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  • Who ever said ṡampras was faking clearly never followed this man career to know the integrity he carried as an athlete.

  • enorme!!!!!! sampras restera pour moi le plus grand de tous les temps

    quel jeu il avais, et tres beau a voir jouer. cè toi le meilleur pete

  • Unbelievable!

  • sampras is the best player ever,,,the way he does his aces,,backhand and forehand...he's amazing player

  • ...is this tears from my eyes?

  • I've seen this video so many times but I've never seen him throw up.. at which point did he throw up exactly???

  • @kelvin623 in part 1

  • And some idiots (ex-pros and even pros) claimed that Sampras FAKED vomiting. Dont wanna go into specifics:-)

    It takes a complete sick brainless jealous fuck to pull off a horseshit like this.

  • This match,then Wimbledon final in 2008 and Rafter vs Ivanišević the best matches in Tennis history,no doubt !!!

  • @dsam771

    Lol no, he threw his racquet into the crowd. The shot was cut off and made it look like he threw the finger xD.

  • One of the best tennis match ever!

  • at 0:58 sampras is skilled enough to make corretja fall on his puke lol

  • The best match ever played

  • I remember watching this live. I was like wow, he just puked! He kept it going. Won. This is why Pete is one of the greats.

  • and this is why tennis is the hardest sport to be great at.

  • The fucks today do NOT compare to Sampras and his era (90's). Balls had more air, grass blades were shorter, players were tougher (remember when serve and volley actually had merit).

    Today all guys play at the baseline - basically clay court tennis with slight variation offered by different color courts (i.e different surfaces). Yes im being sarcastic but the point is far from moot.

    Its a bygone era - the ivanesavics, beckers, agassis, couriers, petes e.t.c. Everyone had a winners heart.

  • @DunkinDonutful and how does agassi differ from todays players??

  • @telmolicious He doesn't but there is the proof of how today's players would have fared in the 90's. Bunch of Agassis, sort of top 5, maybe top 10, wining a slam here or there but never really dominating.

  • The fucks today do NOT compare to Sampras and his era (90's). Balls had more air, grass blades were shorter, players were tougher (remember when serve and volley actually had merit).

    Today all guys play at the baseline - basically clay court tennis with slight variation offered by different color courts (i.e different surfaces). Yes im being sarcastic but the point is far from moot.

    Its a bygone era - the ivanesavics, beckers, agassis, couriers, petes e.t.c. Everyone had a winners heart.

  • THALASAMIA IN PLAY FOR SAMPRAS.

  • @notta3d how do you fake puke?? u actually think he provoked it himself???

  • whats wrong with Pete there??? anyway, he wins even he is obviously really sick... plays very good tennis... that is what makes the best player ever!!!

  • how the fuck this has 57,091 views?? what the fuck you tards!!!!!!!

  • Poor Corretja what a loss to have to swallow.

  • alex corretja is one handsome little devil!

  • Just the best player of all time. Pete we miss u

  • that is the best serve I have ever seen: Pete down on his knees, lost his physical strength, unable to hit it hard and he hits and ace when he needs it most.

    Wow !

  • Alex was a class act. No words to describe Pete.

  • awesome. guy cries on the court once over his dying coach and wins. then sick from dehydration and wins again. his girlfriend of then was hot ;)

  • I saw this on ESPN Classic last night and had to find it on here.

  • lol at 2:41 "we love you pete!!!!"

  • Whatever happens, there is one thing about this guy... He was THE CHAMPION! e had an unbleievable heart and will that made him possible to overcome incredible obstacles... This match is just a sample how he could handle the drama. Federer cried over the bad moments and lost. Pete whatever was the intensity of the moment he was always prepared to be on top. He was the most amazing tennis player ever because he could always had an extra gear. Federer never had so many opponents as pete. MISS YOU!

  • what an actor...

  • who's the chick?

  • Sampras = balls of steel

    tennis legend in one of the most memorable matches in history of US Open, simply awesome

  • This is why Pete is the best of all time.

  • @IchbinBert nah.

  • He couldn't buy a title on clay....

  • 2nd serve, 6/6 at the 5th set tiebreaker the guy hits and ace wide. That's just ridiculous.

    Pete is the best ever.

