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Sports
THE BATTALION
RIALS AND TRIUMPH
Sampras wins seventh Wimbledon and sets Grand Slam record
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — By the dying light, Pete
Sampras served himself two huge pieces of history Sunday —
a record-tying seventh Wimbledon and a 13th Grand Slam title
that made him king of the slams.
Twinkling flashbulbs lit up Centre Court like fireworks in
the night when Sampras kissed the trophy once again, his eyes
glistening from the tears he had shed moments earlier after he
whacked his final service winner to beat Patrick Rafter 6-7 (10),
7-6(5), 6-4, 6-2.
Rarely emotional on court, Sampras showed how much this
victory meant to him as he bent over in tears after the final
point, then climbed up into the stands in a tearful embrace with
his mother and father, watching him win a Grand Slam in per
son for the first time.
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coming back, on and off, on and
off. It's just amazing how it all
worked out."
"I wanted them to be a part of it," the 28-year-old Sampras
said. "As much as I like to say I'm going to be back here every
year, there's no guarantees. Win or lose today, I was going to
invite them here. I'm glad they hopped on the plane and
made the trip."
Sam and Georgia Sampras flew in from Southern Califor
nia only the day before and sat high above Centre Court to
watch their son pass Roy Emerson for the most Grand Slam
championships and tie Willie Renshaw, a player in the 1880s,
for the most Wimbledon titles.
"Time will tell if it will be broken," Sampras said of the
Grand Slam record. "I think in the modern game, it could be
difficult. It's a lot of commitment, a lot of good playing at big
times. It’s possible. I mean, the next person might be 8 years
old,hitting at a park somewhere around the world."
Sampras has won 28 straight matches at Wimbledon, ex
tending his mark there to 53-1 over the past eight years.
"This is the greatest player ever at Wimbledon," former
three-time champion John McEnroe said. "This guy's not
someone you can put anyone up against, nobody. No one has
ever come close to Pete."
Sampras is only the sixth player in history to win Wimble
don four straight years. The last to do it was Bjorn Borg, who
won five straight from 1976-80.
No Wimbledon title had ever come with more pain and dif
ficulty than Sampras suffered in this one, dealing with acute
tendonitis above his left ankle from the second round on. He
could not practice between matches and could not warm up
before them until the final. No final took longer to win or end
ed later than this one with four hours of rain delaying tine start
and interrupting play twice.
It ended at 8:57 p.m., after 3 hours, 2 minutes of actual play
on a Centre Court that has no lights, and they could not have
played much longer. If Rafter, the two-time U.S. Open chanj-
pion, had won the fourth set, they would have had to return
on Monday.
"It was difficult in the end," Sampras said. "We only had
maybe 10 minutes left’ to playing. I think we both knew by 9
o'clock they were going to call it. It would have been a tough
night of sleep.
"It's not easy to play out there under these conditions. The
nerves, the emotional roller coaster we both went through to
day, coming back, on and off, on and off. It's just amazing how
it all worked out. It really is amazing how this tournament just
panned out for me. I didn't really feel like I was going to win
here. I felt I was struggling."
Sampras had said before the match that as long as his right
arm held up, he would be a threat. It held up fine. Rafter could
not return Sampras' blur of serves in the afternoon, and he
surely could not return them in the fading light. Sampras
served 27 aces at up to 133 mph, and had 46 more unreturned
serves as he averaged an incredible 123 mph
on first serves.
Sampras faced only two break points and
won once more without yielding a single
game on his serve. Rafter could not break him
in 21 service games, just as Boris Becker could
. not break him in 19 in 1995. In his seven title
matches, Sampras has dropped serve only
four times in 131 games.
The only time Sampras buckled was in the
first-set tiebreaker. He had lost only four
points on serve in the first set, three of them
on double-faults, and double-faults came back
to haunt in the tiebreaker. He hit one to fall be
hind 10-9, saved that set-point, but then lost
the set with his fifth double-fault.
