Former world's no.1 and tennis great Pete Sampras is confident the record of seven Wimbledon Open titles he shared with Roger Federer is safe for a long time. Sampras, who won seven Wimbledon Championships in 90s and early 2000s, thinks no player can ever play as dominant as him and Federer at All-England Club over the next decade.
"I don't know if someone in the next 10 years will be able to win five or six Wimbledons," Sampras told reporters via ESPN during a press conference Monday leading to his induction into the Rogers Cup Hall of Fame in Toronto next month.
Sampras believes it will be reigning champion Andy Murray and world's no. 1 Novak Djokovic who will have great chances of adding more Wimbledon Open championships in the future, though he thinks they aren't dominant enough to win seven titles.
"Roger and myself, our game on grass was so ... dominant," Sampras said. "I think Murray can win some more and Djokovic, but I don't think that dominant game is out there that's going to win it seven times. But I could be wrong."
Sampras also made a comment about Federer's decision to use a racket with a bigger head, adding that it helped him to improve his backhand and the power of his serves.
"I don't know where his head's at, whether he's going to stick with it," said Sampras, who switched to a similar racket after his retirement.
"I wish I would have tried it, at least a little bit on the clay, when I was playing," he said. "It would have helped me a little bit," said Federer, who did not win the French Open during his career.
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