  • Sorry, 7/7 at the tiebreaker. Wich only makes it even more ridiculous. My bad, Pete. ;)

  • You know you can damage your liver when your body can't handle it anymore that's why Pete puked. Dangerous proposition here considering Pete was worth millions.

  • In his book Pete basically admits that he refused to take his coach's advice and 'attack', so he grinded it out with a baseliner for 5 sets just to prove he could out baseline Corretja.

    He did it, but at what price lol.

    awesome match tho.

  • I remember seeing this match in 1996 when I was 11 years old. My entire family was a big tennis family. I remember watching this with my dad. We were shocked and amazed that Sampras could do this while heaving the entire time. Sampras is truly the best male tennis player, if not the best all-around tennis player, of all time.  Federer is good, but he doesn't have the same passion that Sampras has. You will always be a hero in my book Sampras.

  • I saw it when I was sixteen, but in the spanish side. Corretja was an average tennis player, but he did a wondeful job playing against the number 1. That was far one of the most memorables things that I have never seen on a tennis court.

  • Never was a huge fan Sampras, but my god, he was a spectacular player. Being an Agassi fanatic all my life, I couldn't help but be amazed at the amazing talent and athletic ability this guy possesed. This was truly a high spirited performance by a legend. Also, lots of a credit to Corretja, who's always been pure class, in victory and defeat.

  • HOLY CRAP 2nd serve ACE! wow, i'm never going to forgive myself if i quit on a match now. what a spirit! sampras truly is one of the greats

  • I strongly disagree. Pete sufferes from a disease known as Thalassemia, a blood disease which causes anemia. He did not disclose that he had this disease while playing because he did not want other players to know that he had it, which is why no one knew that this was why he was so sick on the court. (this happened a number of times in his career). Keep in mind also that pete needed IV fluids after the match because he was ill. He was not creating drama or faking as you suggested.

  • Thank you! I saw Pete play twice. He's amazing. One of my brother's has Thalassemia & I have pernicious anemia as well and on my mom's side we are of Greek decent. We both relate strongly to Pete's health problems.

    I'm 62 & have watched Pete for years. People make such ignorant statements because they are clueless about other people reality. Have you read his book, "A Champion's Mind: Lessons From a Life in Tennis", it's very revealing & very honest! Your comment was most insightful and true~

  • 6:19 Best second serve ever

  • This is what I'm talking about...REAL tennis players playing through illness...not like some punk a** players we have today retiring in the Aussie Open final b/c her 'tummy hurt'.

  • What he is able to pull off in 5.21-5.27 (the matchpoint) is once in a career

  • What complete crap you are speaking here...he showed the true spirit and heart of a champion here...he despite how ill he was feeling found a way to fight through to and win! Makes his achievements during his career even more amazing in my book!

  • Didn't know that Alex screamed that way lol

  • Why is Pete Sampras in such bad shape?

  • Are you kidd ing me lol. Hes in amazing shape. He had the flu when playing this match hahah thats hy he was throwing up. Im not trying to be an ass by the way because you didnt know.

  • Amazing match...Sampras showed the true heart of a champion...even though he was sick he wanted it so bad and went for it...simply the greatest!

  • It's ok cause Corretja somehow had a fair "rematch" in the 1998 Master' semifinal which was another very close meeting and went on to win the title (just like Pete here!) coming from to set to love down against Moya!

  • poor corretja, he did an awesome match

  • dang, lost on a double fault.

  • Laver and Sampras played serve and volley and had strong groundies. They are the best ever if you study the game. Practically every player today only play from the backcourt. There is hardly any difference between clay and grass.

  • Increible partido!!! yo lo vi...

  • why is the quality of this one worse than part 1?

  • Match point down, full stretch to get to that passing shot; 8-8, 2nd serve ace.

    Puked his guts, had plenty left to win.

  • And some people tell me Pete Sampras is boring to watch. HAHA this man is the best ever.

  • Pete is only boring to watch at wimbledon

  • @moffettman02 - Better than Federer

  • @Hypnos7 I wouldn't say plenty left. :-) The double fault at the end helped a bit too. Amazing effort though.

