Head to head
Rivalry summary
Pete Sampras and Cedric Pioline met 9 times on the ATP tour between 1990 and 1999. Pete Sampras leads the head-to-head 9–0 against Cedric Pioline. By surface, Sampras leads 2–0 on clay; Sampras leads 2–0 on grass; Sampras leads 4–0 on carpet. They contested 4 finals, including 2 Grand Slam finals, with Sampras winning 4 of them.
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Hard
0
2
Clay
0
2
Grass
0
4
Carpet
0
Pete Sampras's wins on the left · Cedric Pioline's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (9)
| 1999 | World Team Cup | Clay | RR | Pete Sampras | 7-5 6-4 |
| 1997 | Wimbledon | Grass | F | Pete Sampras | 6-4 6-2 6-4 |
| 1996 | Wimbledon | Grass | R16 | Pete Sampras | 6-4 6-4 6-2 |
| 1994 | World Team Cup | Clay | RR | Pete Sampras | 6-3 7-6(3) |
| 1993 | Antwerp | Carpet | SF | Pete Sampras | 4-6 7-5 6-1 |
| 1993 | Lyon | Carpet | F | Pete Sampras | 7-6(5) 1-6 7-5 |
| 1993 | US Open | Hard | F | Pete Sampras | 6-4 6-4 6-3 |
| 1992 | Lyon | Carpet | F | Pete Sampras | 6-4 6-2 |
| 1990 | Wembley | Carpet | R32 | Pete Sampras | 6-2 4-6 6-3 |
Methodology
Head-to-head totals and surface splits exclude walkovers (no match was played), which follows ATP convention — walkover meetings still appear in the match list. The momentum chart plots the running lead across all counted meetings, oldest to newest.