Yzaga v Sampras
ATP Tour career
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Pete Sampras takes it, 11–3 on categories
Sampras wins on titles. Yzaga’s case rests on return points won %, but it isn’t enough to swing it. ATP Tour career: Yzaga 444 matches, Sampras 961 matches.
- Sampras has 65 titles (one every 12.5 matches) to Yzaga’s 8 titles (one every 25 matches).
- Sampras has the better first-serve points won %: 81 to Yzaga’s 65.6.
- Sampras averages 9.8 aces a match to Yzaga’s 1.9 — 5.1 times as many.
- Winners’ edge: Sampras’s team won 78%, Yzaga’s team won 54% of the matches they played.
- Longevity: Sampras has 961 matches across 15 seasons, Yzaga 444 in 12 — the averages matter more than the totals here.
- Not every stat was recorded for every match (titles, aces): those averages use only the games that logged them.
Built only from games in our stats database. A read of the numbers, not a tip.
Tale of the tape
Per game. Totals and best single game underneath.
- 0.08 total · best 1Titlesper game0.165 total · best 1
- –Grand Slam titlesper game0.014 total · best 1
- 59.5First serve in %59.5
- 65.6First-serve points won %81.0
- 56.8Break points saved %64.5
- 40.2Return points won %38.2
- 1.9446 total · best 13
Head to head
37 matches
since 19884
since 19884
- Hard · 4 matchesYzaga 2Sampras 2
- Clay · 2 matchesYzaga 1Sampras 1
- Carpet · 1 matchYzaga 0Sampras 1
- Grand Slams · 4 matchesYzaga 2Sampras 2
Last meetings
- 28 Aug 1995 · US Open · Round of 64 · HardSampras won 6-1 6-4 6-3
- 6 Dec 1994 · Grand Slam Cup · Round of 16 · CarpetSampras won 6-2 6-4
- 29 Aug 1994 · US Open · Round of 16 · HardYzaga won 3-6 6-3 4-6 7-6(4) 7-5
- 27 July 1992 · Barcelona Olympics · Round of 32 · ClaySampras won 6-3 6-0 3-6 6-1
- 28 Aug 1989 · US Open · Round of 32 · HardSampras won 4-6 6-4 6-3 6-2
- 1 May 1989 · Forest Hills · Round of 64 · ClayYzaga won 7-6 6-1
- 29 Aug 1988 · US Open · Round of 128 · HardYzaga won
Last 10 games
Titles, oldest to newest.
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