WITH an awesome display of serving power, Pete Sampras won the battle for supremacy of the tennis world by defeating top-ranked Andre Agassi in the US Open final.
Then, with an announcement that will leave his rivals quaking, Sampras, 24, vowed he could get even better.
'I still feel I can improve. I don't think there will be a day when I'm satisfied with my tennis. I always want to get better,' said the American after winning his third US Open title.
The rankings computer still has Agassi as No 1. But the good friends and great rivals agreed that Grand Slam titles really decide who is the best.
'If you win two of the majors, there is a strong possibility that you should be No 1,' Sampras said after his 6-4, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 victory over the top seed and defending champion.
'When you look back at the greatest players we look at the number of Grand Slams they have won.' Becoming only the fourth player in history to collect three US Open and three Wimbledon titles and the seventh to win both in the same year put Sampras in such exalted company as John McEnroe, Bill Tilden and his hero, Rod Laver.
