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The 2001 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All ... Pete Sampras (fourth round, lost to Roger Federer) Andre Agassi ...
This was the first major tournament at which Federer was seeded. Sampras was attempting to equal Björn Borg's record of five consecutive Wimbledon titles (which Federer would himself achieve in 2007). [4] This was the year when Wimbledon expanded from 16 to 32 seeds.
During the Open Era, only Borg (1978–81 French Open and 1976–80 Wimbledon), Sampras (1997–2000 Wimbledon), Federer (2003–07 Wimbledon and 2004–08 US Open), Rafael Nadal (2005–08 French Open, 2010–14 French Open and 2017–20 French Open) and Djokovic (2018–2022 Wimbledon) have won at least one Grand Slam tournament four ...
Roger Federer is the only player in history, in both the Amateur and Open Eras, to reach the Wimbledon Gentlemen's Singles Final twelve times. For 9 consecutive years, from 1992 to 2000, Pete Sampras reached the Wimbledon final winning 8 titles out of 9 [not in 1996], an open era record.
Sampras is 7–0 in Wimbledon finals and is the only male player to win 3 or more consecutive Wimbledon titles twice in his career (1993–1995, 1997–2000). He was the first men's player to win 14 major singles titles.
Federer has won 20 Grand Slam men's singles titles, the third most in history behind Nadal and Djokovic. Federer broke the previous all-time record held by Pete Sampras (14) in 2009 before Nadal and Djokovic surpassed him in 2022. Federer is one of 3 players who won all 4 Grand Slams and the Year-end Championship in their career.
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The Agassi–Sampras rivalry was a tennis rivalry ... at the 2001 US Open quarter-final, Sampras won with the ... Wimbledon Grand Slam Grass Final Sampras 6–3, 6 ...