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Sampras, Peter ("Pete")
(b. 12 August 1971 in Washington, D.C.), tennis player who, at age nineteen, was the youngest player to win the U.S. Open men's singles championship.
After capturing his seventh Wimbledon singles title in 2000, Sampras became the first man to win thirteen Grand Slam championship titles.
Sampras was one of four children of Soterios ("Sam") Sampras, an aerospace engineer, and Georgia Vroustouris Sampras, a homemaker.
When Sampras was seven years old, his family moved to Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
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Sampras's tennis career began in the warm southern California climate under the guidance of his father and his first coach, Pete Fisher, a pediatrician who was not a very good tennis player himself but knew how the game should be played.
Under Fisher, Sampras not only developed his tennis skills but also began to envision his career as a professional player. From 1980 to 1984, Sampras rose rapidly in the junior rankings, becoming one of world's top