"We all choke," said Sampras, who wound
up with 12 double-faults. "No matter who you
are, you just get in the heat of the moment. The
title could be won or lost in a matter of a cou
ple of shots. I really felt it slipping away. 1 felt
like I was outplaying him for the first set. I did
n't get the break. I was outplaying him a little
bit in the second. Comes down to a tiebreak
er, anything can happen. Just roll the dice."
They rolled the dice in the second-set
tiebreaker, and this time Rafter threw snake
eyes. Serving with a 4-1 lead, he netted a vol
ley, double-faulted, then netted a forehand to
let Sampras tie it. Sampras then smacked a ser
vice winner and won his fifth straight point
with a stunning inside-out forehand cross
court that zipped past Rafter. Sampras punc
tuated the moment with a big uppercut in the
air, his first demonstration of emotion in the
match, and two points later he put the set
away with a solid volley.
Right there, the match was virtually won.
"There's a lot of nerves out there," Sampras said. "We both
were feeling it. I lost my nerve in the first set. He lost his nerve
4-1 in the second breaker. ... Somehow I got through that
tiebreaker. From a matter of feeling like I was going to lose the
match, I felt like I was going to win the match within two min
utes. That's grass court tennis."
Rafter admitted the tension got to him in that tiebreaker.
"I did get a little bit tight," he said. "It was an opportunity
for me to go up two sets to love. From there it's a very tough
position, as Pete knows, to come back from that. But that's
what happens when you get tight."
When Sampras broke Rafter for the first time for a 3-2 lead
in the third set, the Australian bounced his racket on its head
twice as he headed for his chair. He had the look of a man star
ing at defeat, even if the end was more than an hour away. As
the light faded, so did Rafter, going down another break, and
going down hard.
"I wasn't getting his serve back anyway," Rafter said. "I
didn't really care if it was midnight, really. When you're down
5-2 in the third, double break, mate, it's sort of hard work be
ing out there. Mentally, I sort of had done my bolt."
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Twelve dead in soccer
stampede in Zimbabwe
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Twelve
people died in a soccer stampede, set off
when police fired tear gas at bottle-throw
ing fans during a World Cup qualifier Sun
day between Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Players from both teams choked and
writhed on the field, covering their faces
as tear gas spread through the stadium.
The 12 victims were dead on arrival,
Davison Sadza, head of the Parirenyatwa
hospital, told state radio.
Four stampede victims were in critical
condition and many others were injured,
he said.
A doctor said most of the deaths were
from internal injures consistent with be
ing crushed. *
Anxious relatives waiting for news
gathered outside the hospital’s emer
gency ward.
Fans hurled bottles and other items
onto the field after South Africa scored its
second goal in the 84th minute, giving the
visitors a 2-0 lead.
Police then fired tear gas at the crowd
of more than 50,000.
A stampede broke out as the fans
scrambled to leave National Sports Sta
dium. A fire hydrant was torn from its
mountings, spraying water over fleeing
fans.
Stadium officials called the police re
sponse a “total overreaction,” the South
African Press Association reported.
The game was called off with 10 min
utes left, but South Africa’s 2-0 victory
over Zimbabwe was ruled official.
This marked the fourth time in four
years there were crowd deaths at a World
Cup qualifier.
Nine were crushed during a stampede
at in Zambia in 1996.
At least 78 were killed in a stampede
that October at Guatemala City, and at
least three died this past April 23 in
Liberia in an overcrowded stadium.
Among the players in Sunday’s game
were three who play for English clubs —
Quinton Fortune and Eric Tinkler of South
Africa and Peter Ndlovu of Zimbabwe.
The violence came three days after
South Africa was denied in its bid to be
come the first African country to hold the
World Cup. Germany was awarded the
2006 tournament in a 12-11 vote by soc
cer’s ruling body.
South Africa made it to the first round
of the 1998 World Cup and placed third
in this year’s African Nations Cup.
Zimbabwe has never qualified for the
World Cup and did not qualify for this
year’s African Nations Cup.
The game was one of eight World Cup
qualifiers, all in Africa, on Sunday.
In April, rioting fans in Kenya forced of
ficials to abandon a World Cup qualifier
between Kenya and Malawi.
Fans ripped out stadium seats and lit
tered the field with debris. The 0-0 tie was
declared the official score.
