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| That Pete Sampras,
only 26 years old, being already placed among the legends of tennis, is
a man for very important appointments is already known. After having won
practically all (we remind only the 5 Wimbledon, for convenience) and having
equalised the record of 12 won titles in the Slam, hold by Emerson, the
American champion, and obviously chasing prestigious chances, seems to
sip energies to spent. He leaves behind him a troubled season, occurring
accidents and up and down performances , but featured also by the angry
closeness of the Chilean Rios who in a pair of circumstances had
even dethroned him temporarily from the world title. The last aim, up to
him stature, during a year to be remembered mainly for the fifth hit in
the Temple of tennis, was an historical annals aim: ending for the sixth
consecutive time the agonistic season as the world number one. Only Jimmy
Connors has succeeded in it for 5 consecutive years from 1974 to 1978.
Sampras had this way the theoretical chance to give another little step into the history of world tennis. One of those peculiar incitements inducing the 26 years old Californian to go on in his career. It happened also the so comic as well as paradoxical situation when a foreseen and not secretly at all prepared party was celebrated in a hurry on the field by a Sampras in a Doctor Jekill and Mr. Hyde version ; disappointed by the course of the match and for the defeat on the preferred type of field, certainly not foreseen against a packed earth player as Corretja, and then the same satisfied for the aim achieved. |
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