  • sampras deserved 2 win that title as he did

  • I remember seeing this live on TV as it unfolded - easily one of the most memorable games I've ever seen and a true testiment to a champion that will live on long after his grand slam record will have been broken.

  • now this should be the best match ever

  • 1. Sampras 2. Federer 3. Borg 4. Lendl 5. Connors 6. McEnroe 7. Agassi 8. Becker 9. Edberg 10. Wilander 11. Nadal 12. Vilas 13. Nastase 14. Courier 15. Hewitt
  • where's Laver???

  • @bezimeni10

    Sampras 14 - Nadal 6

    How the fuck can be Nadal number two instead of Sampras?

  • @ak47binladen 3 months later: Sampras 14 - Nadal 8

    ;)

  • If Laver is nowhere on your list, it can easily be assumed that you no nothing about tennis.

  • Yeah you're right... Laver won the Grand Slam twice and missed the prime of his career.

  • @fabianrosa 0.0 How the hell did you forget Laver?

  • Great tennis @5:20, on Corretja's match point!

  • I think roddick, safin, hewitt, etc. were also great players in their time. They all would have won at least 2-3 more grand slams if it wasnt for federer, you cant underestimate them like that, and say federer just had nadal and djokovic in his era.

  • at 3:32 is that his girlfriend?

  • yea I think they went out for 4 years, russian or australian I believe.

  • Yep, his Ex, they separated and now he´s married and has a child.

  • Pretty amazing, even commentators speechless

  • best match ever i think. i remember it so vividly

  • mmm something tells federer and nadal will see each other again at the current UsOpen and is gonna be like this one. federer fighting for every single point. i hope he wins. Go Roger!!!

  • well it didn't happen

  • yea but federer still won :)

  • what?

  • Aren't enough words even.

  • As there are enough characters available to launch a proper argument / debate regarding Sampras, Federer, Nadal et al, what I will say is that I think when people say the game is tougher now, what I think they actually mean is that the game is now physically more demanding, rather than the competition posed by other players being tough, because as momoaoun has correctly pointed out, Federer, Nadal and Djokovic are streaks ahead of everyone, and you could even separate those three individually.

  • are u kidding me??? tennis tougher now than before???? Fckng retards .... sampras in middle 90s would have been the Nr:1 today.. Sampras plaeyd legends, Sampras played the best.. What?? today u got djocovic, federer and nadal.. Tennis tough today??? Makin me laugh u idiots.. Simply best of all times Pete.. No one could hit a forehand like him or play the tennis volley game like him... even when everyone said he's done he came back and won US open in 2002.. Bet he could had won one more time...

  • I totally agree with you there. Pete's time was more tougher coz he has so many talented opponents unlike today which you can count on your 3 digit. Pete's all over game is non comparable. He has the best serve, volley, running 4hand, dunk overhead and he seems to float like dander all over the court. He glides magically to intercept were the balls were going next. And his stoic expression on court leaves his opponents frustrated. He can easily erased breakpoint with an ace over and over again.

  • You certainly can compare today to then. Sampras of 1996 would have been top three in the world 2008. This is not ancient history.

  • My god sampras is simply the best. But considering how tough and competitive tennis has become now, roger will become the greatest of all time when he gets the 15th grand slam title.

  • Tough and competitive? It's only Federer, Nadal, and Djokovich.

    And if 2 of those big names go down in a slam, the 3rd always wins.

  • Amazing match and amazing to watch Pete fight through all of that. You can't compare the tennis of the past to the tennis of today, but it was players like Pete that raised the bar to what it is today.

  • A very good match this was. I remember it, it was emotional

  • MY GOD!! he can barely walk, he is about to fall. amazing how he played this game sampras, he is JUST the BEST

  • hahaha imagine how would that turn out, who would've won?? hhmmmm i wonder....

  • Dear Pete, you look awsom... thank god you did not have a Rafa as an opponent that day...

    cheers...

  • it wouldnt have gone 5 sets against rafa...

  • but sampras could handle rafa...this isn't clay

  • There are dozens of players throughout history (Laver, Borg, Lendl, Agassi, Federer, etc) that could have beaten Pete on that night. That's utterly irrelevant. The point is that he won when he wasn't playing or feeling his best.

  • ???

  • I was saying pete would have beaten rafa before it went five sets.

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