a.8366 well, everyone says so. Ask to anyone from the next gen, Even Djokovic has said that Federer es the GOAT.

But sampras have a more attractive game than Novak Djokovic

@@k.a.8366 yes he is and it's no surprise.

One of the best minds in sport. Jack Nicklaus is up there

@@John_Greek Nick Kyrgios is up there too

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Not EVERYTHING...Sometimes puts his Size 11s in his BUCKET MOUTH...

Same here, the Goat for me

he is GOAT till 2022 atleast...better than Fed, Nadal and Djo

Still my all time fave

Agree

he could of beat them all..just didnt give a fuk anymore

Pete's volley and Novak's mental toughness. Pure skill vs pure will!

No one would stand a chance

30 grand slams only dropping 5 sets in all of them

Pete didn't need anything else. He was magnificent

Sampras has amazing return.

oh definitely

I think the serve volley game includes that as well

or just the regular smash lol

Becker joined the chat

so correct !! he shud take lessons on the overhead

And Novak also returns that respect right back to Pete. You can see these two are really fond of one another. Novak even spent time with Pete back in 2011 when he first became #1 to get advise on how to handle being #1 in the world.

It cost him a little too much I daresay. I think he really slowed down results wise year around after 98, and mentally got burnt out from it. Might have played until mid 2000s otherwise and won a handful more slams, but regardless that's the one record he set that won't be broken anytime soon.

Hope Novak will be 7 x .. this year.. so He is above all..

He could easily be #1 7 years in a row if he didn’t skip the US open.

It's already decided. He is year end number 1 this year. Kinda not full year with funny ranking system but yeah. Hopefully, 2021 will be full tour year.

@@kwansikkim8712 I think she's referring to a 6th Atp Finals win.

Going for 20 GS now

@@Bambotb he's done it. hopefully #21 at US Open and 6th World Tour Final win soon.

he turned that prostaff 85 into a loaded weapon... would be absolutely terrifying what he would do in his prime with newer racket technology and the advancements they've made in Strings..... Andy Roddick had a HUGE serve.. but Pete's even though it wasn't as fast was always more dangerous.. to quote Jim Courier "Pete has such a presence on the court that is so tough to deal with and you can be as mentally tough as you want to be, you just can't deal with that serve"

I love that Pete has still love from fans around the world. He's such a legend and I love him so much, I also love and respect Nole a lot. From a Federer fan.

@@Eliath1984 The thing with Pete and his serve was, that he served so good when he needed it. You could almost expect an ace or two in a row when he was down 15:30 or15:40. Pete was absolutely unplayable on some days.

@@Bhavyo oh I totally agree sir... it was beautiful to watch... I mean he held what... 92% of his service games in the 90s? and won around 82% of his 1st serves in that same time period? it was just unbelievable to watch... and it wasn't because they were SO DANG FAST.. it was a combination of Placement.. spin... confusion... 1 of the hardest serves ever to read before it came off the racket

Nothing humble about Sampras.

Sampras is most borring pusy serve voley player,cant belive somone pay ticket to watch 3,4 shot point.If he play today he will be nothing,0 gs.

@@SuperNino111 it's 3-4 shot because he hits winners lol. Not everyone wants to watch 3-4 hour matches or 30-40 seconds between service games. Sampras took 2-3 seconds between serves

@@khale4nia no its not about winers its because he go on net after evry serve,and second before serve mean nothing to full time match.Federer,medvedev,ferer also have little time between serve.i dont uave nothing if somone use servis voley sometime,but he is anoying.

@ppm120667 ye but this is rare

@ppm120667 And it was one of Boris last, if not the last, exceptional performances.

but if you break it down he wasn't really *THAT* dominant in slams compared to say like the Big 3 1993- 2 1994- 2 1995- 2 1996- 1 1997- 2 1998- 1

The number 1 position requires great tennis throughout the year not just for 2 weeks every now and then

Having won all nine of the ATP Tour Masters 1000 tournaments is Djokovic's greatest achievement for me (especially as he competed in an era with Goat of clay). That record Djokovic stands alone!

@@olaraay slams don't show the truth. He was super dominant if you watched those years. People don't follow the sport I think. Players didn't choose all slams to go to those days they had chosen ones. The game has changed. Many things have changed. This is why taking numbers to judge big 3 is bs. Sampras in many aspects of the game and overall could be the goat still. I know people who follow the sport and tell me no one has been as dominant since. Sampras got super bored after 6 years at 29 and stopped training at 29. Then after 1.5 years of no training and a back injury that he really didn't see point at that point to play the sport and do all the added stuff to go back to form but also becasue he felt that since child it was all tennis, he got the old coach back for a month in 2002 for that us open and then changed stuff and did other stuff.

@@ChampionRogerFederer He actually did it twice which is an insane feat like Sampras staying number 1 for 6 years in a row. Doubt either record will be broken for a loooong time. That's the edge djo has against fed/Nadal.

Yes and its the 24th anniversary of that legendary 1996 final! It was the greatest match ever!

They were masterclasses. .

@@katerinapatiniotis5598 Did you watch that match, LIVE?

