Becker, McEnroe pay tribute to Sampras

Two of Pete Sampras’s fiercest rivals have paid tribute to him at his retirement ceremony.

Two of Pete Sampras’s fiercest rivals have paid tribute to him at his retirement ceremony.

Boris Becker, who won Wimbledon twice as a teenager during the mid-1980s before Sampras began his all-conquering run at the All-England Club, said: “Before you were around, I used to own that place.

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