Pete's speech at the Tennis Hall Of Fame - Part 1

Pete gives a speech during his induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame on Saturday 14th July 2007.

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[receipt22]

15 titles or not. sampras is the better player. he had much more competition when was still on the tour. there were other world class players that competited him like agassi and becker, just to name two.

so therefore he is the greatest of all times.

federer is certainly not bad either but he does not have the greatness of Pete Sampras.

[beck5253]

Pete is the greatest player of all times

[SiaWinsi]

@receipt22 Also he was taken out of the US Open 1999 due to a back injury so he missed that US Open as well as the 2000 Australian Open, so he was potentially robbed of two extra majors

[vanny3331]

@Pundit2k You obviously don't know so much about tennis when you talk like this, competition was much more harder when Pete played. You also don't know that almost every surface now is much more slower that it was back then,Nadal wouldn't stand a chance on grass in the 90s. New age of tennis started in the 90s when Pete played,and also with Agassi.

[Pundit2k]

@receipt22 Sampras had great competition, but so did Federer. I think Nadal is greater than Agassi and Becker, and Djokovic is probably on par with those two. The sport has changed tremendously in the last ten years, and it's because the athletes have gotten better, not the racquets, strings or anything else. Federer ushered in a new age of tennis, and the only reason he didn't seem to have much competition early on is because everybody else is just now catching up. He's that good.

[andunusblick]

 1 sampras

2 federer

50 nadal

[hyperwarrior]

@timmcfly15 you're an idiot 16>14>10 pure imbecile you are

[timmcfly15]

I think he cried too much in this speech.

[83BM]

@timmcfly15 While ill agree that Nadal and Federer are great players. if they played Sampras in his prime i just don't think they would of been able to deal with that serve it was a killer serve of the likes ive never seen before. Espeically at Wimbledon.

[timmcfly15]

@receipt22 3 Greatest players of all time- 1.Nadal 2. Federer 3. Sampras

[kaztle13]

ohc ome on people the real GOAT is Pancho Gonzalez who was able to crank a serve at 120 with a woodie, in some tourney he was restrained to just hitting 1 serve, he couldnt go to the net, and some random shit that old organizers used to do just so the competition would be even so Pancho was and is the GOAT and Pete i think is right behind him since he stuck to just playing serve and volley and played in what you can call a faster era now no one play serve and volley cuz courts are slower

[sdnm86]

Pete Sampras is humility and class personified.