"The coach is a little different, and there's a little different excitement," Trimble said.
Certainly, there has been a very different excitement attached to the Royal in the following decades, with the importation of world-class talents such as Sylvie Guillem, Tamara Rojo, Alina Cojocaru and Marianela Nuñez alongside British ballerinas such as Bussell and Sarah Wildor.
While he and Sampras, 29, have drawn confidence from their perseverance as much as their success, their opponents enter their first Grand Slam semifinal with a different sense: excitement and innocence, with both of them hoping to begin their legacies.
"I have achieved the goal that I set out to do now, and there's a wide world out there with lots of opportunities and different pressure and different excitement.
"It was exciting when I was in jail," he says, "but this is a different kind of excitement".
"It was exciting when I was in jail," he jokes, "but this is a different kind of excitement".
"People are looking for a different level of excitement.
"With the revivals, there's a different kind of excitement," said Rashaun Mitchell, a Cunningham dancer since 2004.
But severe winter storms, the worst to hit the Phoenix area in decades, provided a different sort of excitement, far less welcome, at the weeklong sales marathon this year.
"As a German driver, you naturally have a different sense of excitement when you arrive at the German Grand Prix and know that all the spectators in the grandstands are supporting you.
