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Pete Sampras at home in Thousand Oaks, Calif., on Friday, June 26, 2009. Sampras left professional tennis in 2003, one year after his 14th major singles title. At first, he expected his record to last. Sampras could receive an urgent phone call some time in the next few days from an All England Club official, perhaps, or maybe a network executive hoping to lure him to London for the Wimbledon men's final should Roger Federer grace it. (Ann Johansson/The New York Times)