The greatest tennis rivalries: Pete Sampras vs Roger Federer

One of the best comparisons of tennis history can be between the greatest players of all time, Roger Federer and Pete Sampras. Looking at their career records, their career achievements are almost same. The biggest edge that Swiss tennis player Roger Federer has is that, he is still continuing his career where as Sampras got retired in 2002. Wimbledon is the only Grand Slam tournament where Sampras has an edge over Federer, other than that, Federer has either equaled or had broken record in rest of the three tournaments. Although these two players never really got the chance to play against each other that often but Federer by breaking all possible records of Sampras turned it into a rivalry. Over all performances of both the players are somewhat same yet proving the great capabilities of both the players to the maximum. Here is some general information about Pete Sampras and Roger Federer:

	Federer	Sampras
Date of Birth:	August 8, 1981	August 12, 1971
Country:	Switzerland	United States
Career Singles Titles:	63	64
Career Doubles Titles:	7	2
Turned Pro in:	1998	1988
Career Prize Money:	$56.9 million	$43 million
Career record (singles):	717-171	762-222
Highest ranking (singles):	1	1
Career record (doubles):	40-42	64-70
Highest ranking (doubles):	123	27

 

Sampra’s career statistics:

 

Federer‘s career statistics:

Sampras claimed 14 Grand Slam titles whereas Federer claimed 16 Grand Slam titles. In Federer’s 16 titles marathon, he won a French Open title as well which Sampras failed at achieving. One of the noticeable things about this French Open title is that Federer won this title to break the grand slam title record of Sampras. No wonder Federer is known as the King Federer.