Pete Sampras’ Trophies Stolen

The LA Times reports: Police have suggested a public appeal might help recover the stolen items.

[The thieves stole] trophies for winning 64 tour tournaments, and finalist hardware from 24 others. It includes what he was presented for winning five season-ending ATP World Tour titles, for being on two Davis Cup winners, and for taking 11 ATP Masters event titles. It includes an Olympic ring, seven ESPYs and six trophies awarded to the player who was No. 1 in the year-end rankings. Sampras, now 39, was that from 1993 to ’98.

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Sampras said he never considered that his things wouldn’t be safe.

“I was like, ‘What?'” he said. “I thought there were security cameras. I thought these things were locked up tight. I was shocked.

The tennis star has discovered the hard way a storage provider may have weak or even no security.

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