[Doris Loeffel]

Apparantly Pete Sampras has cancelled all the remaining tournaments of this year including the Davidoff Swiss Indoors in Basel. No explicit reasons mentioned.

Herewith I open the next round of speculations about his retiremend

 

[TennisHack]

Whoa!! No way!! Surely not with that awful Wimbly result still out there.

Where did you hear this, btw? That's cutting edge

 

[Doris Loeffel]

Got it form our trash paper the Blick. So far nothing written on the web site which is:

http://www.davidoffswissindoors.ch


Just checked some other news sites. (also the one from Swiss-Tennis) They all have it that Sampras won't play any remaining trounament of this year.

 

[Lindsayfan]

u mean he wont play Bercy either?what about Master in Shangai?

 

[Doris Loeffel]

nope none of them.
It's even on atptennis.com now

 

[Mrs. B]

Pete can retire right now and his 14 Grand Slam titles will never be surpassed by anyone. Unlikely...

Too bad him not making it to Basel, that would have been a big bonus for me going there...

Yet, when i heard the news, i was not surprised.

 

[zzzyyy]

Pete can retire right now and his 14 Grand Slam titles will never be surpassed by anyone. Unlikely...

Too bad him not making it to Basel, that would have been a big bonus for me going there...

Yet, when i heard the news, i was not surprised.

10 years later... 2 guys are about to pass him

 

[Litotes]

10 years later... 2 guys are about to pass him

Strictly speaking one one is about to pass him, the other one did a couple of years ago At the time I didn't see that one coming either, even though I wondered about about the large difference between the male and the female record. Sampras did play at the same time as Graf, after all. And Graf didn't even beat Court....