Pete Sampras is back
Posted on September 25, 2007 - Filed Under Sports | Leave a Comment
Five years ago when Pete Sampras retired, he was not sure if he would play tennis again. But this week Sampras will be playing a senior tour event. Sampras will be facing Mikael Pernfors on Wednesday to open ‘The Championships’ at The Palisades, the third and final event of the year for Sampras in the Outback Champions Series.
The 36-year-old champ is definitely enjoying his return to tennis. He retired after winning the 2002 U.S. Open. He hardly picked up a racket for three years, swapping his extreme gung ho nature for a role as a full-time dad to his two children.
Not in full pace but Sampras slowly started playing again, playing the past two years in World Team Tennis, an 11-team, month-long circuit in the United States that’s survived for much of the past 33 years.
Sampras has decided to return on a restricted basis this year on the senior circuit formed by former rival Jim Courier. Sampras has committed to play in Boston,
Athens and Charlotte, and has enjoyed it so much he’s agreed to play a handful of exhibitions, including a November match in Malaysia against top-ranked Roger Federer.
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