Sport 10-09-2001 US Open Tennis: Sampras Beaten By Youngster who: Pete Sampras what: Loses to Lleyton Hewitt in US Open men`s final where: NEW YORK when: Yesterday snippet: "For the second year in succession, Pete Sampras was made to look very old and very tired by a 20-year-old upstart in the final of the US Open at Flushing Meadows," reports Alix Ramsay in The Times today. After losing to Russia`s Marat Safin in straight sets in 2000, this year Pistol Pete went down to Australia`s Lleyton Hewitt, 7-6, 6-1, 6-1 in a game described by The Telegraph`s John Parsons as "astonishingly one-sided". "Hewitt, the Aussie whose legs are ten years younger than Sampras` and whose heart is every bit as large, ran his illustrious opponent ragged," says Frank Malley in The Scotsman. "He was unbelievable," said Sampras afterwards. "The kid is so quick. Those legs, I wish I had some of those legs for this old guy." "It is unbelievable," agreed Hewitt. "I have dreamt of this moment. It will take some time for it to sink in." [... more]

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