@@jeremycostello4007 Oh yeah!

so true

Your statement is correct but the true statement is Pete Sampras had 6 year end #1s in row !

@@KeyofDavid5778 if NOVAK DJOKOVIC have that what you saying everyone will be very quick on argument weakest competition 😃😃😃

Sampras did it first. So you should weitght time 1.5 or 1.3

@@trumpameri1638 Which is silly! Novak and PETE BOTH had amazing competition! Novak had the strongest top competitors ever with Fedal, while PETE had the deepest field ever with your 2nd tier ATG Agassi at the top, 3rd tier ATG Edberg/Becker/Courier in the middle, and slam champs/specialists like Kafelnikov, Rafter, GUGA, Goran, Kracijek, Henman at the bottom.

And now Novak got that!

My story of rediscovering my love for tennis is quite similar

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@Shuban Devarakonda Agassi's was better, for sure. But Pete's forehand was very good and underrated imo; less consistent than Agassi's because Pete went for high-risk shots. Probably the best running forehand of all time, though.

How many cringe idiotic comments are you going to make here?

@Shuban Devarakonda His forehand is consistently ranked in the top 5 after Fedal, and in the company of Borg and Agassi and Lendl. It was bigger than all of theirs, including Roger's.

Pete's backhand is underrated.

Tim had some amazing volleys, don't put the dude down ;)

Pete and Novak have a LOT in common as players. Both have/had the best single shot in the game at their times - Pete w/the serve, Novak with the return - and both were not crowd favorites and had to fight through that, though Pete didn't seem to really care that much if the crowd liked him or not which I think helped him immensely with stress. Novak sometimes invites undue stress on himself because he wants the crowd's acceptance.

I totally agree about Tim , its nice to see an interviewer not making it about themselves.

ATP Finals = 5/5 M1000 = 36/11 Total titles = 81/64

Six in a row is still difficult to match

@@slymon8369 Yup, but all the other numbers goes to Novak. He is greater than Pete

@@Noname-rj6gw No shadow of a doubt

What is the most amazing, Novak did it in the era of Nadal and Federer, all of them are the greatest of all time

wow..just the same with me. I miss that moment.

@@user-tq2rk6ns4u I was not an Agassi fan and when Pete beat him he became my favorite player. But it was 30 yrs ago. Wow where the time went.

Pete seems to have a strangely close relationship with Novak. I know they're both the strongest mental competitors of their eras, but curious why these two clicked so well. They were also not the most popular of their times and often ridiculed by the media, so maybe that's part of it too.

Nah, he was around long enough. I was there back in the day, and though I liked him, I didn't like him because his brand of tennis and personality was not as interesting as Agassi or Becker or Safin.

@@jfuite to each their own. I love Agassi and Ivanisevic for their personalities, but personality isn't a requirement if you can pull off attacking tennis the way a peak-Sampras did. Dude was so good he made extremely difficult things look like basic beginner routine.

@@hehehehehahahaha2025 Pete was my idol... his game was so beautiful.. even Defense was offense when it was coming off his racket.. that had to be extremely deflating for alot of opponents because when he was on.... there was absolutely nothing that you could do about it.. he was deceptively fast as well... even in later years when he didn't show it as much there were still glimpses of him putting on the afterburners and running a ball down and then just SMACK.. running forehand passing shot that makes you go.... "WOW" his game was so heavy.. It really spoke for itself.. His game WAS the personality.. and it did alotta talkin...

@@Eliath1984 you said it, man

@@sittingfool2727 he may not have been exciting and flashy for people that wanted big personalities but around my house when Sampras was playing and it was televised.. All 3 of my older sisters and I and my parents(who were responsible for giving us the love of the game) were at the TV.. and because of him I spent many a nights on the court just hitting buckets of serves by myself. I still find myself watching his old matches on KZfaq.. The man was god tier on any surface but Clay..

Volleys just meh compared to mac and edberg

@@dunsdonjone1537 Pete's serve and volley game was right up there with the best of the best. And he also played great baseline tennis beating guys like Agassi at their own game

Sampras is Fed’s idol

@@worawatsr9803 yes Sampras can be anyone's idol, because a lot of people like him and he is a legend hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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AND ONE ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE A GOAT!!!! (GUESS WHICH ONE...😂)

One of them actually eats grass after his grass court matches.

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yeah he was in GOAT form that summer

I remember that summer like right now! It was stupid incredible how he was killing anyone. He got injured practicing with guga Kuerten for the Open.

Sampras stopped caring at 29 years old.

The disease didn’t stop him whatsoever. It was his loss of motivation that prevented him from dominating even more.

Even Novak,he had the best season,17000 points in the current moment and still lost spot number 1 at the end from Murray just few points different. As well 2013, he lost number 1 spot from Nadal last month,for just few months before he returned to the number 1 again! Se he could easily be number 1 for 7,8 years already... But that's sport! That's why this year he's kicking off again!!! Let's hope that he can menage to win US OPEN!!! He's already The Greatest of all time,but with plus US OPEN,he will be God, immortal in tennis terms, which he's already!!! It's great to watch this legend's speaking together and sharing they're experience!!! One day when they're all gone, retire,Novak,Rafa and Fed,he's already done I think... Tennis will not be the same anymore!!! I mean,new youngsters will arrive,but still... Never again Era like this one,with Big 3!!! Big 1 actually, quite a while... But still, wholly trinity,Novak, Roger,Rafa!!! Never again in history of tennis!!!

