Court Domination.

Pete Sampras practically owned Wimbledon during the 1990s. Sampras not only won six Wimbledon trophies (1993-1995, 1997-1999), he also won the Australian Open (1994, 1997) and U.S. Open (1990, 1993, 1995, 1996). Sports Illustrated called him the best male tennis player of the century, edging out Bill Tilden, whose glory years were in the 1920s. At the end of the decade Sampras had won sixty-one career titles and spent more weeks as the top-ranked player than anyone in history. The fortunes of other Americans playing professional tennis were much more erratic.