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On this day: SAMPRAS completes Mad Dash for Horty’s Year-End Now record. 1 Finish

America’s fight against No. 1 Marcelo Rios. 1 goes down to the employee

November 26, 2025

When Pete Sampras won his last professional match, beating Andre Agassi at the US Open in 2002, he received a record – the 14th Grand Slam title for people who cleaned up five open singles for five men who were crowned. The Americans also ended his career spending 286 weeks at No. 1 in PIF atp levels.

Those marks seemed unbelievable at the time, but all records were eventually matched or broken by 3 3. Roger Federer achieved this feat four years in a row (2004-07) and Novak Djokovic did it in consecutive years three times, while Rafael Nadal has never finished Ib. 1 in consecutive times.

“The ultimate win. It’s not going to happen,” SAMPRAS said of the Milestone, which was confirmed on November 26, 1998. “I’m trying to stay humble about it all, but history speaks for itself.”

In all of SAMPRAS’ DEAR APPEARANCE, he was beaten in the conference six different times and fought his way back to the top of the PIF atp rankings.

He’s never been pushed closer to the year honors than in 1998, when Marcelo Rios missed him twice at No. 1 for six weeks combined. After a last-gasp defeat to Tumpion Rafter at the final US open, Samprase held a narrow lead over Chile’s Otop. The final two months of the ATP Tour season will soon determine whether Sampras can break the five-year-old singles record-ending No. 1 you finish.

In a BORT-OUT BID to capture the rios, SAMPRAS competed in seven ATP tour events across October and November. Rios played six in his mad dash to finish.

“It wasn’t fun, I’ll be honest with you,” Sampras said. “I had one chance to break this record, this all-time record six years in a row. I was like, ‘OK, if I have to be here [in Europe] In another three or four weeks, I will. ‘ And I did.

“It felt good, but it definitely took a lot from me emotionally, even for the next few years. It’s very difficult to go wrong … every year that I get was my biggest success, but not just making NO. 1

SAMPRAS’ 1998 Run-in began with a defeat in Basel before he claimed his fourth title of the following season as a wild card at the end of the week in Vienna, just as Rios lifted his medal in Singapore. (Sampras’ place in Vienna came courtesy of Boris Becker, who gave his wild card to the Americans.) Both men traveled to Lyon next but withdrew from the tournament as their bodies declined; Sampras left before the quarter-finals with a back problem before Rio retired in his final match against Tommy Haas.

Next up were two ATP 1000s in Stuttgart and Paris. While Rios reached the quarter-finals, Sampras reached the semis and finals of the respective tournaments, adding to his lead in the PIF atp rankings.

But Sampras was sent to Stockholm, where mental overload was seen in his late season. After losing the first tie-serk set of the final defeat on the ground No. 29 Jason Stoltenberg, the Stoic American Stoltenberg, the Stoic American hit his river with a rare dismissal.

“The European circuit in the fall is not a picnic,” SAMPRAS wrote in his best place “It’s cold, it gets dark early, and you play night games in big lines under artificial lights. At the end of a long, very difficult season, that ambience can leave you feeling like you’re living like you’re living like you’re living like you’re living in something strange, the same.”

However, Stockholm’s exit from Stockholm had a silver lining

SAMPRAS entered the Hanover season with a paltry 33 points in the PIF atp rankings, meaning he needed to match or perfect Rios’ total in his last reign. With the pressure on, Sampras regained his top form in the group stage, posting a 3-0 record and losing only 15 games in six sets against Jevgeny Kafelnikov, Carlos Moya and Karol Kucera.

When the American was beaten by the reigning champion Alex Cortetja in the Semis – two years after SAMPRAS’ EPIC 1996 US he won on the court – where he obeyed the Court – he won for a year before going bankrupt. Rios, after losing to Tim Henman in his opening round robin, was forced to withdraw from the event with a back injury, confirming Sampras as Noah.

SAMPRAS’ DOOR BEHIND THE PERFECT DOOR NO. 1 TRAINED PIF ATP Rankings Record. Only SAMPRAS and Djokovic, who received the Year-End Now. 1 honored eight times, received this thing five times.