Tennis

Sampras, Agassi to meet in exhibition

Published Jun. 29, 2010 1:00 a.m. ET

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Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, John McEnroe and Ivan Lendl will participate in the 2011 BNP Paribas Showdown exhibition matches at Madison Square Garden on Feb. 28.

Sampras will play Agassi in a best-of-three-set match and McEnroe-Lendl will be one set of first to eight games. The four tennis greats won a combined total of 37 Grand Slam titles.

Sampras and Agassi met in three U.S. Open finals in New York, with Sampras winning each time, including his first major title in 1990 and his 14th in 2002 — the last match of his career.

McEnroe won the U.S. Open four times, and Lendl three. They met for the title in 1984, with McEnroe winning, and the next year, when Lendl won.

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