Daily Bagel: Pete Sampras says Roger Federer is a total prankster

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Daily Bagel: Pete Sampras says Roger Federer is a total prankster
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Roger Federer hosts Pete Sampras for Thanksgiving dinner in Malaysia in 2007. (Getty Images handout/Getty Images)

The Daily Bagel is your dose of the interesting reporting, writing and quipping from around the Internet.

• Photo: Roger Federer and Pete Sampras have Thanksgiving dinner in Malaysia in 2007. (Getty Images)

Pete Sampras says Roger Federer is a total prankster.

We were travelling in Asia in 2007 on an exhibition tour and I thought to myself, ‘this guy is like he’s in high school’. I’m slightly embarrassed to be telling you this but he would come up and blow in your ear or scream in your ear. He did it to his trainer a few times, and I thought they looked like a couple of kids from high school. That’s sort of a silly story, but it tells you about his light-hearted attitude. He loves talking and laughing. He’s just a down-to-earth guy.

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Have a wonderful Thanksgiving, everyone


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COURTNEY NGUYEN

Contributor, SI.com Nguyen is a freelance writer for SI.com, providing full coverage of professional tennis both on and off the court. Her content has become a must-read for fans and insiders to stay up-to-date with a sport that rarely rests. She has appeared on radio and TV talk shows all over the world and is one of the co-hosts of No Challenges Remaining, a weekly podcast available on iTunes. Nguyen graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 1999 and received a law degree from the University of California, Davis in 2002. She lives in the Bay Area.