Origin
Open career →Tennis’s living graph
Bridges Across
Eras
Two players do not need to have shared a court for their stories to be connected. Find the shortest chain of head-to-head meetings between them.
Shortest path found
Filip Jeff Planinsek
reaches
Pete Sampras
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10September 12, 2025View Filip Jeff Planinsek × Franco Roncadelli →02 BridgeOpen career →Franco Roncadelli
1 meeting01January 6, 2020View Franco Roncadelli × Roberto Bautista Agut →03 BridgeOpen career →Roberto Bautista Agut
1 meeting01June 16, 2013View Roberto Bautista Agut × Xavier Malisse →04 BridgeOpen career →Xavier Malisse
2 meetings02February 23, 1998 — July 23, 2001View Xavier Malisse × Pete Sampras →05 DestinationOpen career →Pete Sampras
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginFilip Jeff Planinsek
- BridgeFranco Roncadelli
- BridgeRoberto Bautista Agut
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginFilip Jeff Planinsek
- BridgeFranco Roncadelli
- BridgeRoberto Bautista Agut
- BridgeRoger Federer
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginFilip Jeff Planinsek
- BridgeFranco Roncadelli
- BridgeRoberto Bautista Agut
- BridgePaul Henri Mathieu
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginFilip Jeff Planinsek
- BridgeFranco Roncadelli
- BridgeRoberto Bautista Agut
- BridgeMikhail Youzhny
- DestinationPete Sampras
How we calculate it
A search from both sides of history.
The portal traverses the head-to-head graph from both careers at the same time and stops at the first proven minimum distance. When a period is selected, only matches inside that window create links; walkovers never create connections.
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