It is funny how one sees these 2 legendary players and forgets that the 3rd one also was a really great player😁

Im a NO1E fan but AGASS1 was BETTER

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2 wannabe GOATdals 😂and tim henman 😂!!!

@@goldwolf0606 don’t insult Sampras like that though I agree with other one lol

Not hero, but your idol. There is a higher difference. Hero is someone who risks his life to save yours. Idol Simone you look up. Did Sampras risk his life to safe hours? If so, my respect for him.

He looks older than his age and maybe a bit frail. Could be the blood disease he carries or some kind of existential stress.

He looks a lot thinner.

Aahahah

King of hooliganism

@@Mlasse954 Aren't you a hater?

Fedal fans get more depressed and frustrated also western media desperate n despair after wimby event 2021.

Exactly

True that

No peak Djokovic cannot beat peak rafa on any clay surface ,it's impossible to do so

He beat him this year in his home yard! Even before he was better than Rafa at clay... But his desire to beat him at RG burned him!!! Anyway, he's the only one who beat Rafa twice at RG! And Rome, Madrid, Monte Carlo. He's the most complete and dominant player ever!!! He rules tennis over a decade!!! Only when he was out, injured nearly two years,Roger ménage to scratch three more GS, otherwise he will stay with 17GS. He couldn't win o r GS over 5 years, from 2012, before Novak get injured. Novak come back,he stays with 0GS. Rafa few,Novak all the rest! He's the greatest tennis player who ever lived!!! ❣️🏆🎾👊🤡👏❤️🇷🇸🇷🇸🐐🐐🐐🐐

@@Coa_Kralj_Coa_The_King yes but that was injured Rafa it was not peak Rafa he wasn't playing peak Rafa like last year RG did you not see Rafa completely destroyed Novak in the finale.

He is 49

@@sadikmuktar9961 I know his age. I said he "looks" 60 yrs old.

@@nichlao8637 Ok.

Yes, he looks 10 years older.

@@nichlao8637 He looks gaunt. This massive thinning of hair and what looks like weight loss doesn’t help. I hope he is healthy.

Björn Borg (born 6 june 1956) had 11 grand slams at the age of 25

@@vanlendl1 out of topic. I said atp final rank.

@@aaaa61616 u said GOAT, so its not out of topic anymore ...

Pete Sampras had 11 Slams at his 27,Borg at his 25

It is funny because I always dislike Agassi so much mostly because of his attitude but when he finished his tennis career and I watched his classic matches with Sampras Safin Becker Federer Kafelnikov and others and I just realized how good he really was...His game was simply flawless when he was in his zoom..When I look at the new generation of the players with big serve and waiting for return ball 20 feets behind baseline I wish he was back to give some lessons to the youngsters.

@@narcyznarcyz-uv4td Agassi was a guy who wore his heart on his sleeve, always showing whatever emotions he was feeling. That made him genuine, but generally less popular than Sampras due to how Sampras conducted himself throughout their career. Both are legends.

@@narcyznarcyz-uv4td I was a Sampras fan.. but I always appreciated what Agassi brought to the game.. and when they got together it was much watch tennis.. Sampras was always known more as a serve and volley guy.. Agassi was Aggressive Baseliner but Sampras said that he'd make it a point in those matches to stand back and bang with him because he knew that if he could beat Agassi at his own style he could kill his spirit.. made for a clash of the titans..

Agassi was not even close to winning at Wimbledon in 99...

@@narcyznarcyz-uv4td I feel like Agassi’s game would translate so well to the modern day. He was probably the 3rd best baseline player of all time behind only Nadal and Djokovic and just barely in front of Federer. I disagree with you on the “these kids need to stop standing 20 feet behind the baseline” though. It doesn’t work for everyone, but for very strong players like Thiem Nadal or Wawrinka it’s an incredibly effective strategy. They just get to hit the ball so hard off the return. Fun fact: Nadal is statistically the 2nd best of all time at breaking serve, ahead of Djokovic, Murray and Agassi.

Is Henman not a legend XD

@@shaana4079 no

Pete, if he had match point on his serve, he wouldn't do a 40-15 choke, Federer must feel cringy, and having nightmares, over Wimbledon 2019, Pete would have sent once ace down, and done the story!

@@pauljohnson6019 Depends on the equipment. With the pre-modern rackets they were using in the 80s/90s? Definitely Sampras, since the aggressive baseline game is just not possible. With modern rackets? 110% Djokovic. He's dealt with tougher servers.

Pete would wipe the floor with Novak on Wimbledon’s old Pete era grass. In the current slow conditions at Wimbledon it would be close. Novak takes Pete on hard courts and clay.

When was this recorded? Pete is wrong saying Novak is about to get to 6yrs as No 1. I’m sure Nadal ended last season as No 1

@@pauljohnson6019 prime pete vs prime Federer in Wimbledon??