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Florida's Arias Stretches Sampras Before Retiring; Sampras v McEnroe Friday at Boston
Posted on May 2, 2008
Sarasota resident Jimmy Arias led Pete Sampras 5-4 in the opening set when he was forced to retire with a hamstring injury at the senior tennis event in Boston.
"One lunge to the backhand side and I took a little bigger step than my 43-1/2 year old legs would go and I hurt my hamstring," Arias said. "I was playing well and Pete was a little rusty. He was missing a lot of first serves so I had a lot of looks at his second serve. It would have been interesting to see what would have happened."
Sampras took some time to warm up in his debut match at the Outback Champions Tour stop.
"I got off to a slow start," Sampras said. "I felt a little better with my timing and rhythm as we went on. Jimmy was hitting some great passing shots and shots on the run. He was playing really well. He still moves great."
Arias said he hopes to be fit for his match Friday night against Courier.
John McEnroe recorded the upset of the tournament Thursday with a 6-4, 6-4 win over fellow American Jim Courier, the No. 1 player in the Stanford Champions Rankings.
"I'm pleasantly surprised with the win," said McEnroe, who has said this will be his last year on the senior tour. "I went in thinking I had a chance if I played well. We've played a couple of close matches in the past and this surface is better for me."
On Friday's schedule is Wayne Ferreira vs. Aaron Krickstein, MaliVai Washington vs. Mikael Pernfors, Courier vs. Arias, and McEnroe vs. Sampras.
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