Pete Sampras seems to be invincible at the moment.
That's what his old rival, Andre Agassi, found out when he caught him on a near-perfect day Friday at the Eurocard Open.Sampras beat Agassi 6-4, 6-1 at the $2.2 million tournament in just 57 minutes, winning his third straight match between the two.
"No matter what I tried, everything went in," Sampras said. "These are the days you dream of. To play all the way through like that - I can't think of when that's happened."
The world's No. 1 player extended his year's best winning streak to 20 matches, ran his record against Agassi to 11-8 and remains untested at an event that started with 29 of the world's top 30 players in the field.
Sampras next faces Jan Siemerink in today's semifinals. The unseeded Dutchman upset Croatia's Goran Ivanisevic 6-3, 7-6 (7-4).
Sampras was not the only player in top form Friday. Boris Becker yielded only six points on his serve in beating Sweden's Magnus Gustafsson 6-2, 6-2.
Becker plays Michael Chang in the other semifinal. Chang, ranked No. 2, won a baseline duel with Chile's Marcelo Rios 6-4, 6-3.