Some obscure facts on tennis greats – part 1.

Sampras:

-Fischer was responsible for converting Sampras’s two-handed backhand to one-handed with the goal of being better prepared to win Wimbledon – at age 11.

-His parents are Greek.

-Sampras won 20 of the 34 matches he played against Agassi.

-Sampras used one racket type, the Wilson Pro Staff Original, for his entire professional career.

-Sampras’s older sister Stella is the women’s tennis head coach at UCLA, and his younger sister, Marion, is a teacher in Los Angeles. His older brother, Gus, has been tournament director at the Scottsdale ATP event, but from 2007 he became president of the firm managing Pete’s business activities.

-Sampras married American actress and former Miss Teen USA Bridgette Wilson.

-Sampras has thalassemia minor, a genetic trait that sometimes causes a mild anemia.