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Head over heels
Lifeguard Stephen Levall of Hurst, Texas takes to the water during a water rescue relay at the
Texas Super Guard Contest at Adamson Lagoon in College Station on Saturday. Lifeguarding
teams from all parts of the state came out to compete in various timed events and real-life
rescue scenarios.
Injuries hurting All-Star game lineup
ATLANTA (AP) — The best place to find baseball's top
All-Stars this week is the trainer's room.
Ken Griffey Jr., Barry Bonds, Cal Ripken and Greg
Maddux became the latest casualties Sunday, and there
was a chance Mike Piazza would join them.
Mark McGwire, Pedro Martinez, Alex Rodriguez and
Manny Ramirez already were scratched from Tuesday
night's game at Turner Field because of injuries.
All of a sudden, a list of the dropouts seems more im
posing than anything the AL and NL actually will trot out.
"We were looking at who we could've had if every
body was healthy, and it looked like it could've been one
of the best All-Star lineups of all-time," said Atlanta third
baseman Chipper Jones, a starter. "It's disappointing."
So much for a power-packed, middle of the order for
the NL minus starters McGwire, Bonds and Griffey, the
top three home run hitters in the league.
"They've been bugging me for a lineup the last few
days," safid NL manager Bobby Cox of the Braves, "but I
just don't know who I can provide right now."
Cincinnati pitcher Danny Graves, Arizona outfielder
Steve Finley, Baltimore shortstop Mike Bordick and Toron
to third baseman Tony Batista are among the replacements
coming to play.
Chicago White Sox slugger Frank Thomas, still upset
that he was left off the American League roster, is not.
"I've got plans and I'm not changing them for no
body," Thomas said before Sunday's game against the
Cubs at Wrigley Field.
Injuries and All-Star games are not strangers.
Tony Gwynn and Jose Canseco missed last year at Fen
way Park and, when the game was previously held in At
lanta in 1972, five players originally picked were absent:
Luis Aparicio, Amos Otis, Freddie Patek, Gary Nolan and
Joe Coleman.
Piazza's status was in doubt after he sustained a con
cussion Saturday night when hit in the helmet by Roger
Clemens' fastball.
The catcher, voted to start, was hospitalized after the
beaning in the New York Mets' game at Yankee Stadium.
Griffey will be absent because of a sore right knee.
He homered twice and drove in a career-high eight
runs Saturday for Cincinnati, and started again Sunday
and made a nice running catch in center field against
Cleveland. '
Griffey will take part in the home run derby Monday
in Atlanta, defending the crown he won last summer.
"We think it's in the best interests for the baseball team
that he not play, not run the bases, not play the outfield,
take the three days off," Reds general manager Jim Bow
den said. "We're in a pennant race, and he's an important
part of this team and it's about winning games."
Ripken's streak of 16 straight All-Star starts will come
to an end. The Baltimore third baseman is on the disabled
list because of a back injury, but baseball rules would have
allowed him to take part Tuesday night.
Bonds missed his eighth straight start Sunday with a
hairline fracture on the tip of his right thumb.
The San Francisco outfielder struck out as a pinch-hit
ter Saturday, and reported swelling after the game.
Bonds will make the trip to Turner Field.
"I'm going to honor the fans because they voted me
in," Bonds said. "After that. I'll wave good-bye. It's bet
ter than sitting at home and doing nothing anyway."
Maddux, one of five Braves on the NL roster, was
scratched from his start Sunday at Boston because of a
sore right shoulder. He will not attend the festivities.
McGwire leads the majors with 30 home runs, but is
out of the St. Louis lineup because of knee tendonitis.
Rodriguez, among the AL leaders in several offensive
categories, was knocked out of the game by a concussion.
The Seattle shortstop tried to break up a double play Fri
day night and took a knee to head from Los Angeles short
stop Alex Cora.
Martinez, whose 1.44 ERA is the best in the majors, is
out of the Boston rotation with an injured muscle in his
side. He is expected to be in uniform in Atlanta, however.
Ramirez, elected to start in the AL outfield, has been
on the disabled list for Cleveland since May 30 with a
hamstring injury.*