Ten years ago... on a cold dark night...
With Wimbledon getting off to a typically rainy start today, I ask you… who won the Wimbledon men’s singles tournament ten years ago?
If you said Sampras, well, you’re a fucking idiot, because obviously it's a trick question. From 1993 to 2000, Sampras lost only one match at Wimbledon, and it was in straight sets to the eventual 1996 champion...
Richard Krajicek.
The Dutchman was only the second unseeded winner ever at Wimbledon, after the 17-year-old Becker in 1985. He won one of the great no-name finals in the history of the tournament, defeating MaliVai Washington, the first black to make the final since Arthur Ashe in 1975.
What a final it was. Washington was a nervous mess, seemingly defeated before he ever set foot on Centre Court. Krajicek got only a light workout, breezing to victory at 3, 4, and 3. About the only interesting thing that happened on the entire
afternoon was that a lovely, fleet-footed streaker had herself a scamper in the grass right before the two players took their warm-ups. Check out Krajicek and MaliVai having a moment together.
Krajicek (in thick Dutch accent): I would enjoy having the sex with her.
MaliVai: Motherfucker, you'd bang anything, you ugly and Dutch.
Krajicek: I will make you pay for that nasty thing which you said when we play the tennis.
MaliVai: Whatever.
p.s. Contrary to popular belief, that streaker was not Steffi Graf. The Fraulein was long gone from the All-England grounds, having tended to her business the day before, laying her typical can of whupass on Arantxa Sanchez Vicario in straight sets to win her seventh and final Wimbledon singles crown.
If you said Sampras, well, you’re a fucking idiot, because obviously it's a trick question. From 1993 to 2000, Sampras lost only one match at Wimbledon, and it was in straight sets to the eventual 1996 champion...
Richard Krajicek.
The Dutchman was only the second unseeded winner ever at Wimbledon, after the 17-year-old Becker in 1985. He won one of the great no-name finals in the history of the tournament, defeating MaliVai Washington, the first black to make the final since Arthur Ashe in 1975.
What a final it was. Washington was a nervous mess, seemingly defeated before he ever set foot on Centre Court. Krajicek got only a light workout, breezing to victory at 3, 4, and 3. About the only interesting thing that happened on the entire
afternoon was that a lovely, fleet-footed streaker had herself a scamper in the grass right before the two players took their warm-ups. Check out Krajicek and MaliVai having a moment together. Krajicek (in thick Dutch accent): I would enjoy having the sex with her.
MaliVai: Motherfucker, you'd bang anything, you ugly and Dutch.
Krajicek: I will make you pay for that nasty thing which you said when we play the tennis.
MaliVai: Whatever.
p.s. Contrary to popular belief, that streaker was not Steffi Graf. The Fraulein was long gone from the All-England grounds, having tended to her business the day before, laying her typical can of whupass on Arantxa Sanchez Vicario in straight sets to win her seventh and final Wimbledon singles crown.
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